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Rages of Sin

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands | Established. Jan 01, 2009 | SELF

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands | SELF
Established on Jan, 2009
Band Metal Death Metal

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"Divergence - Album review"

Rages of Sin hail from The Hauge in Holland and play a style of death/thrash metal. Inspired by the Swedish melodic death metal scene, bands like Hypocrisy, Opeth and Soilwork. Their new album, Divergence will be released on the 25th April 2020.

With a roar, a blast of guitars and drums, Rages of Sin bring the intensity as only death metal can do. Divergence is 8 tracks long and doesn’t hold back for even a second, especially with the opening heavy gambit of Defeasance. A very feral start.

It’s a shift in tone with cleaner singing and a chunky set of riffs for Deference, followed by a surprisingly expansive number in Defiance. A track that comes in at over 10 minutes long and goes through all the highs and lows of what melodic death metal should be. Painfully sharp riffs, thumping percussion, a wide array of hooks, soloing that buoys the soul… it has got everything.

So much so that it takes a moment to shift the mind back towards Rages of Sin’s faster and more intense jabs. Dalliance, Derivance and Deliverance all poking and prodding away with purpose, until you’re ready to scream and shout in reply.

It’s very effective and very striking metal.

Culminating in the high point of Deviance, a track where the guitars just scream and the drums put the exclamation point on everything. Before Descendants’ very epic guitar intro gives way to glorious clean singing and a hyper solo to end a top shelf track and album. - Games, Brrraaains & a Headbanging Life


"Un-Dutch greatness"

Tot voor kort was Rages Of Sin het “best kept secret” van Den Haag en omstreken, maar daar gaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk verandering in komen met hun in eigen beheer uitgebrachte full-length ‘Divergence’. En dat gun ik ze. Deze CD kan, na een decennium keihard rocken als kroon op het werk gezien van dit viertal (Floris Gijzenij / gitaar en vocalen, Steve Boender / gitaar, Ron van Dijk / basgitaar en Tim Zuidema / drums). De voortekenen logen er al niet om want hun anderhalf jaar geleden uitgekomen MCD ‘The Gospel Of…’ was al zeer goed te verhapstukken en de vele liveshows die ik in de regio mocht aanschouwen waren stuk voor stuk baggervet. Het woord “divergence” of te wel “divergentie” heeft veel betekenissen, maar ik interpreteer het als “afwijking” of “discrepantie” want dit is precies zoals je de muziek van Rages Of Sin kunt afficheren.

Ben je namelijk op zoek naar dertien in een dozijn death metal ben je namelijk aan het verkeerde adres met ‘Divergence’. De R.O.S.-leden beheersen hun instrumentarium uitstekend en Gijzenij gromt, kreunt, fluistert en schreeuwt als een getormenteerd speenvarken alsof het een lieve lust is. Een diversiteit van stijlen en melodieën behoort tot het muzikale palet van R.O.S., zonder maar enig moment de agressiviteit uit het oog te verliezen. De CD, die overigens in een prachtige digi-pack huist, heeft minimaal een dozijn luisterbeurten nodig voordat al het moois zich begint te ontrafelen, maar elke inspanning om Rages Of Sin te doorgronden werpt echter zijn vruchten af. Dit is een on-Nederlands goede CD, die in de smaak zal vallen bij iedereen die houdt van allerhande Zweedse metalstijlen variërend van mierzoet tot fucking brutaal. - Arrow Lords of Metal


Discography

2018 - The Gospel Of... (4 track EP)
2020 - Divergence (8 track concept album)

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From The Hague, Holland hails RAGES OF SIN (R.O.S.), a deathrash act that was established back in 2009. The first few years of the band’s existence the Dutchies have tried to simply capture what excites them about song writing, performing and used their early days to create songs that RA(n)GE from thrash metal riffing to pounding death metal and some acoustic interferences that every now and then can turn progressive.

The individual band members are highly inspired by Sweden’s melodic death metal sound which is represented by bands such as Hypocrisy, Opeth and Soilwork. RAGES OF SIN however are not copycatting aforementioned acts, rather applying some of their roots and principles to their hell-bent music. Lyrically, the quartet derives their inspiration from contemporary SINners, focussing on the “WTF-factor" of what people can do to each other and their offspring. Truth really seems to be stranger than fiction...

RAGES OF SIN debuted with a self-titled self-released four track demo CD in 2010 which allowed the band to play dozens of shows in The Netherlands and abroad (Belgium, Germany and Switzerland). R.O.S. were the opening act at the (one time only) metal stage on 2015’s Schollenpop festival which allowed the RAGERS to play in front of 10.000 metal fans.

In 2018, another 4-track EP ‘The Gospel Of…’ was self-released by the band, but distributed by Pt78 Records.

2019 heralded a new creative phase, culminating in 2020 with the ambitious full length concept album 'DIVERGENCE'. With an overall theme of things not being as they seem, reviews were unanimously positive about the sheer musical variety on the album, adding 'Progressive' to the ever growing list of R.O.S. style descriptors.

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