(Andy Synn finds a paradoxical abundance of weirdness and creativity in the new album from Scarcity)
Very occasionally someone will ask us why we don’t cover more of the bigger, more mainstream-friendly, names in Metal. And our response to this is generally two-fold.
Firstly, it’s not like those sorts of acts actually need our attention or our endorsement, since they already get more than enough of that from other, slightly less discriminatory, outlets.
Secondly… well, after a certain point they all just kind of sound the same (although you could also say that about the annual wave of OSDM revivalists?), so it just doesn’t really seem worth us expending time and effort to cover a bunch of bands – all following the same trends and writing to the same formula – who we don’t really like, just for the clicks.
That being said, there are times when a band steps up with a new twist on a classic recipe which seems so obviously destined for massive success and acclaim that we can’t help but be caught up in all the hype along with everyone else.
Scarcity, however, are not that band.
