365 Days of Metal: A Musical Anagram

Day 35

El Scar - God's In His Heaven, All's Right With The World

Band Origin: Brighton, UK
Genre: Progressive / Ambient / Groove Metal
Label: Unsigned
Running Time: 33 minutes
Release Date: April 20, 2011

Best Part: Title Track + Outro

Favorite Tracks: God's In His Heaven, All's Right With The World, Memories Within My Palm, and Fumbling Towards Kindness

Grade: 3.5

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God's In His Heaven, All's Right With The World in 20 words or less:

Another groovy and heavy release with crisper sound quality from another homebrew solo artist in the UK.

The Band:

Marc Le Cras is a young solo musician our of Brighton who has released a full-length record and two extended-plays, which he has produced himself under the name El Scar - an anagram, if it wasn't blazingly obvious already. Blending ambient with progressive and groove metal, Le Cras continues to develop his with each new release. As with many other solo musicians incorporating these styles, El Scar has found a following among other solo artists in the Djent community.

El Scar's other releases include: The Human Instrumentality Project (2010), and MAGI (2010)

Jay's Take on God's In His Heaven, All's Right With The World:

I first came across Marc Le Cras' work early last year when he released The Human Instrumentality Project. Since then he has released two more EP's, including this one in the late Spring. Still holding onto the same core sound that he worked from on his first record, Le Cras continues to add in new subtle elements with each release, and improves on the homebrew production quality of his recordings. He uses a progressive style involving repetition of heavy riffs and timed changes in pace. Each of his recordings have a groovy feel to them, with that subtle ambient texture in the background weaving everything together into a tight, yet heavy cohesive unit. God's In His Heaven, All's Right With The World also incorporates more slow, melodic passages than in the majority of his past work including the soft piano laced intro track, and the outro track Memories Within My Palm. Although his music did previously focus more on the heavy side, the melodic passages help to string along the progression in each track where they are present, and makes the record easily listenable when you're just lounging around, or need something groovy to draw energy from.

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- J