
Ministry of Metal Weekly Pick: Winds of Plague
Genre: Deathcore
Favorite Track: Anthem of the Apocalypse
Welcome once again headbangers, metalheads, thrashers, horn throwers, and pit stompers. This week's pick is the symphonic deathcore band Winds of Plague. They're a bit like Bleeding Through in that both bands have a female keyboard player but much more brutal. They vary from straight up thrash riffs to all out death dirges...sometimes within the same song.
Beneath the power chords and growls there is a constant undertone of keyboard/synth. It isn't too obtrusive and adds an epic quality to the music along the same lines of the soundtrack from Lord of the Rings. If you like pure metalcore/death then this might not be for you. The symphonic elments are subtle but still lend to a very distinct sound. I appreciate the deviation from the same old same old but some might not.
Stay tuned for next week's pick and keep those mutha fuckin' horns up.


