Seek Misery ‘Everyone You Love Will Leave’

The fog that engulfs you, the coldness in the air burning your skin, the ominous realisation that in this place, you’re alone. No one is coming to save you from what horrors awaits, the darkness that is coming directly for you.

This could easily be a scene from the Silent Hill computer games yet it’s the feeling throughout Seek Misery’s debut album Everyone You Love Will Leave You. A feeling vocalist Ryan Dennis takes directly from the classic game series.

For how do you describe depression, how do you convey feelings that stretch across betrayal, hurt, anguish from loved ones be it partners or family? Adelaide’s Seek Misery bottle that into ten songs of loss, destruction, and other delusions of a fucked-up head.

Written and recorded in house, the four piece firmly fit into a deathcore fury. Crushing heaving slugging riffs, reverberating bass and pounding drums reflect the emptiness of cruel depression on record yet on stage will have the crowd pitting. Vocally Dennis roars throughout his tales of terror sounding like an angry giant bear woken from a slumber.

The title track riffs with groove and a drum swing beneath it while Scars Bear Your Name, featuring To The Grave’s Dane Evans, is a pit fury enticer about betrayal with music to match.

The themes of self harm relay in To Vomit A God You Know Might Die, a sinister and disturbing yet dynamic crushing number and the final track All Of My Suffering which has softness interjecting the rage as the end nears. Look out for Dennis’s growl which turns the narrative on its head.

Hate Complex’s Jesse Burr throwdowns on Ground War, a song about standing up to your abuser, as the chest beating rhythms turn up the ante of this journey through Dennis’s own Silent Hill with police radio flickering throughout.

This album has some pretty heavy themes, so is not for the faint hearted, however those themes are relatable to most of us. Hearing the band work through them is a cathartic process that is to be shared and used. The music matching the desperation in the lyrics, yet translating well enough to ignite on stage.

It is bold, it’s heavy, it’s searing and it rumbles. The debut album from Seek Misery will be a welcome addition into your deathcore and death metal collection.

Album Review By Iain McCallum

Seek Misery – Everyone You Love Will Leave is out Friday November 14