TEMPLE OF BONES – Walk the Winds

RELEASE YEAR: 2026
BAND URL: https://templeofbones.bandcamp.com/album/walk-the-winds

This explosive musical cocktail consisting of death metal and thrash metal with just a few subtle hints of black metal and hardcore thrown in for good measure is a rumbling, pulverizing, and fierce slab of intense entertainment. With an impressive line-up featuring members of the much-loved Ripping Corpse and Dim Mak, Temple of Bones wastes no time in pummeling you to death by means of hook-laden, well-written, and confident-sounding songs that harbor plenty of interesting twists, turns, and surprises throughout. The idea of introducing dynamics in music is clearly not a foreign concept to these chaps, which is obviously a splendid thing in that you never quite know what lurks around the corner. Given that the record lasts a mere twenty-something minutes it never outstays its welcome, and although innovation is not on the agenda here as such, that is perfectly fine since the result is as satisfying a listen as it is. The raw sound of the affair is an added bonus and somehow reminds this scribe of some of Obituary’s records.

The outfit’s combination of various genres and styles as well as their ability to merge aggression and face-melting riffs with creative arrangements and a certain sense of immediacy ensures that it leaves an impression and possesses longevity. In many ways, this is a rather robust soundtrack to a world that is tearing itself apart at a rapid pace.