Threat Signal: Under Reprisal

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Michael Levy wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "Thank goodness (or darkness) for the metal underground. A host of below-the-radar bands have realized that metal, as brutal and savage as it is, can be successfully melded with various other forms of music, for creative rather than commercial reasons. … [T]rue heavy metal requires some digging. The Canadian band Threat Signal released its first album last year after an extremely successful demo version of their song 'Rational Eyes' beat out over 8,000 other entries in a competition on garageband.com. Produced by Fear Factory's current guitarist, Christian Olde Wolbers, the songs came out sounding full of life. Vocalist Jon Howard's screaming vocals are as brutal as they are energetic. The young band puts more focus on great riffing than some of their counterparts who would rather focus on catchy choruses. Granted, Threat Signal has those too, but since their songs rely more on thrash elements than death, they grind quicker, leaving room even for bits of piano, as on 'As I Destruct'" ("The Smart Set: The Foremost Mentally Stimulating Metal Bands," 4/19/07, p. 24).