The Halo Effect – March Of The Unheard – Review

6th January 2025 0 By Suzie Rottencrotch

If you’ve ever wondered what it would sound like if legendary Swedish melodic death metal musicians from Dark Tranquility, Arch Enemy, and In Flames came together after 3 years, grabbed a coffee, and decided to lay down some riffs so brutal and beautiful that your eardrums would start crying happy tears, March of the Unheard by The Halo Effect answers that question.

The Halo Effect are very much like a swan with this album, elegant and turns vicious without warning.

The twin guitar harmonies appearing throughout this epic album, carve out soundscapes that are crushing and ridiculously catchy. The vocals are soaring, powerful, and emotionally charged, like a Viking battle cry… if Vikings were capable of understanding the concept of personal growth.

Stand out track? Not for me. The entire album is insane and to pick out just one track on this album above the others would do this album an injustice of epic proportions. It’s just a good solid album that deserves to be in any self-respecting metal heads CD/vinyl collection.

If had to pick a bad thing about this album, it’s just over 44 minutes. Not nearly long enough. They’ve taken the teachings of John Cleese and Fawlty Towers by producing 12 fantastic titles and left the audience wanting more.

Brilliant.
Score 8/10

Tracklist:
1. Conspire To Decieve
2. Detonate
3. Our Channel To The Darkness
4. Cruel Perception
5. What We Become
6. This Curse Of Silence
7. March Of The Unheard
8. Forever Astray
9. Between Directions
10. A Death That Becomes Us
11. The Burning Point
12. Coda 3:53