This album proved to be one of the few this year that truly lived up to expectations. With quite possibly the strongest 3-song opening of any album released this year, this is mainstream metal at its very finest. “Closer To Habit”, the initial single release is an angst- and hook-filled 3 ½ minutes of musical perfection. The two songs preceding it, “Fake” and “A Different Someone” are equally fantastic, with the former being my own personal favourite.
Kelly Hayes, one of the band’s guitarists, was formerly in Cold (one of America’s most highly underrated bands), and there is a slight tinge of a similar sound to a lot of the material on here. But, Allele are not a band trying to play off another band’s successes; this is a band who have created their own, melodic-yet-driving hard rock sound that should appeal to a wide range of music fans, and not only rockers.
A variety of styles and tempos (though thankfully nowhere near as eccentric as System Of A Down), Point Of Origin is a very fine debut album indeed, and fully deserves your attention. The only reason this didn’t receive full marks was because although not sounding like anyone per se, a lot of this is familiar ground. Also, from the strength of the first three tracks, the rest seems to dull a little.
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