Band:	Trespassenger
Album:	Despair
Style:	Melodic death metal
Release date:	2003
A review by:	Undercraft

01. My Hate - For You
02. I Feel No Mercy
03. Despair
04. Why Do You Cry?
05. Restless

I received this demo a long time ago, and I just took the time to listen it properly and review it, I didn't give attention to it, because the cover art is just ugly, not to mention cliché, I have at least a couple more Metal albums with a nuclear explosion in the Cd cover, anyway, moving on?

My fears increased when I opened the Cd and in the backside of the cover I saw a picture of the band, and I was afraid not because these guys are very young (average age of band members is 15), I was afraid to listen to this because one of the members had a Slipknot T-shirt! Damn, I just received a Nu-Metal Demo!, "If I hate the well-produced Nu-Metal, how will I react before a Nu-metal Demo?" Was the first thing that I thought.

Slowly I placed the Cd in my player, and the first song "My Hate-For You" began, after a whisper, the drums began to sound, followed by some guitars, oh, nice keyboards! This is definitively not Nu-Metal I though relieved! Actually this sounded good? until the vocalist entered the arena, god what a perfect way to ruin a good song.

Two kind of voices, clear and growls, growls are pretty good, and mix in with the music just fine, but the clean singing, no no no, I don't know if this guy tries to sound Gothic or whatever, but the vocals are just terrible and become annoying after a while.

I must say that I was impressed by the quality of the musicianship, songs are pretty catchy and compositions are fresh and creative, and all of this coming from a very young band, once again, Finland proves that every single habitant is born with musical abilities in their veins.

My advice, for the fourth Demo of the band, either you improve the clean singing, or drop it, other suggestion is to design a good logo for the band, and think it over twice when it comes to choosing your cover art, besides that, I think Envy is on his way to make it, good luck to this youngsters.