Haunt: Mosaic Vision (2019)

The Fresno, California-based Haunt has been remarkably active since forming around 2017.  The band started as a solo project for Beastmaker vocalist/guitarist and Church Recordings founder Trevor William Church.  The label was also once the home of Dream Tröll, a band I have quickly developed an affinity for.  Haunt has so far released two full-length albums, two EPs, two splits and a single.  That is a lot of recordings for such a new band.  This release is one of the band's EPs, with just four songs on it.

I mentioned Dream Tröll in the previous paragraph and that is an adequate place to begin in describing Haunt's sound.  This is true, old school-sounding heavy metal with poppy melodies and extremely catchy choruses.  The music is a bit different than the other harder-edged material that I have heard from Haunt.  This is much more melodic.  The guitars are razor-sharp with blazing solos and wailing vocals.  Each of the songs on this EP is catchier than the last.

This is a fairly effective introduction to an impressive young band.  It is probably not their best release, as I said before most of their music is generally heavier than this release, but it is damn good in its own right.  I will be covering another one of Haunt's releases soon.