Cold Snap are a hard rock act from Croatia who have released their 3rdstudio album “World War 3”. Wearing them influences on their sleeves of Disturbed, Korn and Rage Against The Machine the band manage to sound fresh and new but still strangely nostalgic at the same time.
The album is that blend of groove metal with big crunchy riffs that really some up that wonderful time period of when nu-metal was dying and evolving into something harder using big Machine Head and Pantera style riffs but before the likes of Lamb Of God and Shadows Fall came and wiped them out completely.
The album opens up “Straight To Hell” which is big fat and seriously groove laden. Front man Jan Kerekes sings with that familiar tone and he even goes as far as to compare himself to Fred Durst which in today’s day and age really isn’t something you want to publicise in 2015 but there it is.
The album its sell is a lot of fun but my issue with it is that its really about 10 years too late. While its not a bad album by any stretch of the imagination its just not a very creative album. They don’t offer you anything you really haven’t heard before. Its that perfect blend of hard rock and groove metal that if this came out in the early 2000s Cold Snap would have been huge and had a ton of exposure on MTV and the likes but the world has kinda moved on.
If this came out around the same time as say Damage Plan maybe it these guys would have been headlining everywhere but instead they just kinda get lost amongst all the other similar acts both new and old. Which to me is a little bit sad because they aren’t bad at all, they’re really a great band and they deserve more
Hopefully in the future they can possibly maybe try something new and possibly experiment a little more otherwise they’re just gonna get lost in the shuffle. I still recommend seeking these guys out and giving them a listen
“World War 3” is available now
http://www.cold-snap.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ColdSnapOfficial
https://twitter.com/ColdSnap_hr
http://www.eclipserecords.com/cold-snap
