So to know about Added Color means we have to talk about Unconscious Disturbance; the name under which the band has existed for the last five years...until 3 months ago when they collectively accepted the realization that metal as a genre is only worth being all in as a band if the band is all in to metal with their music. And when I say adding funk and rock and the other sound genres that now build their world sound, its better to say they recognized the truth of having a funk bassit and reggae band meber and how they weren;t using the strenghts given.
And while it was a slow build, cultivating metallic sound styles that rocked them through Brazil to the United States, now they've gone truly global with a new EP, Psycho, that works to raise them between a million metal bands.
Does this mean they've gone acoustic drums accompanied by the wind alone? No, thankfully the aggressive punches of their earlier time in rock and metal stay consistent in this new shell, just less running through the tempo, more ups and downs lead by the bass. It is an EP through and through, with just five songs, three being older tracks from the UnconDisturb era that they've kept and tweaked, so I already want to hear what something meatier from the new focus sounds like. Especially when you hear Psycho, the single the EP takes its name from and how it slithers between funktastic chords, I hit next just wanting more goodness. While the throwbacks are nice and they nailed the selection that was pulled from the previous, ultimately they come off as distractions to the bigger picture.
