Album Review: Recall the Remains – Revenant (Self Released)

Released on May 1st, 2025, ‘Revenant’ is the debut full-length album from Telford-based metalcore unit Recall the Remains.

One of the brightest stars in British metal, Recall the Remains’ phenomenal run hits a peak with this debut album. Featuring nine belters that showcase the variety in their sound, the depth to their songwriting, and the talent within their ranks. Chances are, I’m preaching to the choir here, but this band is awesome.

Revenant has plenty of tracks that will be familiar to long term listeners, and it is one such previously released track, ‘Fairfield’ that kicks off the album in style. Instantly giving us a heady hit of groove and aggression via intense riffs, hard-hitting drums and vocals that alternate between furious growls, gnarly roars, and soaring highs. It, and so much of what follows, is head banging gold, but a melodic drop in the latter part is notably special and proof of Recall to Remains’ exciting drive to be diverse.

It might have been around a while, but the track still goes hard. Although you’d be hard-pressed to find a track on here that doesn’t. The Night Will Bleed is a more experimental listen with so many unique parts, sharp instrumentation, some of the harshest vocals, and a clever transition into clean singing that sounds awesome. Did I mention the guitar soloing? It’s a packed track!

By contrast, Fever Dreams and Darker Path are a bit more ‘sensible’, but I use that word extremely loosely and really just to highlight the body shaking, head banging, and fist punching heavy groove, melodic mass, and infectious energy of the pair. Recall the Remains continuing to kick so much ass with familiar, but not overly so, metalcore.

Part of that is their modernised approach that doesn’t rely on tropes or follow any particular set path, and that also applies to the overuse of more alternative elements. An aspect of modern metalcore that has become trite. Not Recall the Remains, everything they do has purpose and that focus means we get tracks like Empty Woods and Lifetaker. Recall the Remains are breaking away from the pack and it’s all because of tracks like these. Especially as there are darker and meaner sounding tones (the breakdown in the latter will result in some busted noses live).

Do you know what else there is? Technical touches that offer up moments of challenge and demands that the listener give the music all the attention it needs. Kind of hard to say no when it’s this much of a whirlwind experience, right?

Does your Recall the Remains bingo card have nu-metal as one of the genres that the band might explore here? If so, good news, here’s Cerberus and it’s cool. Different, but cool, and there’s no denying the energy it has. How about Our Hell though!? Chunky as heck, but with thought-provoking drama. Another banger, but not to leave anyone wanting, Brothers Until Betrayal ends things on an anthemically pleasing high. Their imagination having officially run so wild that a track as layered and expansive as this can somehow seem ordinary, even though it’s far from that. It’s special, a spectacular finale, that could easily be called one of the best things the band has written, but it comes on an album that is packed with quality.

You don’t need me to tell you that this band is special, but even then, this album is something else. One of the brightest stars in British metal has just gone supernova.

Recall the Remains – Revenant Track Listing:

1. Fairfield
2. The Night Will Bleed
3. Fever Dreams
4. Darker Path
5. Empty Woods
6. Lifetaker
7. Cerberus
8. Our Hell
9. Brothers Until Betrayal

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