The BraveAura

Australia’s heavy scene is lauded on a global scale and albums like Aura prove that there’s a damn good reason why.

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On LP2 The Brave have wrestled with ideas of change, love and loss; dropping a set of eleven tracks that are gritty, vulnerable and full of visceral emotion. And sonically? They’ve thrown a bunch of influences at the wall and boy has a lot of it stuck. Playing to their strengths, chunky riffs and roaring choruses pillar the record at large but that’s not all it has to offer. Aura flits back and forth between bits of djenty goodness (see: the very Northlane inspired Through The Dark) and more atmospheric, synth heavy elements (see: the title track Aura).

Aura is not the album that will see The Brave reinvent the wheel, but it is the album that will see them drop a set of some incredibly catchy metalcore tunes.

Heck, there’s even some Bring Me The Horizon esque influences (see: Lost in the Night) and some throwbacks to the nü-metal sound Linkin Park perfected in the early noughties (see: Technicolor).

But despite this amalgamation of sounds, the five piece have not been immune to the metalcore curse. There’s a bit of a same same quality and some of the tracks do bleed into each other (particularly in the first half of the record)- but that’s no real surprise when you consider the oversaturation of the genre.

Aura is not the album that will see The Brave reinvent the wheel, but it is the album that will see them drop a set of some incredibly catchy metalcore tunes. And in a live setting? There’s no doubt that it will see crowds erupt into a mic grabbing frenzy.

STANDOUT TRACKS: Ethereal, Technicolor, Lost to the Night
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