Fiery, aggressive, and measured, Chaplin’s Dream’s latest fervour of a rock tune ‘Salt of the Earth’ is everything you’d want from a heavy metal tune. Powerful and prophetic, its melodic riffs, impassioned vocals, and towering drums all combine to craft an ominous and frenetic metal piece that’s loaded with emphatic scale and luxury. I admire the levels of melodic attention paid to the tune. The vocal harmonies, the measured and restrained guitar work at times, and the ever building drum performance just add layers on layers to the performance’s scope.
It’s exactly what any metal head would be looking for, following a by the numbers approach with subtleties in its execution that lend to its distinctiveness. The vocals are never veering over the line into the immensely aggressive screaming that some tunes veer into. It’s much more measured, far more melodic, and exquisitely arranged. Metal for today.