Release Date June 5th, 2026
Format CD/Digital
Genre Heavy Metal
Origin France
Seven Metal Sins came together in April 2024 when bassist Stéphane Lacoude and drummer Patrick Soria resumed a long musical partnership and began assembling a new heavy metal band. Guitarist Antton Iriart entered soon afterward and became central to the songwriting, followed by vocalist Claw-G. in December 2024 and guitarist Frédéric Auclerc in March 2025. The resulting five member lineup uses twin guitars, bass, drums, and a high register vocal attack, drawing from classic heavy metal and the faster edge of power and speed metal.
Its early music grew around riff based structures, galloping rhythm, melodic hooks, and vocals aimed at urgency more than ornament. The first release, “Hypocrisy,” arrived in April 2025 and opened the path toward the debut album, “Legacy Of Chaos,” released by Rockshots Records. The lyrics focus on environmental decline, social fracture, authoritarian drift, collapse, and resistance, using dystopian and science fiction imagery to connect present damage with bleak possible futures.
“Legacy Of Chaos” contains eleven cuts, mixed by Jérémie Garat at Reseda Prod and mastered by Simon Capony at Basalte Studio. The production is defined and powerful; the guitars retain separation during faster runs, the bass remains present underneath, Patrick Soria’s drums strike with precision, and Claw-G.’s voice rises above the riffs without being buried. The twin guitar writing alternates churning chord work with melodic lines, rarely wandering into self indulgent solo displays, as the drumming uses a clipped attack and the bass supplies a darker undercurrent.
Galloping rhythms, rapid tempo changes, melodic leads, and broad choruses give the album constant forward motion, with “Wolves Of The Last Dawn” offering an accurate summary of its heavy and power metal blend, while “King Of Sorrow” extends the closing stretch beyond six minutes. Failing systems, abused power, ecological damage, and the choice between submission and resistance return throughout; the imagery is blunt and concrete, with actual subjects behind the anger and no needless explanation smothering the songs.
The main flaw is range, since several choruses rely on similar rising shapes and the sustained upper register vocals narrow the emotional spectrum when several songs are heard together. Those limitations cannot erase the quality of the riffing, the disciplined rhythm section, the firm construction, or the melodic detail spread across the album. “Legacy Of Chaos” is a very strong debut, fast and focused, armed with enough variation, and enough substance beneath its heavy metal hooks to remain effective after the immediate rush has faded.
|8.3
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