Quebec City's BLINDED BY FAITH is the proprietor of Canada's most underrated metal album of the '00s in 2003's striking Under An Occult Sun, that record a storming of the CRADLE-meets-BODOM gates that still resonates, loudly, almost a decade on. Though 2012 sees the band leaning less on symphonic black and moreso on straight swaths of melodic death, Tchernobyl Survivor still at times dissertates with DIMMU-esque fervor, even if it seems like Blinded By Faith has given up that second residence in the forest for digs in the city, if you get what I'm saying. It’s actually quite remarkable how Blinded By Faith has, once again, impressed so greatly, the band writing at upper-tier levels and executing with immense professionalism, this group 10+ years into a career that should have long ago led to a big record deal and world tours. In 2003, ‘Burning Rebellion’ and ‘Submit To The Summit’ were the sort of moments that had one nodding the head in such colossal approval and it’s with a sense of almost surrealism that Blinded By Faith has again graced us with two career-defining works in ‘Stranger In The Mirror’ and ‘Shriveled Wings’, both being the types of anthems that should have vaulted this band to prominence and splendour a decade ago.
