Review: Blossom Decay – Sorrow Falls

“Sorrow Falls” doesn’t pretend to be gentle. Blossom Decay deliver a blistering blend of raw metalcore and hardcore, their sound ragged, urgent, frequently messy in a way that feels more honest than smooth. Vocals spit and roar, guitars slash and collapse, drums hammer with tension – there’s grit, there’s blood, there’s sorrow. The EP contains five songs, including a few short interludes that loosen the grip just enough to let the tension coil tighter again rather than suffocate completely.

The opening songs hits like a sucker punch, the riffs sharp, the emotion barely held in check. The breakdowns and the mosh-parts land hard,. But what lifts “Sorrow Falls” above being just another hardcore/metalcore burst is its dynamics: interludes provide brittle breathing spaces, as if the band briefly lowers their guard, letting vulnerability peek in. “Grief” works as a momentary fracture, while “Sorrow Falls In A Ruthless Embrace” feels like the core: unrelenting, cathartic, a collision of personal anguish and musical violence.

Production is strong for a DIY effort. The mix isn’t polished, but that’s exactly the point: raw edges remain, distortion carries crackle; the drum tone sometimes jumps out too much, the bass sometimes sits just under a wave of guitar, but overall it’s balanced enough to let the rage breathe without becoming one indistinguishable blur. Particularly the heavier parts benefit from a rougher fidelity: they feel as if they were captured in struggle rather than comfort.

The listener is dragged through tension, through soft collapse, back into confrontation. The flow is not perfectly consistent , as the jump from brutal to fragile isn’t always seamless, but that tension becomes part of the experience: you stay unsettled, which seems very intentional.

The EP has heart, it has bite, it bleeds. Blossom Decay prove they’re doing more than mimicking hardcore templates: they carve their own wounds into the genre. For those who like their intensity mixed with sorrow, with brief glimpses of fragile beauty before the storm returns, “Sorrow Falls” delivers.