Pitfloor is a French metal and hardcore quartet, some of whose members have worked with Danforth. They give us the opportunity with 'Karma One' to look at their first work.
'Magnetic Attractions' starts the hostilities with a sonic emergency call that reminds us of the opening of Killing Joke's first album, 'Requiem'. Pitfloor gets off to a fast start and this dizzying speed will ignore any speed limit. Throughout the opus, the changes of rhythm are quite subtle, slowing down or freezing to the extreme before committing to new frenzied climbs. Among the musicians, we notice the dexterity of Tit on the drums, whose play quite light enriches the furious madness.
The band tries to vary the pleasures by proposing different ambiences but the difference of sound level and genres between the tracks is not flagrant, the hardcore remaining the common denominator. We have to wait for the last song 'Third Eye' to detect some melodic tendencies, which we would have liked to be more thorough (but this is an EP and we have to go to the essential).
The lyrics, if they are not always audible (in accordance with the genre) seem to be quite critical. The vocals, if it obeys the clichés of the genre, would have deserved a more subtle treatment (in particular on 'Revolt'). The atmosphere is quite dark but Pitfloor manages however to never be leaden, the short listening time makes the successive auditions even more enjoyable.
"Karma One" allows Pitfloor to start on a good note by offering us a tempting EP in which we find, despite some embellishments, a potential and a know-how. Enough to ensure him a good karma for his next offerings!