The Red Death is one of the latest additions to the Metal Blade catalogue and the band plays thrash metal with a heavy American hardcore vibe. Personally I would like to add a pinch of melodic death metal to that description.

External Frames Of Reference is the band’s full length debut on Metal Blade Records and it could be worse; this is one hell of a debut. Combining thrash and melodic death metal with hardcore parts gives the music somewhat of an original approach.

The production of this album is pretty decent too; the instruments and the vocals are all in a good balance. The song writing is, in my humble opinion, good and diverse. The diversity of the songs probably has something to do with the mixture of the different styles of metal. I think Metal Blade did a good job contracting The Red Death!