Kaptain Kollnot (and fair warning, I always love bands with “Captain” in the name) is an 80’s-style metal project from Grand Rapids, Michigan. The band’s leader is Jeff Kollnot, who writes all the songs and plays guitar and bass, joined by vocalist Stu Block and drummer Eric Landon. The group has released a couple of albums and EPs since 2019, and its newest single is titled "Mankinds."
The group’s music has been described as “metal with an arena rock flavor” as well as “progressive metal/shred” (Encyclopaedia Metallum). Kollnot explains that this song is about “Homo Sapiens collaborating with inter-dimensional evolutionary descendants of ourselves in a post-UFO disclosure world. Some consider it sci-fi, others don’t.” Mixing and mastering were done by CJ Gardineer. To set the stage: imagine the vocals, speed, and galloping drums of Metallica, with some of those classic guitar harmonics of Eddie Van Halen. For the first chorus, the band makes a quick but seamless change to a slower tempo (though “slower” is relative, of course!). Then they go back to the template from the first section, before the second chorus adds even more brazenly fuzzed-out melodies. For the third section, we enter the “prog” part of the equation, with crazy, fractured riffs leading into a dueling lead solo section that will cause your jaw to fall to the concrete. The big conclusion is basically the chorus on steroids, and by this point I’m surprised the snare drum hasn’t been reduced to a pile of wood shards. This is speed metal so fast and intense you can barely believe you heard it. I loved it and wish there were a whole album’s worth. Get on it, Kaptain!
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