EP Review: Carbon Black – Principium 2.0 (Self Released)

On December 6th, NSW, Australia metal act Carbon Black released the ‘Principium 2.0’ EP. The new release features tracks from Principium, the band’s 2014 debut EP, re-recorded, remixed and reimagined. It’s also a celebration of a decade since the group’s arrival and live debut.

You don’t have to be familiar with the original recording to enjoy this, I certainly wasn’t, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. As will you, provided you like heavy music with powerful riffs, intense percussion, epic vocals, infectious choruses, and so much more.

Featuring five blasts of accessible heaviness that genre blends but keeps the intensity of metal at the forefront, Carbon Black deliver a ton of thrills throughout the EP. The highlights? The vigorous brilliance of Mourn and its class chorus, the thumping groove of Fade Away and its manic guitar solo, and the progressive giant that is Deceive Deny. Each track showing off much of Carbon Black’s creativity and the unique layers they have to their sound.

Impressively, these tracks don’t sound a decade old, which is testament to the effort they’ve put in to updating them.

Carbon Black – Principium 2.0 Track Listing:

1. Mourn (2024 Version)
2. Blood And Sacrifice (2024 Version)
3. Fade Away (2024 Version)
4. Deceive Deny (2024 Version)
5. Obey (2024 Version)

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