For Long Island New York natives Orion, being compared to bands like Thursday and Beloved is not a bad thing. The only way this comparison could be bad is if people start to think that Orion sounds too much like these bands. Luckily for Orion they have based their sound around these influences and added their own personal touch to it. With heavy emocore, metalcore and punk influences Orion stand on their own in a world where bands and their sounds blend together too often.

“The Sound And The Fury” is Orion’s debut EP on Hotfoot records and is the first real outlet for the band and its fans. What Orion provides its fans on this EP is a glimpse into a band that seems to be headed in the right direction. Orion delivers well structured songs that incorporate a driving emo punk sound with metalcore breakdowns. The band can easily provide a nice hook as well as a haunting metalcore scream. Once you package this all up you have something really special.

From the Thursday influenced ‘Camp Hero Cliffs’ to the Beloved influenced ‘This Is The Confession’, Orion cover the gamut of their influencing genres. If you add to that the impressively heavy ‘She is Only Human’ you know that there is nothing that this band isn’t capable of. Jay Schombs(vocals), Dan Yllanes (guitar), Evan Hess (guitar, vocals), Sal Bono (drums), and Kraig Dauernheim (bass) should be proud of the diversity they have achieved is a genre has become limiting in recent years.

I expect big things from Orion in the future and believe that they have only scratched the surface with this EP. If Orion can break free of the constraints of their influences they should be able to reinvent the genres that they are currently bound to.

Rating: 4/5