Review: “No Place of Warmth” by Frozen Soul

“Each song on this record has its own meaning and influences that helped make them what they are, but in their essence are written to give the listener that extra push and power they need to fight those everyday battles. These songs are built to say ‘We won’t be swept away by its winds; we can and we will move forward. Our mindset was to stop overthinking it and trying to write the most epic song. Anytime we have features, it’s with friends and bands that we love and respect who share the same feelings and emotion that we’re trying to get across in the song. Gerard, Rob and Devin all added their own unique styles and love into the songs and really helped bring them to life. It was an absolute pleasure working with them. We took this opportunity to change and try new things– we would go into the basement of where we were staying and just write and immediately we started catching our groove.” ~ Chad Green

For the past eight years Dallas Texas natives Frozen Soul have been burning bridges and using them to light their way across a bleak landscape, the qualities of their old school Death Metal sound earning them tours around the globe with everyone from Dying Fetus to Obituary and Killswitch Engage. Produced by Josh Schroeder (Lorna Shore, Signs Of The Swarm, King 810) their third album “No Place of Warmth” was done differently to its predecessors. After a relentless touring schedule, the band spent six weeks in Midland Michigan to write from a blank slate, working day and night to tighten things up from instinct, deliberately not attempting to over think things. Having earned their stripes with a fresh, theatrical approach, musing on themes of death, coldness, murder, revenge and well… ice, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

The first of three guest appearances on the album finds Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance gracing title track “No Place Of Warmth“, the guitars rising from a John Carpenter style old school horror movie synth pattern before the fierce vocals begin. Leaning into Melodic Death Metal influences the lead guitars run throughout, offering a spine tingling glimpse of what the band can do if they step away from their monolithic trademark crushing grooves for a second but it’s the vocals that win the day. Green’s parts are savage, his sand blasting for the ear drums having an almost theatrical edge as he sounds like a soothsayer warning of the wrath of a furious beast. There are no clean vocal parts from Way to take the edge off either as he joins the party in unexpectedly savage fashion. The result is an epic opening cut that has a little bit more to it than the bands usual Bolt Thrower and Mortician style worship and that continues into the blistering “Invoke War” which features Rob Flynn of Machine Head. A skull splitting tune with Clash of the Titans or Gods of War vibes it has all the thunderous percussion and muscular guitars you expect from the band with a menacing and sinister undertone that calls for mosh pit violence. A fifty three second burst of Metallic Hardcore tinged Death Metal “Absolute Zero” then makes for a vicious assault on the senses to complete the unholy trinity of opening cuts in style. Frozen Soul are a well oiled Death Metal machine at this point, they have all the verve and swagger of a band in their prime and they’re ready for World domination.

The last of the guest appearances comes on “Dreadnought” with Devin Swank of Sanguisugabogg lending his throat for a an anthem about a war machine with a clanky bass line from Samantha Mobley as well as a classy solo. It’s classic old school Death Metal and has a scream along lyrical narrative that you just can’t help but partake in, no matter your surroundings. The riffs are merciless, the percussion restless and relentless and the vocals? A plague wind threatening to bring total annihilation. The death growls on “Chaos Will Reign” are arguably consistently deeper and darker than we’ve heard from Green before, the sinister undertones of the song making it the perfect soundscape for any major motion picture featuring demonic scenes of otherworldly chaos. There is a ripper of a solo at the black beating heart of “Eyes of Despair“, the galloping drums from Matt Dennar the driving force behind another vicious tirade. There are no frills or spills here, no fat to trim or mindless self indulgence, the band opting instead to play to their strengths and strip everything down to the bare essentials, the very essence of what they have been for the past eight years. Continuing the Death Metal destruction in clinical fashion “Ethereal Dreams” is pure evil, Green sounding like he’s reading the monologue of Freddy Kruger with the lyrical narrative.

A sample introduces the malevolence of “Skinned by the Wind” which is another fine example of how to deliver some in your face Death Metal that has immediate appeal and instant impact. Frozen Soul slice and dice with consummate ease as they cut their way through the urban jungle, their prowess second to none, the Groove orientated down tuned chugs of  “DEATHWEAVER” another tale of unending battles and vanquishing foes. Its all as fearfully addictive as the latest designer drug and you can’t help but crack a smile at the blunt force trauma that is “Frost Forged” because it’s another killer tune that sees guitarists Michael Munday and Chris Bonner inflict maximum damage. Frozen Soul have serious chemistry and on this evidence are prolific writers of high grade incendiary material, the fact that something this good was created in six weeks utterly mind blowing. Told from a serial killer’s perspective “Killin Time (Until its Time to Kill)” might be a little cheesy lyrically but is also seriously good fun. The kind of Death Metal tune that everyone can enjoy, it plays out like a low budget horror movie during which everyone anticipates the blood splattering the walls and laughs at the loosely cobbled together story line [8.5/10]

Track Listing

1. No Place Of Warmth (ft. Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance)
2. Invoke War (ft. Rob Flynn of Machine Head)
3. Absolute Zero
4. Dreadnought (ft. Devin Swank of Sanguisugabogg)
5. Chaos Will Reign
6. Eyes of Despair
7. Ethereal Dreams
8. Skinned by the Wind
9. DEATHWEAVER
10. Frost Forged
11. Killin Time (Until its Time to Kill)

“No Place of Warmth” by Frozen Soul is out 8th May 2026 via Century Media