Rusty Eye - Style

Style

The vast majority of reviewers agree that Rusty Eye is a band with an original style and has a way of seamlessly moving their music in multiple directions at once, often without sacrificing the integrity of the song itself. Because of this, attempts to pinpoint the sound and style usually lead to disappointment "Without compromise, they make records exactly how they want them to be. Their ambition is a beating baboon heart at the centre of all their thinking."

When asked what was the importance of spreading out musically and not pigeon-holing into any one style, Mr. Rust replied: "Many people have tried to label the sound: Progressive Punk Metal, Horror Thrash, etc…" "…It’s even been hard for us to come up with a simple, brief and accurate description and it’s so impossible to satisfy everyone, so to keep things simple we just say we are “Heavy Metal” and we let people figure out the rest by themselves." On another interview, Miss Randall said: "It has always been difficult to label Rusty Eye‘s style, because no one else is doing what we are doing”, "we’ve given up on labeling ourselves and let everyone decide for themselves. We are definitely metal; that’s a given. Many others consider us to be progressive because of the technicality and the artsy side of the music. But the fact is that we aim to deliver a naturally original style of music"

Many reviewers have described the style recognizing the elements that build the whole sound. For example, "the music is a colossal hybrid of metal, rock and punk styles all interwoven into a resonance that sounds very natural, without any notice of the music being forced into the aforementioned styles. You will hear thrash metal riffs, black metal style tremolo picking; punk riffs toppled with highly 70’s influenced progressive rock crossed with a very strong NWOBHM approach. If that was not a sufficient amount of genre hopping, I still did not mention the highly immense underground metal influence of death metal as well as stoner rock.". "While most carrying the label of progressive metal tend to focus on one or two elements such as involved song structures or hybrid of styles, and exaggerating them to the point of hitting new territory, Rusty Eye takes little pieces of everything, almost like a jigsaw puzzle", "technical Thrash riffing, odd changes or unexpected sections, a pinch of fancy bass work rivaling both Steve Harris and Geddy Lee, a touch of older hard and Punk rock influences, a seasoning of keyboard ambiences and Neo-classical tonality, and the occasional smatterings of both Black and Death metal vocalizations"."A complex alloy of virtually every extreme music form".