Emerging Artist Reviews

Album Review: Killamozz "Age of Cage"

by The Metalverse

Updated November 20, 2025

Killamozz has just released their debut album, Age of Cage, following a chain of single releases leading up to the LP. Firmly planted upon themes of control, manipulation, and resistance, the band provides their explanation of the ideas behind the concept album below:

Age of Cage examines how institutions, influences, and personal choices accumulate over time—slowly building cages around us until escape demands confrontation. The record captures the tension between freedom and control imposed by governments, corporations, social conditioning, and internal struggle. It isn’t about waking up in captivity—it’s about realizing how the walls were built, layer by layer.

The 10-track album begins with Enter The Trance, introducing itself with Persian-inspired harp melodies and drums before launching into full-intensity distorted guitar riffs and slamming drum beats. Verses change between ambient clean guitar and singing that builds an atmospheric sound and crushing heaviness with hard-hitting guitar and more aggressive singing. The song's chorus features harsher singing as vocals have an almost robotic edge to them, creating a unique and memorable sound.

Fool's Gold showcases the band's mix of genres with djent guitar riffs, distant synths, and swaying intensity that suddenly changes from ambient to ferocity. One of our favorite tracks from the album, Fool's Gold, has a sound that reminds us of progressive metalcore, while mixing heavy EDM influences in a distinct breakdown, and keeping anthemic, hard rock influenced choruses.

Pressure is the first drastic change of pacing in the album, and showcases Killamozz is not afraid of experimenting. Pressure slows things down with a hypnotic, repeating guitar riff laying down the background of the track while emphasised singing creates cachy vocal hooks that keep things interesting. The song has a sound that reminds me of indie rock while growing in intensity throughout its 4-minute runtime and managing to keep the band's alternative edge.

Mind Heist starts with a hand drum beat as bouncing clean guitar and soft vocals are brought into the fray. Killamozz wastes no time building from a softer sound before introducing screams and heavy electric guitar while alternating with bright singing. The bridge features soaring singing as things slow down before jumping into a brutal breakdown that ends the song in a strong fashion.

The Trance, similarly named to the intro track, quickly introduces a trippy sound as a huge soundscape is built with reverbed guitar, rapid high hat beats, and haunting vocals. At around a minute and a half, The Trance is an atmospheric interlude that builds a palpable soundstage.

Track 6, To The Unknown, is one of the catchiest songs on the album and it slows things down similarly to Pressure while sounding distinctly different from it. With a softer rock sound, To The Unknown focuses on infectious vocal hooks that reminds me of pop melodies while clean guitar and trap beats form a powerfully deep sound.

Devils In Suits starts with clean guitar layered underneath lofi drop-tuned guitar melodies. Interestingly, the song doesn't kick in with full metal intensity and instead introduces a hip-hop trap beat and piano melodies, creating a rap-style beat. The contrast between traditional trap elements and distant extreme metal guitar makes for a distinct and exciting interlude that builds anticipation for the next track.

Title track Age of Cage starts features an aggressive dance-synth that creates an Iranian-folk style melody as the rest of the instrumentals create a more traditional industrial metal sound underneath the electronic elements. Vocals change between singing and screaming, as Nine Inch Nail reminiscent drum beats are swapped back and forth with a full drum kit. Age of Cage features more electronic elements than most previous tracks and has a high-octane pacing that makes it stand out. The track even features 2 seriously heavy breakdowns as piercing synths cut through the mix.

Heart of Gold bring back hip-hop influences as synths and bright pads build an electronic sound while gentle pop-esque vocals create powerful melodies. Guitar is brought into the mix in the chorus, creating dynamic chords beind soaring vocals and bouncing arpeggiated synths. Heart of Gold brings a softer sound that mixes genres from mainstream genres in with a hard rock sound.

The final track, Weightless, starts with lofi drums, distant guitar, and warm synths as singing builds into a more energetic chorus that has a similar idea to the previous track, with synths, pads, piano, and vocals taking the forefront while guitar chords create the background. Weightless seems to continue the pop-hard rock influences from the previous track, feeling ballad-like. With a softer sound, Killamozz focuses on creating intricate layering and soundscapes, creating a vibey and more polite exit to the album.

Overall, Age of Cage is a very enjoyable debut album from Killamozz that impresses with its production, blending of genres like industrial metal, hard rock, and electronic music, and its deep lyrical themes. Fans of hard rock, metalcore, and indie rock will definitely enjoy Killamozz's sound.

You can stream Age of Cage, available everywhere now.