THE DEADLY RHYTHM

METAL: HELLSINGER has a bone to pick with damnation... and a few to break

- Kaile Hultner

NEED TO KNOW 

WHAT IS IT? You got your Soundfall in my Dusk!

EXPECT TO PAY £25

DEVELOPER The Outsiders

PUBLISHER Funcom

REVIEWED ON AMD Aerith 0405 2.8 GHz; AMD Van Gogh 0405 GPU, 16GB RAM (Steam Deck 256GB)

MULTIPLAYER No, but there IS a global leaderboard

LINK metalhellsinger.com

The first time I ever listened to Swedish hardcore band Refused’s seminal 1998 album, The Shape of Punk to Come, my brain leaked out of my ears. It is a major reason why extreme music sounded like it did in the 2000s, the connective tissue between generations of hardcore and metal. In a similar vein, The Outsiders’ Metal: Hellsinger tries to connect highoctane first-person shooting and rhythm gameplay with metal.

Rhythm FPSes are a relatively new phenomenon that might best be described as an unholy union between Doom and Crypt of the Necrodancer. Only a handful of games even currently exist in this nascent genre, and it’s not hard to see some striking similarities between them. What makes Metal: Hellsinger stand apart is the quality of its soundtrack and its slower gameplay.