Calm intertwine the foundations of modern metal and emotion to create a convulsing musical beast that thrives upon enraged aggression and sullen emotion. Sounding like an intense combination of Spineshank, Project 86, Juice and the Deftones, the music is detuned and hungry with unrelenting riffs and a vocal performance that explodes with a depraved intensity.

With dark haunting harmonies akin to that of Juice's Brian Armer and intense growls and screams reminiscent of Spineshank's Jonny Santos, band frontman Jerry Ruff explodes with a performance that is nearly maniacal, yet carefully balances both melancholic emotion and violent intensity, while even throwing in a few shades of death metal styled screams and rants to spice up his words. Guitar wise, the effort is littered with traditional downtuned modern metal crunch that sounds similar to that of Korn in texture, yet the riffs are played with chugging lunges and swipes, making them sound all the more primal. As expected, the bass playing is tuned down a bit lower as well and thickens up the loose riffs with a solid base of action, while numbing thuds of double kick styled percussion and resilient snare hits cement the songs in place only to be rocked by the occasional well place bass drop.

Calm's music is definitely a heavy affair that tests the limits of emotional depravity, sounding almost ethereal during the more downtrodden moments while viciously unrestrained through the aggressive. The jarring wrath filled vocals that can go from wounded to furious at the drop of a dime truly help to accentuate the songs and take them to another level, while a constant dynamic shift between melody and heaviness allows them to escape the typical pitfalls of most of today's up and coming loud acts. However, despite the obvious pros, there are still a few flaws that ultimately hold the band back. The instrumental portion of the music itself is fairly standard new metal and doesn't exactly offer up anything ground breaking, plus band frontman Jerry can tend to get a bit too carried away with his varying parts at times, making for long excursions that would be much more powerful had they been implemented sparsely. Still, when combined they do work together fairly well and suggest that Calm will be able to carve out a considerable niche for themselves in the future, because they already have the basis of a good sound, it just now needs to blossom and flourish into its own.