Unbroken Metal Onslaught

### Genre

Brutal death metal • blackened death-doom • nu metal • thrash metal • deathcore • symphonic metal

### Producer(s)

Päiviö Selänne • Nanika Young • Juliette Fisher • Sini Nykänen

**"Unbroken Metal Onslaught"** is song by Finnish heavy metal band Our Fragile Echo, released on January 5, 3798 A.A. through Fragile Echo Records. It is the lead single from the recording of the same name. The song is widely regarded as the band's heaviest song.

## Composition

### Musical style

"Unbroken Metal Onslaught" is a brutal death metal, blackened death-doom, nu metal, thrash metal, deathcore, and symphonic metal song that infuses elements of grindcore, industrial metal, thrashcore, and horror metal. The song has also been described as progressive blackened death-doom.

### Themes

Lyrically, "Unbroken Metal Onslaught" is directed towards those who have been negatively critical towards Our Fragile Echo over the decades, specifically those who criticized the band for constantly changing styles and accusing them of "selling out".

### Song structure

"Unbroken Metal Onslaught" combines the slow tempo of doom metal, the complexity, riffage, and loudness of death metal, the energy of symphonic metal, down-tuned guitars of nu metal, the breakdowns of deathcore, vocals from black metal, the speed of thrash metal and thrashcore, and the abrasive sound of grindcore and industrial metal. The song abandons any concept of song structure in favor of an *"atmospheric" intro-verse-chorus-solo-verse-breakdown-chorus-verse-bridge-breakdown-symphonic outro* song structure.

### Vocals and instruments

The song makes heavy use of growled vocals, fry screaming, and the "trademark snarls and shrieks of black metal", lacking use of clean vocals entirely.

As the song's lead vocalist, Päiviö Selänne is noted breaking the world record for the lowest vocal range performed by a female vocalist. While performing growled vocals, Selänne exclusively sings notes within the bass vocal range, specifically spanning 3.17 octaves from G♯1 (A♭1) to A♯4 (B♭4). While performing screamed vocals, her vocals span 3.83 octaves from E3 to D7.

During the introduction and outro, the band has their guitars tuned to Drop D. For the majority of the song, however, the bands' guitars are tuned to Drop G and Drop G♭. The guitars are tuned even lower during the song's two breakdowns, to Drop D♯ and Drop C♯, respectively.

## Personnel

* Our Fragile Echo — associated performer, lyricist
	+ Päiviö Selänne — lead vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar (intro), composition, production, mixing, programming
	+ Sini Nykänen — co-lead vocals, lead guitar, composition, production
	+ Kullervo Venäläinen — backing vocals, rhythm guitar
	+ Heljä Ketola — backing vocals, additional bass guitar, co-lead guitar (solo)
	+ Hellä Karttunen — drums, percussion
	+ Juliette Fisher — harp, violin (intro and outro), composition, production

* Additional personnel
	+ Nanika Young — additional unclean vocals, production
	+ Laia Sáenz — mixing, programming, art direction, paintings, creative direction
	+ Anya Starveil Castella — bass guitar (intro)
	+ Rhavonian "Rhav" De'Laka — keyboards
	+ Shahirah Bazzi — piano (intro), translator, artwork editor