Mourning The Unknown

General | Jan 2008

Reviews

Chump Delux
Reviewed 2008-02-16

Fast, heavy, switches seamlessly between metal, hardcore, a touch of grind and anything in between Full of fury, like a train. FCC on 13 & 15 but difficult to hear. Picks: 1,2,4,6,8,9,11,14,15,17


*1-1:13) AABA. Buzzing gui intro. Assault and fury. Math-tinged plan B. Tumbles right at end.
*2-0:32) Full intro. Violent, fast and steady. End sussed.
3-1:04) AABA. Starts running. Minor riffage throughout. Sudden end.
**4-1:49) Fast hardcore barrage, slow down and punk build.
5-1:03) Riffage intro. ABA. Fast metal. Slow plan B. Ends sussed.
**6-1:30) Riff intro. Mid. fast hardcore. Nice plan B riff. Ends sussed.
7-2:14) Prominent metal/rock riff throughout. ABA. Plan B, very slow bass/drum break simmers. Ends sussed.
**8-0:16) All out assault. Sudden end.
*9-1:04) Intro. ABA. Machine-like. A bit grindy. Plan B fast but conventional. Sudden end.
10-1:58) Opens slow with guitar whine and smoothly blends into speedy hardcore, oh now its metal. End sussed.
**11-1:04) Drum pattern starts off great initial fury til -:39. AABA. midpaced pained rock plan B. -:15 tongue-in-cheek? long, traditional breakdown ending.
12-0:12) Power violence assault. Sudden End.
13-2:01) Guitar whine. AABA. Bass/drum in militaristic unison breaks into hardcore "fucking" (unintelligible). instrumental/drum rolling B. Ends sussed at -:12.
**14-2:35) SERIOUSLY here-come-the-tanks heavy mid paced metal chug. Sinister fast metal. -:30 back to chug and held chord end.
*15-1:16) Full, fast intro. Barrelling hardcore. "shit" (unintelligible). No plan B here.
16-0:53) Starts full-on. ABA. Almost grind vocal and flurries with slow trudge plan B at -:40. Sudden end.
**17-1:20) Sparse, catchy intro. AABA. Unique slashy rhythmic vocal delivery and great bass/drums. Slow metal plan B. Sudden end.
18-0:22) Asault. Slows down a bit. Sudden End.
19-1:17) Starts full on. Metally with riffage. Sudden end.
20-0:51) Slower grind. Sudden end at -:02.
21-3:11) Slower drama intro. Slow, emotionally pained (drama-queen-metal). Ends held chord. Last 9 sec. silence.

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Charting

2008-02-18 — 2008-04-21 Loud
Week EndingAirplays
Apr 20 1
Apr 13 3
Apr 6 2
Mar 30 1
Mar 23 2
Mar 9 2
Mar 2 7
Feb 24 1

Track listing

1. Stolen Identity
2. Redefined
3. I Dare
4. Hunt Me
5. My Say Shall Be The Last
6. Voices
7. All Is Lost
8. Discontent
9. In Process
10. The Real
11. I Saw It Too
12. Hostage
13. Second Best
14. Denial
15. Come Final Rest
16. The Great Blackout
17. Reminder
18. Nothing In Return
19. Rise Of The Rejected
20. Deserve You
21. Solitary Confinement