Metalcore with touches of Swedish death metal from Minnesota. Multiple vocalists, usually heavy, a breakdown on most tracks and really nothing new. I think they pull it off, even if most tracks are interchangeable. They don’t lift to many obvious Swedish death metal sounds and don’t fall into too many techie cliché’s like all the Dillinger Escape Plan clones. Think Unearth or As I Lay Dying.
**1. Short, more techie sounding, heavy and fast.
2. Cliché thrash-y riffs and vocals that bother me for some reason. I think it’s because the screaming sounds too shallow.
3. Clean guitar arpegiation to open the track which sounds like a late 80s metal intro. Jazz-y guitar playing. The guitars are a mess on this track, they must be using overdubs and they aren’t synced up. Lots of ideas not put together so well.
4. Another track with a clean guitar intro and ends with nearly of minute of very quiet guitar, near silent.
5. Slower, more melodic with better, more brutal vocals. Somewhat quiet, classical guitar interlude with some “classy” metal guitar solos at the end.
OK stuff -mph