in space, no one can hear you scream
where do you go after metalcore? most bands in the scene seem to be nearing this point where they either don't seem to like what they were doing or they want to break into the mainstream with a more accessible version of their sound. so what does that mean? it's time to do the thing everyone does, dig 20 years into the past and blend in the popular sound of that time; in this case we're channeling in nu-metal and arena rock.
many members have quoted this as their most honest record yet, and lyrically i hear that. however, this is the same angst that most people hated on in the nu-metal bands of years past. i can look past this most of the time, but some of these lyrics are mad cheesy. musically, we're dealing with a lot of that cheese too; every track has this sludgy feel to it that works for some and not at all for others. simply put, it's a trek to get through this stuff.
i wouldn't say that this is a bad album, but it just doesn't do any of what it tries to do better than its contemporaries, past and present. it's better than real though.
top tracks: trapped, oxy, sellout, suffocating
