Genres: Alternative Metal
The life-problems of teenagers get a workout on this metal album. For this band's credit, they try to make ugly death-metal inspired music sound melodic with toning down the aggression and turning up the electronics to underscore the choruses and adding actual singing. What acts against the band is that this is very much directed at teenagers and young adults. This limits its appeal but this market will probably be lucrative enough to sustain many bands like this. The opening track 'Can You Feel My Heart' sounds like it was made to be put on a Resident Evil movie soundtrack. This song is very much like the kind of stuff put out by bands such as Evenessence and Linkin Park a few years back but with a more shout-a-long chorus. This formula is reused in other tracks such as 'Sleepwalking', 'Empire (Let the Sing)' and 'Go to Hell For Heaven's Sake'. In the song 'Antivist' the singer calls-out people who conform as "c**ts" and on 'Crooked Young' he screams "f**k your faith". This is all tailor made for young people to annoy their parents with. Unfortunately for the band I don't live with my parents anymore and I don't really want to annoy my partner.
Here is the video for the song 'Shadow Moses'
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