Veil of Silence

Oh, no… why deathcore? What foul beast came up with the genre and what self-respecting metalhead would actually play the music? I gotta be perfectly honest here and say I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone but emokids would like this. By that I don’t mean Insane Therapy in particular, but deathcore as a concept overall. I don’t really understand why the band decided to send me a copy of the release either, seeing as I don’t really deal with core-ish metal genres. But I’ll still do my best to try and give it as decent of a review as possible.

As One thousand why begins I think to myself that while the riffing sucks at least they got the speed down. As the vocals set in I lose a bit of hope for a good listening experience, as it’s just too core-ish in style. And as it’s time for the chorus the clean vocals suddenly appear, and I’ve completely lost all hope. I mean… why… why clean vocals? It just feels emo, like a teenage kid who encloses him/herself in a room, listening to whatever crap it is that emo kids listen to (Whitechapel maybe, I don’t know) and thinking ‘I hate my mom’. For crying out loud, if you’re gonna play metal at least do it for real. But ok, I’ll say it again, I’ll try to write a fair review anyway.

Riff-wise it lands somewhere in the vicinity of thrash metal influenced metalcore, to be honest. There really aren’t that many moments where I feel the actual death metal influences, the death part comes through mostly in the drum department. Of course there are the typical breakdown moments you’d expect from this style, but they also actually really blast like crazy at times, something Where’s your god is a good example of. As mentioned before vocally it’s also quite typical of the style, with a semi-growling main voice and gnarly squeals as back-up. But they include some clean vocals, although relatively sparsely, and even a hardcore choir or two. At one time during the title track I even heard an attempt at piglet squeals. I suppose it is diverse and competent enough to be considered quite well-played, I mean it’s still tight and all, but the style is just so far from my comfort zone I just can’t hear anything intriguing about it. No matter how hard I try to get past my own judgmental state of mind I still find it annoying and way too melodic. This is just not my cup of tea.

Originally written for My Last Chapter