The Architects of Guilt

The Famine are a Solid State Records band. That band says they have Christian members, but are not a Christian band. They also have members of Embodyment. It looks like those guys reattached their balls and started playing metal again.


I would be lying if I didn't say I had preconceived notions on what the band would sound like due to their record label. I was expecting generic metalcore with a spirit filled message. I was also not willing to believe they were actually death metal like they were being touted as. Well, I was right and wrong at the same time. Often people wrongfully call The Black Dahlia Murder metalcore. Well, The Famine sounds like what Black Dahlia would sound like if they didn't write good riffs and actually had metalcore parts, ie breakdowns.


Architects of Guilt did surprise me more than once. They often toe the line between melodic death metal and metalcore pretty well and never came across as deathcore. They mix the Gothenburg sound with a good touch of death/thrash, and break it all down with a large helping of metalcore influences.


Like The Black Dahlia Murder, my main gripe with The Famine are the high vocals. They get to be very monotonous. Thankfully they're not nonstop. As I said, the album surprised me more than one, but on a whole it wasn't filled with many surprises. If I want to listen to The Black Dahlia Murder I'll do so, I don't really need a copy. This album may turn a few heads amongst Solid State followers, but in the rest of the world of metal it will float along as an average release.