Inhale Exhale – Bury me Alive
Posted on October 06, 2009 at 10:48 pm by admin
As always, every album that comes our way gets a fair shot. If a band can make a great nu-metal album, then we’re prepared! In this day and age though one of the big styles of music is metalcore, and my feeling is that the genre itself isn’t inherently bad, I just dislike how people have lost their focus on what it should be about.
The album started off heavy enough, and I was willing to let go of the fact that Inhale Exhale were using Acacia Strain style breakdowns in the opening track, but quickly the album turned into Underoath meeting Every Time I Die without the southern friend part. It’s like a noisy, jagged post-hardcore merging the urgency of early dissonant Every Time I Die moving between shimmering chords and arpeggios. The clean singing isn’t quite a whine, but is doe fit in with Underoath and Norma Jean, while the metalcore screaming doesn’t have a face. And of course you’ve got the racing to those single-note breakdowns…
Over the years, we’ve considering a 3/5 the minimum to essentially get a “thumbs up” is we were translating that score for Siskel and Ebert. Metalcore as a whole is starting to render itself no longer relevant as a form of actually expressing anything beyond “mosh pit”. So score of a 2.5/5 is “Meh. Take it or leave it”.
Released October 6th, 2009
Inhale Exhale at MySpace
Solid State Records at MySpace
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