The boy Will Drown – Fetish
Posted on November 09, 2009 at 11:36 am by admin
I have a tendency to think that most technical metalcore and Meshuggah/The Dillinger Escape Plan style bands miss the point of the bands who influenced them. Sure, they are plenty technical, but they allowed their skill to pull them to different levels of creativity.
The boy Will Drown do hold over some influences from The Dillinger Escape Plan and Meshuggah, though the influence of those bands is a bit more below the surface, typically covered up by technical and/or progressive runs and standard jazzy interludes with a decent amount of dissonance, blast beats, and hardcore barks, the mid-ranged yell coming closest to the more hardcore vocalist half of Despised Icon. And there’s a significant amount of blasting on this album.
The production does make the album sound much more low-end heavy, which is helped by a good portion of the action taking place on the lower strings of the guitar, as many bands of this sort play so many runs that the bottom falls out. Of course, I also remember the albums from earlier bands of this style, so what they lacked in production they made up for with passion and crazy ideas.
While “Fetish” might be in fact crazy, grindy, technical noise, the crazy ideas come from another place. It does have the upside of good production, as those snare drums could whack as hard as baseball bats, and those people who dig this sort of album will find a lot more blasting action and low-end to give some minor differences to other albums of this sort.
Released June 16th, 2009
The boy Will Drown at MySpace
Earache Records at MySpace
Buy this album at Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
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