If Hope Dies Album Review

Band Name: If Hope Dies
Album Name: Life In Ruin
Rating: 3.5 / 5 User Rating: 4.3 / 5
Label: Metal Blade
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Tracklist
1. Burned Out
2. Anthem For The Unemployable
3. Dead Reckoning
4. Time Is Not On Our Side
5. Fear Will Keep Them In Line
6. Water Into Wine Cooler
7. The Ultimate Nullifier
8. Marked For Death
9. Some Skynyrd
10. Nuked From Orbit
11. Life In Ruin

If Hope Dies have got their metalcore stance perfected, as LIFE IN RUIN aptly exhibits this Upstate NY quintet's brutal brushstrokes. From dead-on screaming vocals that run with blood to the chugga-chugga guitar goodness found strewn about the entire 11-track disc, songs like 'Time is Not on Our Side' denote an outfit content on spewing forth hearty dollops of venomously vitriolic verse with the proper helpings of pounding rhythms and metallic melody in tow, whipping the pit into a frenzy. Merging the East Coast's slash and burn style a la Hatebreed with shards of Swedish technicality, LIFE IN RUIN is an album capable of creating utter chaos.

Review by: Mike SOS

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Comments

rockitt - 2006-04-15 07:40:59
heh, i ain't seen them live but theyre effin sweet without discussion
Duck - 2006-04-04 22:19:39
if hope dies is certainly sweet live, i couldnt believe their bassist, he was all over the neck on every song, fucking insane
Ryan - 2006-04-01 12:40:42
I saw them in concert, their insane
kyle!!! - 2006-03-28 15:21:24
damn right!!!

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