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Band Name: A Love Ends Suicide
Album Name: In The Disaster
Rating: 4 / 5 User Rating: 3.8 / 5
Label: Metal Blade
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Tracklist
1. Cold Summer
2. In The Disaster
3. Of Day Dream And Fantasy
4. Lets Spark To Fire
5. The Black Art
6. Romance Creates Killers
7. Amadeus
8. Another Revolution
9. Dying To Be Beautiful
10. Skate Junction
11. Heroes Of Faith
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As I Lay Dying, a band that is fairly new in the scheme of things, has done pretty well for itself as one of the leaders of what you might call the nu-metalcore scene. I say nu-metalcore because mixing metal and hardcore music is something that has been going on since the late nineteen eighties with bands like Biohazard and debatably, Nuclear Assault. However, the general public didn't seemed to notice until the late nineties/early new millennium when a whole slew of new generation metal-core bands came out like All That Remains and As I Lay Dying. Some have even gone so far as to call this new generation 'Gothencore' because many of the bands have incorporated melodic death metal elements to the music similar to the music coming out of places like Gothenburg, Sweden. As I Lay Dying has definitely done this, and so has A Love Ends Suicide, a band that is actually the first band to be signed to As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambsis' new label High Impact Recordings (which he put together with the help of Metal Blade Records). On this label, A Love Ends Suicide has released the hard hitting album'In The Disaster'.
As Expected, A Love Ends Suicide is somewhat similar to As I Lay Dying, but not entirely. ALES have more classical and traditional metal elements than AILD. In fact the only time you even remember that ALES is partially a punk/hardcore band is when the clean vocals come in over the yelling/growling ones like on 'Romance Creates Killers' and 'Another Revolution'. The clean vocals have that high pitched, slightly whiney punk tone to them that many hardcore bands use. The music however, is very much metal, with pounding double bass, virtuoso guitar solos, and dramatic build ups. The choruses are melodic and have that catchy punky feel, but they are executed in a very metal style with shredding guitars and a heavy rhythm section playing the tune. ALES's sound works well because the listener is not jarred by complete switches in style during a song. The punk, metal and classic elements are fused together. 'In The Disaster' is also a very hard hitting album. It comes at you running and never stops. There are absolutely no ballads or slow songs on the album, every track have the pounding blast beat drums, growling vocals, and intense lead guitar. There are no keyboards in ALES either, so most of the melody is in the vocals. Songs like 'Heroes of Faith' for example have very little intro, just a few heavy bars of guitar, then the crazy fast lead guitar kicks in along with the blast beats and growling vocals.
Its kind of funny to think that punks and metal heads didn't really get along in the early eighties because ultimately the two groups had the same goal: holding up the middle finger to authority and rocking ones ass off; they just each had a slightly different way of going about it. Obviously the children of these people figured this out and fused the two groups and music styles together and now they are heavily intertwined. There are still some differences, certain bands on Ozzfest probably wouldn't make it onto the Warped Tour and vise versa, but there are a lot of bands out there, like ALES, that would work on either tour and that is a beautiful thing. Music is music and if it conveys the message and emotion intended then who cares what styles are used to do this. Metal and punk fans alike should definitely check out 'In the Disaster' to hear some well played, well written music.
Review by: Colette Claire
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