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This album is the debut for Chatham basted band
Breaking The Day who since 2007 have experienced
a lot in the form of shows. The cover for the album
just screams out atmospheric progressive rock so
I instantly thought of bands like Porcupine Tree
and Tool. I wasn’t entirely wrong with my
presumptions as they do produce a form of progressive
metal but unlike the legends of the genre they haven’t
really achieved greatness with this record.
To start with let’s take a look at the vocals
which have a tendency to repeatedly change from
high pitched screaming with a hint of a whiney squeal
to an attempt at some really deep death metal growling
with not much success as it doesn’t really
sound as thick as it should. Next up to take a look
at would be the actual music behind the vocals;
the style is quite heavy on the bass and quite dropped
in quite a few of the songs giving a sort of sinister
twang that rings out which each note which is quite
cool and had a lot of potential to mix and integrate
with little licks and riffs, however they don’t
they proceed to play near enough the same thing
over and over again until the song is finished,
its repetitive and gets really boring really quickly.
The intro’s as well start to get on my tits
after a while, they are far too long especially
in songs such as “Leave a Blanket of Ash on
the Ground” and “Nightmare Dependancies”
(which is also spelt wrong I do believe) take over
a minute to kick in and then there aren’t
even any lyrics or verses just the odd scream and
the same chord sequences over and over.
Whilst I have talked about all the pitfalls and
problems I have with the music there is a light
at the end at the tunnel; like I previously mentioned
with their sound they have so much they could do
with it and so many different paths, the band are
not a lost cause they merely need to find something
to give their sound a bit of a kick and push them
up the ranks within their genre.
Tracks like “The Streets will Rain with Blood
Tonight” and “Pretty Girls Make Graves”
show the extent of their sound and you can just
picture all the different directions that they could
flow into. Breaking The Day certainly have options
and are not a lost cause to be written off into
a sea of fast failed prog bands but if they just
continue to produce records exactly the same as
this then they are at risk of ending up that way
some day.
2/5
Review by James Webb |
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Jay
Aaron
Bobby
Louie
Mikey
Chris |
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1. Intro
2. The Streets Will Rain With Blood Tonight
3. Leave A Blanket Of Ash On The Ground
4. Hours (Broken Clocks)
5. Pretty Girls Make Graves
6. ...And In The End What Is Love Without Loss
7. A Murder Of Crows
8. The Boy Who Escaped From Wolves
9. Nightmare Dependancies
10. No Love Lost, Just Forgot
11. Till Death
12. Outro |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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