 
I am starting to think that I have been living
under a rock somewhere as recently everywhere
I look I see Motionless In White and every time
I see big captions saying how the band are going
to be massive and also become everyone’s
favourite new band so as soon as I saw the band
were re-releasing their debut album ‘Creatures’
I just knew I had to give it a listen.
Looking at Motionless In White you would be forgiven
for thinking that the band want to be like the
Black Veil Brides as the image of the band is
like a more darker variation of that of the Black
Veil Brides but as soon as ‘Creatures’
opens with ‘Immaculate Misconception’
you just know that Motionless In White are nothing
like the Black Veil Brides soundwise and have
a sound that will get you hooked and shatter your
hearing at the same time.
As you get further through listening to ‘Creatures’
you can see that Motionless In White have spent
a lot of time in writing, recording and generally
creating the album as they have put so much into
it the sound they have combines metal, screamo,
pop, punk, industrial and cramed it together in
one massive listenable way where at one moment
you will be hearing crunching guitar riffs and
extremely raw screamy vocals and then the next
you will be treated to pulsing synths and beautiful
sounding sing-a-long vocals.
The album title track ‘Creatures’
is a great song and opens in a bit of a tub-thumper
way with loud drum beats and machine gun style
riffs, the great thing about the song is how the
track was actually written by the bands fans apart
from the chorus which show how much the band appreciate
their fans and vice versa, as the song progresses
it becomes very melodic which leaves you understanding
how it became a single release for the band.
There are so many great songs featured on the
album such as ‘London In Terror’,
‘Abigal’, ‘ Cobwebs’,
‘Puppets (The First Snow)’ and ‘Scissorhands
(The Last Snow)’ however ‘Puppets
(The First Snow) and ‘Scissorhands (The
Last Snow)’ are my favourite tracks on the
album, ‘Puppets’ because it is easily
the heaviest track on the album and features some
fantastic breakdowns and backing growls, and ‘Scissorhands
(The Last Snow)’ because the song is about
Edward Scissorhands and it has so much going on
giving the song a slight horror movie feel to
it, the guitars are huge sounding, the vocals
are a big mix of clear sounding vocals and screamo
vocals whilst the keyboard work adds a massive
atmospheric feel.
The re-release of ‘Creatures’ features
a couple of extra tracks and remixes that weren’t
featured on the original release and normally
I’m not to interested in remixes and stuff
like this but after listening to ‘Creatures’
(Beauty Remix By Celldwell my mind has changed
because the song has been proper beefed up and
also has a slight dance floor anthem feel about
it at the same time.
Overall despite being two years old ‘Creatures’
is a solid album, I am not sure that the added
remixes on the re-release is going to be enough
to keep the hardcore fans ticking over until the
release of album number 2 later in the year but
what I do know is that Motionless In White will
be gaining a bigger fan base now ‘Creatures’
has been re-released as it is a massive sounding
album and anyone who missed it the first time
will be a fool not to pick it up now.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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