 
Blessthefall are set to release their fourth studio
album ‘Hollow Bodies’ in a couple
of days time and this time around the band hope
the album will see them climb to the top of the
post-hardcore scene and after listening to the
album a couple of times over I can confirm that
the potential is there as in ‘Hollow Bodies’
Blessthefall have come out guns-a-blazing with
their most aggressive record to date with a few
soppy moments for old time sake.
The album opens with ‘Exodus’ a song
which reminds me very much of Bring Me The Horizon
due to its aggressive nature and mad flurry of
soundscapes and general brutal execution, the
song also happens to be one of the longest running
tracks on the album clocking in at just under
5minutes and 30seconds which perfectly gives Blessthefall
the time to put pretty much everything in place
to show what they are all about, for 90% of the
song things are big and aggressive sounding and
for 10% things become chilled and quite melodic
as Beau Bokan sings his heart out.
‘You Wear A Crown But You’re No King’
opens up with a set of brutal gang vocals and
from this moment the song goes on a frantic journey
which features big breakdown, catchy choruses,
angry screams which overall give off a mad psychotic
sound.
One of the stand out tracks on the album has to
be ‘Youngbloods’ as the song is easily
the heaviest track on the album packing an almighty
punch from start to finish, the build ups and
break downs add dynamics to the song and the band
really lay the smack down when it comes to their
vocals and the guest appearance from Jesse Barnett
from Stick To Your Guns really adds to the overall
excitement and feel of the song.
There are a few guests throughout the album but
the most exciting happens to be frontman Beau
Bokan’s wife Lights who guests on the epic
closing track ‘Open Water’, the song
runs for a mammoth 7minutes and is abeautiful
sounding laid back song from start to where both
Beau Bokan and Lights are on top form with their
soothing vocals.
‘Hollow Bodies’ is easily the most
important album of Blessthefall’s career
so far and I feel that it has really lived up
to the hype as for the majority the band leave
you wanting to take on the world as you listen
to the aggressive sounds of ‘Exodus’,
‘Youngbloods’ etc but as soon as the
epic ‘Open Water’ comes in you are
left wanting to make peace with everyone in the
world as Blessthefall’s music does some
big talking.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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