✦✧✧✧ Light The Torch (née Devil You Know) take a giant step toward metalcore mediocrity with this, ostensibly now just The Howard Jones Show. There’s almost no perceptible energy on this album whatsoever, and every single three-minute song is probably at least a minute too long. See the rest here
★★☆☆ DYK take a definitive step closer to djenty metalcore. The brutals are even more brutal than last time, and that’s the good news. The bad news (and this is indeed news to me) is that apparently you can’t really pull off the clean singing metalcore thing with a detuned 8-string sound, at all. See the rest here
★★★☆ This isn’t just a simple amalgam of styles that you tend to get with metal supergroups, but an interesting bit of exploration away from their metalcore and thrashy origins. When it works, anyway; sometimes the experiments fall flat. And overall there’s a haunting similarity to the Frankenstein quality I remember hearing on many of the Roadrunner United album. See the rest here
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