Here is a band that I have been following for many years. They definitely were a more hard-core band with tinges of different sounds. They did a few records and the bands last record was met with a warm welcome by myself last time out. Now it is really the bands forth record, they have opened up the gates to everything. “Internal Revolution” opens up this record up-tempo and the pounding drums rule. They jam it all out with the vocals mainly on the more brash side and the vocals of the newer singer are just fucking awesome. They layer in some real clean and melodic vocals that take nothing away from the ever evolving sound. “Never Forget” serves a song with machinegun type riffs. This one stays more in the intense area thriving on nailing that riff into your head. “Hourglass” tunes down and slows down to a more mid-pace. The metal undertone is there but the vocals go way more cleanly on this one and they find them more in Sevendust like area. More shot in the face riffs fall on “Fractured” that is a more textbook in your facer. “Weakness” starts with what sounds very Slayer-ish and they are off to the races. Imagine Slayer with hard-core vocals then again they go more hard-core pit as the song changes and repeats the aggressive pounding you take on this track. They then shift to some more of that emo style for thirty seconds and repeat the pit pounding. Nice fret bending opens the 50% clean vocals and the other half more extreme. This is the track that is going to put them in the mouths of many a listener. “Out Of Reach” gets the steam up again with the sweet double bass pounding and very metal shred. They then throw the blend in the vocals again. A very different sounding thrash like track melding many different ways of expression. “S.O.S.” sees the band taking a more stomp in the face path. This is the more street sound showing through with a great riff wall backing it up as it is doing throughout this release. “Nothing I Could Say” takes it in a more accessible area opting for a more melodic track with smoother vocals. They redeem themselves on the next track supping some sweet guitar sounds, chirps and pound. This one is definitely more of a hard-core go for the street sound, very cool. “The Coldest Rain” serves up what many may say is sappy. WOW I was not ready to hear this. Holy crap it is a nice little ballad that ends it that sorta doesn’t fit. For the most part this is a cool release.
