The Big Dirty
Every Time I Die have been making metalcore fun throughout their entire career, but now on their new album,
The Big Dirty, their straight-up rock n’ roll influences are starting to seep in the most and establish a wonderful kingdom of good times. Keith Buckley’s yell is clearer than most vocalists in the genre, the lyrics are clever, and the band rarely slows down. Album opener “No Son of Mine” starts things off right with Keith closing the song out as an angry father figure, “Blaspheme! When you are under my roof, don’t ever say ‘Rock n’ Roll’”. “We’rewolf”, in addition to having a hilarious video, has one of the most badass riffs in the bridge that I’ve heard in a rock song in a long time.
“Rendez-voodoo” is as slow as it gets on here, and that means, not very slow at all. “INRihab” features guest vocals from the singer of post-hardcore band, Alexisonfire, and he adds a nice, melodic touch to this rugged crew from Buffalo. “Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Battery” shuts it all down with this warning to any fraudulent bands or artists out there : “It is better to destroy than create what is meaningless, So the picture will not be finished”. Any past-the-expiration-date metalcore bands should take that piece of advice seriously.
