Mondo Bungle

I may have to rethink somethings I said earlier, about Entheogen being top metalcore album and Zao having the best breakdowns. I have since revisited Undying's At History's End, and ****. Not having been around, I wouldn't know how much exposure they received or how influential they were, but they could have been forerunners to the metalcore of today.

Playing that style which would lean heavily to melodic death metal, I could see it being a new thing. Thing is, Undying do it right. All the poser bands these days going for the death metal side are just so lame. Undying come through with fierce, melodic, and epic riffing, where new bands play such derivative and stale riffs, topped off with production that makes it sound so much like ****. Undying come through with massive and crushing breakdowns, always at a perfect moment and always super awesome and interesting, where new bands throw breakdowns around willy nilly, they are abrupt, no transition, and even more uninspired than the riffs. It's like someone jammed this breakdown, and bands that followed are all thinking "Oh yeah, that's sick, we have to make breakdowns like that, all the time." Undying come through with shredding vocals a la melodeath, where new bands often utilize those horrendous cleans, mega queer. Undying come through with a general rabid aggression, creativity, and attitude, where new bands are watered down, always sounding like some pussy ****.

This a masterpiece, a perfect fusion of In Flames and Integrity that modern posers fail at miserably.

If anyone knows any more bands, let me know, **** rules.

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