Album title: Madness
Artist: All That Remains
Genre: Metalcore/Alt-Metal/Industrial Metal
Nationality: American
Release date: April 28
Position in Discography: Eighth
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Average RYM Score: 2.00
Got to clean the cloying taste of all that bad country music out of my mouth. Yuck! Hopefully this will be aggressive and loud (huh? Yeah, that's what I said) and shake out the cobwebs. Well it's that all right, but there are some decent melodic, even progressive touches to the music here. Don't think a lot of the vocalist (oh big surprise) but it's still better than listening to Adam Wotsit whine about whisky and/or women, or his daddy's farm, or whatever the **** he was wittering on about with yer wan on the last album. Also the vox get much better on “Nothing I Can Do”, which is actually pretty damn catchy with a fine hook in the chorus. “If I'm Honest” is even better, almost a ballad, with some great clean vocals, but when they kick it up again with “Halo”, I'm still onboard, dude!
There's a good mix of fast, frenetic, aggressive metal and catchy tunes on this album, mad, growly singers juxtaposed with clean vocals, a lot of hooks, even some radio-friendly stuff. And the odd country-styled track, like “Back to You” and the Garth Brooks cover (I kid you not!) at the end. Versatile, and very enjoyable for sure. Don't see any evidence of Industrial Metal though, I gotta say.
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