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Engage – The End Of Heartache
Rating: If you haven't heard of Killswitch Engage then you must have been living under a rock for the past few years (which, is not necessarily a bad thing). This is because during those past few years, Killswitch have experienced a rapid and much deserved rise to fame. After finishing a highly successful Ozzfest tour and a hectic run of assorted other tours, the band headed back to the studio in order to write and record the follow-up to 2002's acclaimed sophomore release, ‘Alive Or Just Breathing?' For those of you who are unfamiliar with
the band, Killswitch are another one of those hardcore-meet-melody
acts, but - unlike most – they manage to pull it off with style, finesse
and even credibility. If you're still having trouble imagining their music
in your limited-capacity mind, think of Lamb Of God, Shadows Fall and Soilwork,
with more softer, melodic passages acting as bridges between chunky-arsed
metal riffing and catchy double-kick drumming patterns.
Oddly enough, old fans couldn't have hoped
for a better result. Despite losing a major band member, Killswitch sound
tighter, harder, and more at ease than ever before. Stylistically the band
has refused to change one iota – to some minor detriment. While Killswitch
has been hailed by the majority of mainstream media as the forefront of
the ‘New Wave Of American Metal', the major drawback for playing easily
identifiable, mid-tempo metal can be heard after several spins of the disc.
How many riffs-against-double-bass can the band create without sound derivative?
How does one stop a fairly predictable structure from forcing the band
into a spiral of uncreative, sterile, indifference?
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