Similar Bands: Beneath The Massacre, White Chapel, Suicide Silence
Review:
Originality is something that is clearing lacking in the entire deathcore genre. Almost every album I have reviewed for this site that falls into that lackluster of a music style has sounded almost identical to the last band I listened too. Within The Ruins, while more gifted with talent than most, isn't an exception.
Here is a prime example of how doing too much can ruin something. This album is all over the place. Songs will start with super technical dueling guitars that resemble some of the wizardry that bands like Necrophagist can pull off. Then with stop on the dime precession they'll jump right into a bass-drop started breakdown and move right onto a Gothenburg influenced segment. Mix those parts in any order you want and you have the formula for all 10 tracks on this record. Oh and don't think it stops there. There are gang vocal parts that could have been pulled from any random hardcore record and at a few points during the record the singer will break into a quick Poison The Well like talking part. There isn't a single ounce of originality in this record that seems to be fueled by Attention Deficit Disorder.
While there isn't anything I haven't heard before on this record, the band does a good job of stringing it together in a way that isn't something I've really heard before. I think had the band opted to stick with elements closer related to eachother they wouldn't have come off as bland. The guitarists have an obvious high level of talent that is ultimately going to waste in a lame deathcore band on Victory Records. Force these guys to harness their energy and write a straight death metal record and we might have something that could top Necrophagist in the technical death metal world.
The deathcore genre is quickly becoming saturated and this band will most likely go unnoticed. Being on Victory Records isn't going to save them. If they expect to have any longevity as a band, they'll follow up this record with something more focused on their metal influences. They can keep the breakdowns if they really need to but they need to reduce all the other filler material.
Actually these guys sound nothing like suicide silence or any of the above. They sound more like Veil of Maya. Good stuff, but definitely not original.
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