### Dead Label: Sense of slaughter

#### 20/02/12 || Detox

First of all, fuck you for making this album. I’m not normally that aggressive about reviewing an album, but come on! Want to know what’s in store on this recording? Average, monotonous high ranged typical metalcore shouts mixed with occasional really weak grunts. What else, you ask? Breakdowns… lots of breakdowns. Add in some mid tempo double bass, repetitious leads that go nowhere laced with irritable chugs and odd harmonics and you get a band that makes Hatebreed enjoyable by comparison. Take all that and add in the fact that every song sounds almost exactly like the one before it. To make matters worse the album even starts off with the overdone and unnecessary idea of having a set of very average melo-death riffs that GO NOWHERE and DON’T EVEN LEAD INTO THE FIRST ACTUAL TRACK. This is one of those bands that make the hybridization of hardcore and heavy metal look really bad and makes it increasingly hard for the small circle of bands lumped into the genre who are actually good at it get any sort of worthwhile recognition. Even in 2002/2003 when this sort of style was starting to blossom in the more mainstream metal scenes this would’ve been an uninteresting piece of music to come across. For the love of anything sacred, go listen to Ekotren, Earth Crisis, Walls Of Jericho or even Chimaira and let this disappear into the arms of the abyss like it deserves to. Can I have nu metal back now, please?

1.5/10: Is it sad that I’ve actually heard worse than this?