posted 09/01/2005 (Thu) @ 10:55 pm
>>> Music Reviews
As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security (2005)
Faulkner would be reduced to four letter words over this.
- Meaning In Tragedy
- Confined
- Losing Sight
- The Darkest Nights
- Empty Hearts
- Reflection
- Repeating Yesterday
- Through Struggle
- The Truth Of My Perception
- Control Is Dead
- Morning Waits
- Illusions
Take a listen to the sound samples and tell me any two of those sound at all different. It’s the same damn manic panic drum beat set against the same solid state wasp-in-a-jar buzzsaw guitar with the same four-year-old-in-a-grocery-store screaming on all 12 tracks of this godawful mess of an album.
What’s more, even if I were a mutant, I wouldn’t have enough fingers and toes to count the number of bands that sound exactly like As I Lay Dying that will be completely forgotten and laughed about in five years in the same way that people laugh about Whitesnake and Poison today.
If you’re into this, go to the source — the band In Flames — for actual MUSIC and wake up to how gullible you’ve been for listening to tardcore all this time. I’ll be here rolling in my grave to the sound of my fury.
Tags: awesome album art, crap, metal, metalcore
