Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
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Free Music Notes for The Oncoming Storm
Free Music Review: A Category 5 "Storm"
Hit: 5 Stars
What Seattle was to grunge and alternative rock in the Nineties, the state of Massachusetts has become to metal and hardcore in this decade. Boston-based Unearth is yet another band to spring from this fertile musical soil. What distinguishes them from their peers is a sound that veers more to the "hardcore" side of metalcore and their reputation for incendiary, leave-it-all-on-stage live performances. Unearth's songs are thick with mosh-inducing breakdowns and while melody runs through many of the riffs, you'll find very little in the way of melodic clean singing here. What little there is gets handled by guitarist Ken Susi; lead vocalist Trevor Phipps is strictly a screamer. Apparently Phipps was also a big Rage Against The Machine fan growing up, because his vocal style and politically left-of-center lyrics resemble Zack de la Rocha in his more metal moments, especially on tracks like "The Great Dividers," "Lie To Purify," "Black Hearts Now Reign," and "Zombie Autopilot" (which also sounds a bit like Rise Against gone metal.) His voice is the perfect compliment to the heavy slabs of blistering, 7-string riffs laid down by the tag-team guitar attack of Ken Susi and Buzz McGrath, with the rhythm section of drummer Mike Justian and bass player John "Slo" Maggard providing a more-than-solid foundation for their bandmates to thrash on. (Maggard also shows some skill at the piano on the haunting and atmospheric "Aries," the only time the band takes a breather on a CD of boot-to-the-throat intensity.) Tie it all together with the pristine production and engineering of Adam Dutkiewicz, and you have a metal album brutal and abrasive enough to piss off the neighbors, but musically and lyrically intelligent enough to grab and hold your attention. On both stage and CD, Unearth brings the ruckus and represents the hardest edge of the Mass Metal scene in style. Free Music Review: Sandwiched by better albums
Hit: 3 Stars
Of Unearth's three albums, this is probably their worst, though its not bad. Stings of Conscience is a great, raw hardcore sound, III: in the Eyes of Fire is refined, superfast european death/american metalcore hybrid. This album? the least fast, least heavy, and least effective.
There are moments that are great, true, but more moments where it gets kinda boring: not quite heavy but no real effort at something melodic. In that way it resembles nu-metal, though this band is way more talented, and sometimes on this disc, it shows.
Problem is #1) they sound way better before and after this one, and #2) most other metalcore bands sound like this.
Long story short, get their other albums.
Free Music Review: Excellent
Hit: 4 Stars
I hesitated to listen to Unearth for awhile for some reason, but I regret that after hearing this CD. I found that this is quality work. Although this band is categorized as metalcore, they have a definite melodic death metal influence as well, especially on tracks like Black Hearts Now Reign and most obviously on Zombie Autopilot, which sounds extremely similar to In Flames.
The negatives? I personally prefer more clean vocals and more coherent screams, but this is just me, and the Rage Against the Machine-esque chants that appear in just about every track don't seem to fit in well to this style of music. Overall, a must have for any metalcore or melodeath fan.
Free Music Review: Pure Metalcore
Hit: 5 Stars
I definitely hate the way the rythm and speed constantly change as if the band did'nt know what they were doing,but after afew listens,I became more and more impressed. This album is just great. If you're not use to the Metalcore sound,give it time. You'll learn to love this messy masterpiece...Although "Bloodlust" is pretty organized. Stand-out tracks for me: Bloodlust of The Human Condition,This Lying World,Endless and Predetermined Sky. Great sh*t,man.Free Music Review: Headbanger Candy!
Hit: 4 Stars
I love this album, full of heavy chops, pounding drums and no cheesy cream puff ballads. It's too bad they have so many bands have this same forumla and sound because I think Unearth does this type of metal with great style and aptitude. They have all the awesome breakdowns I live to hear and they aren't afraid to exploit them. This is good stuff if you like a guy with a killer scream, awesome guitars and a few solos that are decent.