Search - Diecast :: Tearing Down Your Blue Skies

Tearing....your ear drums apart!

Kabulnation | Windham, ME USA | 06/24/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"These guys are out of Boston with their third album here "Tearing Down Your Blue Skies". New singer Paul Stoddard is unveiled in this album. His vocals have great versatility as he will be heard here with grunts, shouts, shrieks, and melodic singing that change almost effortlessly it seems. The instrumental teammates wont dissappoint either, but you can tell the aim of these guys is to put together great song writing ability and performance, in other words they dont wnat to go into a thousand directions musically at once. Early highlights are "Fire/Damage", "Torn from Within", and "Savior" which succeed for their tight-fisted, start-stop rhythmic barrage and their smart, melodic hooks. However they also enjoy a full unaviodable "heavy metal" on par with post-hardcore, post-nu metal, metal bands such as "God Forbid", "Shadows Fall", or "Killswitch Engage". This is not a single downside to this entire album the keep the same excellent formula going throughout, which leaves one to believe Diecast may be just a few degrees away from achieving theboilingpoint in a few years.



1.Fire Damage - 8/10

2.Seize the day - 7/10

3.Torn From Within - 8.5/10

4.Savior - 9/10

5.Rise and Oppose - 7.5/10

6.Sacrifice - 8/10

7.Medieval - 9.5/10

8.Traitor - 6/10

9.These Days - 6.5/10

10.Pendulum - 9/10

11.Rebirth - 5/10



Total - 84/110 or 7.6/10"

Not exactly a masterpiece, but...

Cleaver | 06/20/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"ok, first of all, this is in no way revolutionary, or origional, or a masterpiece. It is simply a good metal album, nothing more. Personally i liked the album, being a fan of the thrash scene, it's nice to see diecast bring a bit of the old 80's thrash and update it, it makes an awesome song. You won't like this if you dont like metal, but i'm assuming if you're here you like metal. I'm not an expert, i'm 15, i listen to a ton of music new and old, from Tool, to The Rolling Stones, to Weezer, to Slayer. So i'm all over the place musically, and this cd just happens to be one of my favourites at the moment, and is getting pretty heavy rotation in my cd. Like other reviewers said, this is not LoG, or Shadows Fall. Both of those bands are awesome, but dont expect anything like either of them on here. Rise and Oppose and Fire Damage were the best tracks in my opinion, but it's all pretty good."

Fair...

Bill Lumbergh | Initech | 03/31/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I first heard of Diecast when I bought Shadows Fall's "The War Within" at a record store. There was a CD sampler encased with tracks by God Forbid, The Haunted, HeavenShallBurn and Stampin' Ground as well. "Medieval" fails to hook in the very beginning, but when they stop the singing and it starts to have a Hatebreed-esque feel to it, this is the part of the song that catches me. "Rise and Oppose" is a better track with a catchy intro. Overall, I give this 3 stars, as it sounds a lot like Shadows Fall and Killswitch Engage, but it's decent. Now I have to get lucky and find the first two Diecast releases, "Day Of Reckoning" and "Undo The Wicked". I heard that the record company Diecast released these CD's is going under, so there may be no chance at reissuing them, unless Diecast re-released them on Century Media, just like Cryptopsy and Krisiun did with their first two albums. (Cryptopsy rules, Krisiun sucks.)"