Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Unearth Title: III: In the Eyes of Fire Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Metal Blade Original Release Date: 1/1/2006 Re-Release Date: 8/8/2006 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal Style: Hardcore & Punk Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 039841457421 |
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Member CD Reviews Kenneth W. (Eyesore) from TAUNTON, MA Reviewed on 12/4/2007... Metalcore annoys me. With so many amazing metal bands out there, and an equal number of killer hardcore bands, it baffles me that when putting the two together it more often than not produces mediocre results. Too often a metalcore band starts off more like a traditional hardcore band, then over the course of just a few albums they progress more toward the metal end of the spectrum. The problem with this is it doesn't sound like a natural evolution. It seems too forced, like the band members took courses at Metalcore University, but didn't study hard enough. The course schedule looking somewhat like this prior to them dropping out:
Semester 1: Hardcore For Dummies Semester 2: Metal Riffs and Scales: The Basics Semester 3: Metal Riffs and Scales: The Basics Semester 4: Metal Riffs and Scales: The Basics Semester 5: Metalcore: The Theory of Cookie-Cutter Songwriting Extracurricular: St. Anger: The Greatest Metal Album of All-Time Extracurricular: Solos Are Gay Extracurricular: Breakdowns? Fuck yes! Every song! Extracurricular: Solos Are Gay II Unearth have pretty much followed this same pattern over the course of two EPs and two full-lengths prior to this, their third full-length, III: In The Eyes Of Fire. This, of course, is not necessarily a bad thing. I'll always maintain that a good song is a good song regardless of the ingredients or the manner in which it was written. So, while offering nothing special in terms of metalcore, Unearth haven't completely come up short. To their credit, one thing that Unearth avoids is the standard screaming verse, cleanly-sung chorus, which, given the success of their last album, The Oncoming Storm, would have been an easy cash-grab maneuver. In fact, there are no cleanly-sung vocals to be found on this album. III: In The Eyes Of Fire starts off strong with "The Glorious Nightmare," a standard metalcore tune, but a great one. "Giles," the lead-off single, is another great tune: aggressive, heavy, and dynamic. "Sanctity Of Brothers" is another killer track -- my favorite on the album. The first twenty-five seconds of "This Time Was Mine" is pure speed/power metal, however it quickly dives back down into the muck of metalcore cliche, but remains a great song. At this point, with four of the first six songs being excellent showcases of metalcore prowess, you've heard it all. This is where the album begins its steady decline. "So It Goes" begins with more power metal-like riffing, which is excellent, but it quickly hits a brick wall; it does, for those curious, feature the album's only solo -- which, surprisingly, is nearly a minute long and very good. "Impostors Kingdom" and "Bled Dry" are both jumbled messes, with only brief flashes of greatness. The rest of the tracks, minus the very cool instrumental track "Big Bear And The Hour Of Chaos," are simply middle-of-the-road metalcore tracks, neither great nor terrible; they're just there. The problem with the album is not that there are really any bad songs, but simply that taken as a whole the album lacks dynamics. It becomes tedious. After a point the songs just bleed into each without much separating one from the other. The choruses, for the most part, severely lack hooks. This takes away from each song having its own identity; the songs become faceless in a faceless crowd. Everything sounds great, everything is played well for what it is, but III: In The Eyes Of Fire is like Candy Corn: the first few bites are great, the next couple are OK, any more than that is simply just too much; try again next year. Website: http://www.unearth.tv MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/unearth CD ReviewsWhat are you all talking about this album is excellent CRV | New York City | 08/26/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "I think reviewers are to critical on this album for all the wrong reasons. Unearth is a metalcore band and this album succeeds at being great in that genre. Its aggressive, has very catchy pounding riffs and awesome musical solos. By the way unearth do sound unique compared to all the other cookie cutter bands out there. Anytime an album can put an adrenaline rush in you is when it is the epitome of great metal. Unearth has done that in their first 3 albums. With this album they really excelled with the aggression and catchy hooks with Giles, Sanctity of brothers, March of the mutes." METAL in Capital Letters D'Ann | AZ | 09/25/2008 (4 out of 5 stars) "One glance at the cover of this Unearth CD should give you a hint of its contents; iron gray shields, skulls, thorns and battle axes against a field of deepest black. Like many other bands desperate to escape the "metalcore" tag, Unearth has set out to prove they are a F***ING METAL band by making the hardest, fastest and fiercest music of their careers on this effort. To that end, they called in producer Terry Date of Pantera, Soundgarden and early Deftones fame, instead of previous collaborator (and Mr. Metalcore himself) Adam Dutkiewicz. The result is an album that is far more rough and organic sounding than the group's previous releases; Date's production style leaves some ragged edges that Adam D would have polished away. "In The Eyes Of Fire" comes about as close as you can to capturing on CD the raw energy that Unearth is known for as a live act, a definite advantage to Date's approach. A disadvantage, however, is that lead vocalist Trevor Phipps loses some of his effectiveness, which is too bad, because Phipps has definitely grown lyrically on this CD. While his left-wing politics are still on display in tracks like "March Of The Mutes," "The Devil Has Risen" and "Impostors Kingdom," "Glorious Nightmare" is a portrait of the struggle against addiction, and the songs "Sanctity of Brothers" and "This Time Was Mine" respectively eulogize a friend who overdosed and a terminally ill family member. The song "Giles" is a history lesson. One of the few men to be charged during the Salem witch trials, Corey Giles chose to be crushed to death under stones rather than plead guilty because to do so would have prevented his sons from inheriting his land. The one disappointment is the album's final track, the instrumental "Big Bear and the Hour of Chaos." Despite an unexpected piano interlude courtesy of bassist John Maggard, this track sounds mostly like a case of "Well, we've got this cool song, but our singer can't come up with any decent lyrics, so we'll call it an instrumental and use it to close the CD." Nice try, but next time either spin the song out and show what you can do musically (there's no doubt these guys can play), or leave it off altogether. There's always the next CD, and if Unearth keeps making solid efforts like this one, their fans will eagerly await whatever they do next."
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