There's always a mixed air when a band you love releases a new record. A mixture of nervousness that the record you've waited two years for will be a total flop and the excitement that it could just be your next favourite record ever. For me, this release does not quite hit either extremes. It's big and bold and takes on a sound that definitely screams maturity from the sounds observed on "Real." and "Life Cycles". One thing I will point out is their is definitely darker sound to this record, for me. Songs like "Trapped" and "Grunge" seem to touch darker subjects than you're likely to find on their previous showings.
Now, The Word Alive have always been your run-of-the-mill metalcore outfit and have never really strayed too far from that tag but I couldn't help notice that track 5 "Insane" seemed to lean a little in the direction of new age Linkin Park at least instrumentally. It's mellow synths and huge chorus' would make Chester Bennington proud.
For this writer, one of the only down points of the record is that it, sort of, "peters out". In other words it gets a little boring towards the end making, what was actually a pretty good record, less than memorable. The final track "Oxy" repeats the line "What have I done?" so often it begs the question did Telle run out of lyrics by the end of this album.
Rating: 7/10
Favorite Song: Grunge
By Thommy Lea
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