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A Love Ends Suicide - In This Disaster

Rating

RIYL

Haste The Day
A Dozen Furies
As I Lay Dying

Label

Metal Blade

Tracklist

1. Cold Summer
2. In The Disaster
3. Of Day Dream And Fantasy
4. Lets Spark To Fire
5. The Black Art
6. Romance Creates Killers
7. Amadeus
8. Another Revolution
9. Dying To Be Beautiful
10. Skate Junction
11. Heroes Of Faith

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Rick Gebhardt	jared

Remember how your mother used to tell you "first impressions mean everything?" Apparently, no one told the guys in A Love Ends Suicide that before they chose their extremely cliche name. Get past that hurdle, however, and you'll find some decent metalcore with a positive message.

Those familiar with the band's 2005 indie release, A Cycle of Hope, will experience some deja vu listening to In This Disaster. Thankfully, the seven tracks (out of eleven) that made it on this release were rerecorded and retooled for this release. The vocal attack this time around, unfortunately, just doesn't have quite the edge found on their previous release. The rest of the band makes up for it with the little things, though. Tracks such as "Cold Summer" and "Another Revolution" contain embellished frills when compared to their previous incarnations. In fact, most of the tracks benfit from the thicker sound save for the aforementioned vocals. Out of the new tracks found on this record, the closer, "Heroes of Faith," is the most promising. It contains a satisfying amount of crunch as well as their signature melodic vocal harmonies.

In This Disaster is also the debut offering from the recently launched imprint High Impact Recordings. As an imprint of Metal Blade, the label is in good hands with Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying fame and it will be interesting to see what other kinds of acts they bring into the fold. Hopefully, the label doesn't get too cemented into the metalcore genre as that would surely mean an untimely end to the project.

Sadly, A Love Ends Suicide fails to rise above the large pool of metalcore bands present in today's metal scene. While the band showed promise on A Cycle of Hope, it feels like this release was pushed out too quickly. They could've benefited from spending a few months in the studio writing completely new material and exploring some new musical territory. In This Disaster isn't terrible, and there is much for a diehard metalcore fan to enjoy, but there is nothing that catapults them out of fast becoming overgrown genre.

--Jared Mehle