It Dies Today - The Caitiff Choir
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CalibanMnemic
Killswitch Engage
Age of Ruin
Release Date
09/21/2004
Label
TrustkillTracklist
1. My Promise2. Severed Ties Yield Severed Heads
3. The Radiance
4. The Depravity Waltz
5. A Threnody For Modern Romance
6. Marigold
7. Freak Gasoline Fight Accident
8. The Caitiff Choir:Revelations
9. Our Disintegration
10. Naenia
11. The Caitiff Choir:Defeatism
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Melodic metalcore is starting to seem like the next genre movement to be oversaturated with crap. In the 90’s it happened to grunge and rap metal. In the later 90’s it was radio rock and nu-metal. The last few years it seems that screamo has been the main victim. With many of the releases over the last few months and in the upcoming months, it would appear that metalcore and melodic metalcore will be the next genres to be hit with the dreaded “flood with crap” disease.
Knowing this, I’ve been decently impressed with a few of the melodic metalcore releases that have been put out recently, and It Dies Today is one of them. Their disc, “The Caitiff Chior”, is a solid example of what a good, competent melodic metalcore band should sound like. I would be more than happy if all of the forthcoming cookie-cutter bands would follow down the path It Dies Today are currently walking on.
What these guys bring to the musical table are brutal breakdowns, European metal inspired verses, and exquisitely melodic vocals accompanied by intense, guttural yells. These three things alone don’t make a good melodic metalcore band, but when they are molded together as well as It Dies Today puts them together, you have a disc that really works at both making you want to sing along and mosh the hell out of the guy next to you.
What also impresses me is the inclusion of a couple of quality guitar solos, the best being on “A Threnody for Modern Romance”, and some hardly noticeable keyboard touches. Most metalcore bands are only concerned with having crushing breakdowns or killer metal hooks (which It Dies Today do have, don’t get me wrong) instead of doing other little things to differentiate their songs from the crowd. Just by having something even as small as an occasional guitar solo, It Dies Today manages to set themselves apart from some of the chaff in the genre.
The only drawback to this cd is that there isn’t a ton of variation from song to song. At times, some of the choruses or breakdowns may seem similar to ones you’ve heard in other songs. Apparently, they must have known they do what they do well, so they were content to repeat it a few times, over just on different songs, which is unfortunate, but it could have been worse—they could have been bad at what they do and repeated it over and over!
Other than a slight bit of repetitiveness, this is definitely a bright spot in the melodic metalcore genre. Enjoy this band, and this genre, while you can before it becomes overly flooded with even more wannabe bands!
--Rick Gebhardt
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