Whitechapel - This is Exile
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The Black Dahlia MurderAs Blood Runs Black
Suicide Silence
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Metal BladeTracklist
1. Father Of Lies2. This Is Exile
3. Possession
4. To All That Are Dead
5. Exalt
6. Somatically Incorrect
7. Death Becomes Him
8. Daemon (The Procreated)
9. Eternal Refuge
10. Of Legions
11. Messiahbolical
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Good metal should be the type of music that makes you feel like a tiny molecule of air witnessing a volcano exploding. Albums like Undoing Ruin by Darkest Hour do this easily. You do not have to break barriers to write good metal, but for God's sake, just try something a little different every now and again. I had heard This Is Exile 300 times before I had even heard of Whitechapel. The same death growls, goblin yelps, pummeling drums and machine gun riffs that you will hear in every third MySpace metal band's profile are all here.
Unhallowed by The Black Dahlia Murder and albums of that ilk are a lot of fun, but extremely clichéd, deathcore. If you have heard As Blood Runs Black, With Blood Comes Cleansing, or any of their contemporaries, you will be familiar with Whitechapel's niche of the metal genre. The problem with This Is Exile is that it is no fun whatsoever. Whitechapel frequently execute humongous blast beats and roar or yelp vocal tirades, but trying to make a record sound as in your face and hard as possible does not always made for that great of a listen.
Most of the tracks on This Is Exile leap into a frenzied rage and leave little time to breath, but this gets very tedious, very quickly. This is the type of album which sounds so unvaried that you barely recognize that it is still playing after one or two songs. It is really that dull of a listen. The same format of break-neck intro, some pointless breakdowns, and finger defying fretwork over typical drum machine-esque drumming makes for a very rigid, generic, formulaic album.
Decent metalcore should be about raw emotion and passion. Sadly This Is Exile seems to be all about following the boring deathcore crowd like a group of timid sheep. Whitechapel throw around 200mph riffs and blast beats right, left and center, but sadly you will have probably fallen asleep after the first half of the album.
--Ally Hendrie
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this album is fantastic.
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But I do prefer The Somatic Defilement 20x more than This Is Exile.
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JMU
No chance, dude.
Infinitely Inwards
Ever Forthright - Ever Forthright
Fallujah - The Harvest Wombs
The New Law - The Fifty Year Storm
The Mars Volta - Noqtourniqet
Aborted - Global Flatline
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind)The Crafty Ape
Florida, USA
Also, Darkest Hour are terrible.
Infinitely Inwards
Darkest Hour's latest release is their worst, but that's a relative statement because all their releases are "good" to me.
I hate that you don't like this Matt; I thought that you might like how diabolical they sound.
Ever Forthright - Ever Forthright
Fallujah - The Harvest Wombs
The New Law - The Fifty Year Storm
The Mars Volta - Noqtourniqet
Aborted - Global Flatline
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind)The Crafty Ape
Florida, USA
Infinitely Inwards
Ever Forthright - Ever Forthright
Fallujah - The Harvest Wombs
The New Law - The Fifty Year Storm
The Mars Volta - Noqtourniqet
Aborted - Global Flatline
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind)The Crafty Ape
Reading/Portsmouth, Eng
Darkest Hour stands so tall above most metal these days.
PA
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