Thursday, May 24, 2018

For the Suffering - For the Suffering (2009)

Cost: 99¢

First impression: Well, the band name certainly sounds like something a death metal band would use.  However, the layout, band members, and songtitles seem more fitting for -core stuff.

The album starts out on a quite Arch Enemy-influenced note, which isn't terribly exciting to begin with, but as it goes on the frequency of breakdowns and chug-a-lug riffs increase, and much of the album ends up being generic bastard-son-of-Slaughter of the Soul metalcore.  Main vocals are typical -core screeches done by a chick.  For better or for worse, they're pretty indistinguishable from male vocalists in the style and have the same monotony.  There are some sparingly used clean female vocals that just pop up under the music in some songs, as the album really doesn't have any true clean passages to place them in.  They provide some vocal variety, but other than that, don't have much impact.
 
Overall, the album is much more on the metallic side of metalcore than I would have initially guessed, but this is still just a mediocre example of a genre I don't enjoy anyway.