I was more or less expecting typical metalcore and hesitantly bought this in case it was Slaughter of the Soul-core, but it was quite surprising how technical and progressive this is. The sole online review I could find for this compares them unfavorably to Between the Buried and Me, and while early BTBAM might be a vaguely fair comparison in regards to prog. elements, Adonis Decay are far more melodeath-influenced, have less generic -core aggro-ness, and place far less emphasis on contrasting extreme/clean sections. The vocals here also help further push the -core into the background--a wide range of extreme and clean vocal styles are used, but none of them are ultra-forced toughguy shouting. The main vocals are more of a raspy black metal style.
The unusual time signatures as well as the more metallic music make this marginally more interesting than your typical breakdown laden shouty stuff (which is, quite honestly, exactly what this CD looks like it will be). But I'd still much rather listen to something else entirely.
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