Volumes‘ newest record came out yesterday (twelfth December), and it has been met with some fairly blended evaluations. Publications like Kerrang! and Blabbermouth, blogs corresponding to Steel Insider and Useless Rhetoric, and good ol’ trusty r/metalcore on Reddit, weighed in on the brand new file, delivering a mixture of ideas that appear overwhelmingly constructive at first, till you dig slightly deeper.
The now 15-year-old band is not any stranger to creating a very good file – take 2011’s Through or 2014’s No Sleep for instance – and bands do must evolve over that size of time. Identified particularly for his or her djent-adjacent sound and dedication to polyrhythms, Volumes has leaned into their melodic facet on this latest file, and that does not all the time go over nicely.
On one hand, Blabbermouth glowed about the record, stating that the file “is for anybody who likes heavy, technical and emotionally charged music” and Volumes is “heavy however emotive, technical however stuffed with feeling and aggressive however groove laden” earlier than giving the file an 8 out of 10 rating. The blogs and what appears to be a majority of r/metalcore comply with the same sample of pondering.
On the opposite, a couple of followers on r/metalcore had been fast to level out that the softer songs (“Adrenaline,” the album’s focus monitor and the newest music video, was picked on probably the most) had been forgettable and claiming that Volumes was attempting to chase the Dayseeker craze, one other saying it was generic and secure, a couple of latching onto the time period “pop djent.” I might take these opinions with a grain of salt if it weren’t for the truth that Kerrang! gave the record a whopping 2 out of 5 stars, stating the monitor “California” is “corny sufficient to make your tooth squeak” and “Sew” is “a monitor that does not a lot miss the mark as overlook the place the goal even is.” Nonetheless, author James Hingle did say the file has a “killer opening [and] a powerful closing argument,” however closes the assertion out with “far an excessive amount of forgettable filler stuffed in between.”
Volumes’ line-up for Mirror Contact included Myke Terry and Michael Barr sharing vocal obligations, Raad Soudani on bass, and Nick Ursich on drums. The ten-track LP being launched through the band’s longtime label, Fearless Information.
The bodily copy of the file will land late this coming February. Pre-orders are open now. You’ll be able to try the complete tracklist for Mirror Contact beneath, in addition to the model new music video for “Adrenaline,” launched alongside the album’s debut.
Tracklist:
- “Sidewinder”
- “Backside Greenback”
- “Unhealthy Behavior”
- “California”
- “Adrenaline”
- “Sew”
- “S.O.A.P.”
- “Dream”
- “Value It”
- “Undergo On” (feat. Black Sheep Wall)
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