I think we can all agree that when it comes to metalcore, few bands will ever be as important as Converge. There are countless imitators\u2014more and more each day, it seems\u2014but most will never be a patch on the greatness achieved by Converge. That said, Buffalo’s Every Time I Die are one of the few who take a lead from the legends and are getting pretty close to that seemingly unattainable level of significance.<\/p>\n
Formed in the late ’90s, Every Time I Die\u2019s unique blend of intense hardcore punk with mathcore intricacies and southern metal moments has built them a huge following among both the punk and metal crowd. They’ve become a band that their peers try to model themselves after, and for good reason; ETID’s use of harsh, explosive music mixed in with raw, unrelenting brutality represents the best of the genre.<\/p>\n
On their sixth album, Ex Lives, <\/i>ETID give their fans what they want\u2014furious, unrelenting metal-influenced hardcore. Tracks like \u201cUnderwater Bimbos From Outer Space\u201d and \u201cI Suck (Blood)\u201d are among their finest songs to date, mixing harsh and clean vocals versus thundering riffs and short bursts of melody.<\/p>\n
But don’t think that ETID are just rewriting their prior albums; there are surprises. \u201cPartying Is Such Sweet Sorrow\u201d shows a more country side of the band with banjos opening the track, and \u201cIndian Giver\u201d channels their inner stoner rock sensibilities (I believe I heard a flute in there somewhere). \u201cRevival Mode\u201d is a more ’90s melodic rock angle to the band and would give Queens Of The Stone Age a run for their money, and \u201cA Wild, Shameless Plain\u201d comes off as a bar rock song on steroids. <\/p>\n
Easily their most diverse album to date, Ex Lives<\/i> has both ETID’s most accessible songs and heaviest yet. It’s powerful, emotional and often times not for the timid. While most of the throat-shredding, beyond frantic loudness sounds like it could reach through the speaker and tear your head off, these guys have a lot more to offer than the standard metalcore clones when you dig deeper. A career highlight after 15 years, Ex Lives <\/i>should a part of any punk\/metal\/hardcore fan\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":31509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9162],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-43210","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-every-time-i-die","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43210"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}