After 4 years since their last studio album. The Deathcore legends who have spent the better part of almost 20 years building their infamous legacy, this time around they aren’t fucking around! They’re back with a vengeance!
This latest project has 10 tracks running at 43 minutes in length! Right from the very opening track ‘Prisoner666’, we get this unforgettable and purely savage 5-minute performance by the band that sets the atmosphere for what it’s to come!
Those haunting opening guitar notes in those first 40 seconds until it escalates into this riveting anthem with brutal drum patterns, heavy guitar, and Phil giving some of his best vocals I’ve heard in years!
From there, the album only gets heavier and better with the next track ‘Hymns In Dissonance’, which features one of the most sickening death growls I can remember hearing from the band or any other! Combined with the fast-paced fury of instrumentation, this track throws all ‘concept’ out the window and just goes for the kill in this thrashing thriller of a song!
Across these 10 songs, there are moments where the band tries for a more ‘theatrical’ approach with certain sounds, melodies, and chords. Such an example is the third track ‘Diabolic Slumber’, with its cinematic opening sequence that then ties into a more methodical stride before it evolves into the animalistic deathcore entry we all know and love from the band in the past!
Although this band is known for their distinctly ‘heavy’ sounds, I feel this album pushes that boundary even further, showing how far you can take things. Also, considering since their last album, they’ve brought on ‘Brandon Zackey’ on the drums, who at his earliest was touring with the band in 2022, and ‘Kin’ came out in 2021.
So maybe he’s the perfect piece of the puzzle to this album’s ‘Magic’, so to speak, but regardless,
If you’re a seasoned Whitechapel fan, this will be the long-awaited album you’ve been waiting for! If you’re a new fan and just a metalhead in general, I feel this will please and surprise any type of fan of the genre!
I’d definitely recommend giving this one a try! Absolutely unreal!
https://open.spotify.com/album/7lnkxd7w0YcE18CZ6COEJj?si=5UMh8QY3TRO_Oe34RCs8_w
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