Whitechapel

The Acacia Strain – Wormwood Review

The Acacia Strain – Wormwood Review

By Angry Metal Guy on July 27, 2010 in 1.0, 2010, American Metal, Deathcore, Prosthetic Records, Reviews, Deathcore, 34 comments

I seem to remember The Acacia Strain being an In Flames copy, but I think I must be thinking of another band entirely. Which means that I have no reference for these guys as I’ve never heard them before and I thought they were a metalcore band. Turns out, I’m wrong. Instead, they’re a deathcore band. Now, I try to not generalize about genre conventions while reviewing a band (I mean, it’s unfair to review an entire genre every time you review a band’s record), but I think that I’m starting to figure out what it is about endless breakdowns that I hate. And I’ll tell you. Oh yes, I’ll tell you.

Whitechapel – A New Era of Corruption Review

Whitechapel – A New Era of Corruption Review

By Angry Metal Guy on June 7, 2010 in 2010, 3.5, American Metal, Deathcore, Metal Blade, Metalcore, Reviews, Deathcore, 1 comment

At the center of every shitty, irritating trend made up of forgettable, annoying bands is usually a core (no pun intended) of interesting bands that aren’t shitty and that do the music with conviction and may have even been on the front end of the whole trend. The Gothenburg sound had At The Gates and In Flames which have been imitated thousands of times. Metalcore (incidentally which is ripping off At The Gates and In Flames) had Unearth (who had one really great album before they got signed to Metal Blade). As far as I can tell Whitechapel is one such band. I have never listened to them, having been pretty much turned off of any band labeled deathcore because of a slough of shitty fucking bands that have been passed off in my direction (see the “related reviews”, I’m sure you’ll see how I feel about the genre/trend).