Artist: Burn The Sunset
Title: Home
Type: Album
Label: Self Released

Ah the dulcet tone of guitar feedback, a triple word band name, short hair and intermittent double kick can only mean my first metalcore release of 2012. Actually it’s not a bad one from these shitbags from Stirling, I mean that in a nice way by the way. The moment this album starts you notice the massive amount of bass that’s in the mix. “Home Pt1” is an intro of said feedback and double kick that leads into “Moving On” and has a fat fucker of a riff to start it, meaty, gristly and bone crunching. As with a lot of these bands the focus is on rhythm with bass bomb injections being used to punctuate the riffing and breakdowns. “Lonely And Defeated” is more core than metal with hugely distorted bass lines that might just be deliberate rather than production ineptitude. There’s good old gang chanting vocal lines as well for that added camaraderie factor, which isn’t a criticism just a plain fact of this style of music.

“The Changing Times” has vocals that sound like a tantrum, with the guy ranting relentlessly as though his life depends on it. “Insincere” matches the previous song with huge breakdowns and a skipping beat that has that two stepping dance style move you may be familiar with if you’ve seen bands like this live. The hook change is good but the gang chant vocals are far too predictable as the song quickly reverts to how it started and then to yet another breakdown. “Moving Up” is a very melodic instrumental that showcases the bands softer side only for “Memories” to shove it aside. The song is catchy initially but does resort too quickly to the safety of metalcore. The ideas work and I did enjoy the drop in pace for the breakdown and simultaneous snare speed increase. The riff at the end is also half decent as quite a lot of them are on this short album. Closing the release is “Home Pt2”a song that builds steadily with a snare roll and hardcore like riff, short and violent, leading neatly to the breakdown.

Most so called real metal fans hate this genre and if they do like it are too afraid to say so unless they are less than 17 years old. As a release this is more than sufficient for said age group to check them out at the regular all dayers that are held around the country, well they do in Leeds anyway.

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Martin Harris

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