Type – Album Review
Title – This Is The Six
Artist – While She Sleeps
While She Sleeps are set to be the
new stars of the British metal scene, over the past 18 months the band has won
every accolade available for a new band playing heavy music and ‘This Is The
Six’ is exactly the album that they needed to make.
Released on August 6th, 2012, The album opens with “Dead
Behind The Eyes”, While She Sleeps do not waste time in making an impression.
Loud, fast and designed to instigate bar brawls, it’s a monster of a track—and
perhaps one of their best—but this does not mean that This Is The Six is lacking in intensity in the rest of
the tracks. Having first gained attention with 2010’s The North Stands For Nothing mini-album, the quintet—who come from
Bring Me The Horizon’s hometown of Sheffield, U.K.—up the ante across the
board, churning out anthems by the fistful, for the most part avoiding the
one-dimensionality that plagues far too many of those born of the metalcore
gene pool.
Among the best are
the frantic “Seven Hills” (its frantic energy contrasting with a mournful tone
that undercuts the music), the piano-tinged, desperate “Our Courage, Our
Cancer” and “Love At War” which borders on heartbreaking in between passages
dripping with contempt. At the same time, the belligerence of the hardcore-flavored
“Be(lie)ve” and juddering violence of “Until The Death” do an effective job of
wrecking everything before them. The band’s greatest weapon lies in the vocals
of Lawrence “Loz” Taylor, whose approach seems born of a desire to be coughing
up blood the rest of his life (in a good way, of course). Every scream sounds torn from his body, his intensity never
wavering as he delivers a commanding performance rife with emotion.
Its moments of respire mean that This Is The Six
isn’t simply an exercise in unrelenting aggression. A considerable amount of
thought has been put into making sure that this album has as big an impact as
possible.
There’s not one bad
song on this album. This Is The Six is comfortable in is own skin full of heavy
guitar riffs. Unlike so many before them, While She Sleeps just might be able
to live up to all the hype that has been heaped upon them.
We really enjoyed
this album and we want to know your thoughts on it, leave us a comment below
telling us what you thought.
- Gillian_x3
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