xexyzl wrote:
I deleted my previous post, a little too confrontational I think.
Points:
1) What I've heard from BFMV is by no means good.
2) The Last Fight, was, I felt, bad but not as godawful as the reviewer's portrayal of the album.
3) I am new to metalcore in the sense that I've largely avoided it save for a few albums that people have recommended and one or two individual songs. The Last Fight sounds most like Trivium to me, what with the thrashier aspect (to be fair about 3/4 of the riffs were wimpy, and the rest were just bland). The only metalcore I remember genuinely enjoying was some of All Shall Perish's stuff. Even supposedly better bands like Killswitch and Mendeed don't appeal to me.
4) Not to go into too much detail, but I personally don't think much of In Flame's material, new or old. However, I will state that even their overrated early output is far far better than this. A Sense of Purpose is about level in terms of Do Not Want with this song.
5) My original intent in posting here was to see what the main reasons were that everyone else hated them. It seems those reasons are mostly catch-alls for mainstream metalcore. Valid, but a bit silly to me that people exaggerate so much when it comes to describing this kind of music. Perhaps it's because you all have heard much more metalcore than I so you're sick of even what outsiders would call decent stuff at this point (I can totally understand that; I feel the same way about Gothenburg Melodeath after having heard so much of it, hence the jab at In Flames)
Metalcore isn't all white belts, tight pants, and breakdowns, and it doesn't have to be a friendly pushover genre derided by metalheads. Listen to Misericordiam and then come back and tell me the music has no power.. T
And I like the melodies too...