This is a band who has never stood the test of time as much as they should've. Why? To start off with, Southern California's Atreyu has always been one of the most clich? metalcore groups out there; every now and then, their releases have maybe four or five tracks which don't need the flak, but they're absolutely nothing to babble on about. Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty - Christ, what a stupid title - is the band's second EP and their worst offering ever. The sound quality and mixing done on these five songs are atrociously bad, and no problems are solved seeing as how uncomfortable the quintet are. Brandon Saller to me possesses tolerable pipes, though on this EP, he has a hard fucking time not being off-key since this is the first release to showcase him play both drums and sing. Alex Varkatza's growls are the equivalent of the Boogeyman unable to fight off his own shadow, so there's not much else I can say. The instrumentation is mostly lifeless and does nothing to make up for Alex and Brandon's cum-guzzling performances, but there *is* a rare (if tiny) spot of light within "A Letter to Someone Like You." By and large, Atreyu have shown marginal improvements here and there eventually, yet Fractures was still the lowest point.
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