And Hell Followed With
Proprioception


2.5
average

Review

by WhiteWallStargazers USER (53 Reviews)
April 19th, 2010 | 68 replies


Release Date: 2010 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Inconsistent Death metal from Michigan

Metal is a hard genre to pinpoint. Various bands play various styles, each with mixed results, but no band has created such a dilemma between poor and great metal as Hell Followed With on their second album, Proprioception.

This band showcases its talent by being really heavy, but also infusing melodic guitar lines into some songs. The guitarists are pretty talented, relying on chugging riffs until they decide to spur into a melodic lead riff, which is a nice contrast to the heavy side of things. The vocalist is pretty versatile, utilizing everything from hardcore yells to deep gutturals. He brings a nice amount of variety to the album, and keeps it from getting too stale or repetitive. The drums are your standard speed fare, with a lot of triplet and quad double bass, and not much else. The bass is nowhere to be found, but gives the low end more punch.

In sharp contrast to the talent displayed, this album is confusing because for every generic boring chugging section, this band will break into a melodic guitar lead that sounds really good, but yet they never manage to transition the good sections into anything solid. They seem to always slip back into the mediocre sound that hurts so many bands of this genre. Even when they do delve into something interesting like the melodic lead at 2:37 of This Night is the Coroners, or the clean section from 2:35 till the end of Those Now Sleep Forever, they can never hold these quality sections over to anything substantial.

Although And Hell Followed With shows promise on Prorioception, there is not enough quality on this album to really recommend it. They have snippets of really good metal, but they need to figure out how to stretch this snippets into entire quality songs.



Source: Promo received directly from Earache Records



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WhiteWallStargazers
April 19th 2010


2647 Comments


Really short review I know, but there's not much to say that can't be assumed

Blindsided
April 19th 2010


1871 Comments


Good review, won't be checking this out but I bet that doesn't surprise you
Just state here as well that you got the promo directly from Earache because no one without the password and stuff can access this.

Bleekill
April 19th 2010


832 Comments


From what I read these guys are Deathcore, not metal. Sounds like generic deathcore.

Nikkolae
April 19th 2010


6605 Comments


sounds kinda bleh, but somehow i wanna listen to it, whats its sound like?

cvlts
April 19th 2010


9938 Comments


such a shitty band name.

WhiteWallStargazers
April 19th 2010


2647 Comments


My original paragraph said deathcore, but knowing how picking these sputnik people are about it I switched it to metal just to generalize it

Nikkolae: It is basically generic deathcore that occasionally gets inturrupted with some melodic guitar

Ulsufyring
April 20th 2010


1748 Comments


i'm so tired of reviews starting with 'metal dablabbityblur bla bla Rob Schneider da derpity derpy derpy derp"

idbz
April 20th 2010


90 Comments


local band from around where i live. never seen them live, always heard mixed reviews

asaf
April 26th 2010


965 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

i just found out about these guys last night checking out the for the fallen dreams flyer. i thought it was a good listen, but then again i enjoy a majority of what plenty seem to despise.



i mean, chelsea grin is a total bore. oceano isn't any fun. this is at least slightly animated. i wonder if i can find it on a torrent....

iwrestledyourmomonce
July 5th 2010


75 Comments


I'm tired of Michigan having so much shitty music.

Unskathed123
July 7th 2010


368 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Played with these guys at Dirtfest. When I tell my friends what they're like, I say "Imagine if The Black Dahlia Murder couldn't write a song without a breakdown."



The only bands I like out of my scene are I Am Abomination, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Chiodos.

iLikeSchlager
October 25th 2010


123 Comments


underated... still not some new groundbreaking stuff, but i enjoy listen to them.
sounds like as blood runs black and tbdm had a baby. well ill adopt this one without thinkin :D
And i can say by now, this album is a grower. For an debut this one is classic, i think we gonna hear awesome stuff from them in a few years.

MarkTheDead
November 3rd 2010


716 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Bringing punishing breakdowns, sadistically catchy lyrics, & a very dark aesthetic sound which I find to be outstanding!

xstaytrue18x
December 21st 2010


583 Comments


this is different from most deathcore ive listened to, it isn't your cookie cutter like stuff but it is still boring as fuck.

UnderDaIce
December 27th 2010


203 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

If these guys cut the breakdowns they would have something awesome to work with. The vocalist is fucking dope

HeeeyOctopus
February 8th 2011


6 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I absolutly love the vocalist of this band, and altogether beleive that if it wasn't for the already big deathcore names (Suicide Silence, Whitechapel ect) this band could of been huge, but with so many of them about these days it's hard to get noticed and therefore have been cast asunder and become unoticed.

HylianNightmare
March 16th 2011


72 Comments


i agree lots of talent but they can't seem to put it all together

xTheRoseRedx
April 16th 2011


38 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Don't give a shit if this band or album is generic Deathcore. Something i totally love about it, blows most of bands out of the water. Vocals? Drums, fuck i don't know. But it's a seriously good album for me!

Pharoh
July 7th 2011


3325 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

highs sound similar to TAIM's ep and TBDM

Abrogated
July 21st 2011


5 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Generic but enjoyable.



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