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Review Summary: The Red Shore's debut EP is a strange mix of metal and hardcore styles, definitely a treat. R.I.P. Damo. With great Christian imagery, haunting lyrics, tight and quick drumming, and an extremely emotional feel, Salvaging What's Left is probably one of the least same-y and most powerful melodic death/deathcore albums of the past few years. The Red Shore seems to be one of those young bands that's pushing the envelopes of the deathcore genre, and thankfully steering it towards a more true hardcore style as apposed to the standard slam death-melodic-tuffguy garbage that seems to strangling this young genre already.
Right off the bat, you can notice prominent influence from the current American scene, but there's underlying originality and variation that sets it aside as something different than what's globally becoming a plague. The metal melodies are much less HEY WE LISTENED TO AT THE GATES IN 10TH GRADE and much more thought out and emotive, and transition well into beefier portions and breakdowns, as well as portions heavily influenced by early melodic metalcore (think 7 Angels 7 Plagues or Hopesfall). Lot's of awesome transitions to acoustics, and lots of lighter ambient sounding melodies. Damo's vocals were nicely vaired, great raspy highs, sort of like Dallas Taylor, great gutterals, lot's of (good) spoken portions, and even some decent clean sung portions. The drums fit perfectly, more written to fit the music, rather than to show how fast their drummer can play, and it really adds to the emotive atmosphere. The album has a strange, almost bi-polar atmosphere, from something frantic to something beautiful in seconds, yet without haphazard copied and pasted bull shit songwriting.
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Pebster49 (3.5)
A new Death Metal/Metalcore band worth your attention, but has some to improve on before they shock ...
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I'm surprised I was able to get my point across in such short space.
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With great Christian imagery, haunting lyrics, tight and quick drumming, and an extremely emotional feel, Salvaging What's Left is probably one of the least same-y and most powerful melodic death/deathcore albums of the past few years. The Red Shore seems to be one of those young bands that's pushing the envelopes of the deathcore genre, and thankfully steering it towards a more true hardcore style as apposed to the standard slam death-melodic-tuffguy garbage that seems to strangling this young genre already.
Right off the bat, you can notice prominent influence from the current American scene, but there's underlying originality and variation that sets it aside as something different than what's globally becoming a plague. The metal melodies are much less HEY WE LISTENED TO AT THE GATES IN 10TH GRADE and much more thought out and emotive, and transition well into beefier portions and breakdowns, as well as portions heavily influenced by early melodic metalcore (think 7 Angels 7 Plagues or Hopesfall). Lot's of awesome transitions to acoustics, and lots of lighter ambient sounding melodies. Damo's vocals were nicely vaired, great raspy highs, sort of like Dallas Taylor, great gutterals, lot's of (good) spoken portions, and even some decent clean sung portions. The drums fit perfectly, more written to fit the music, rather than to show how fast their drummer can play, and it really adds to the emotive atmosphere. The album has a strange, almost bi-polar atmosphere, from something frantic to something beautiful in seconds, yet without haphazard copied and pasted bullshit songwriting. Oxymoronic statement.
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your'e oxymorianticThis Message Edited On 12.23.07
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It's not a soundoff though, most reviews on here are just overly lengthy.
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write a soundoff about it
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I'll write a soundoff about your mother OH SHIT
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yo you know the singer died recently in a bus accident? sucks. anyway, i thought the band was pretty average, but it really sucks that he died so young.
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That would explain the whole R.I.P. Damo thing...
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... is this a joke?
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nay my good man
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Okay, I was genuinely confused.
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This review highlights the reason why we have the Sound-Off feature. Normally your shorter reviews are pretty good, but this one isn't.
Also, the use of the word 'portions' doesn't work in context with music. Sections, or passages would work better.
I don't really like this band.
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This would be a good length if there was one or two more paragraphs to it.
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Yeah, I'll add more substance once I blaze it up nigga.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
interesting, I like how this band is described. I might check this out.
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it'll be very interesting to see whether the band continue, perhaps with a new lead singer.
review is very short
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
These people need to stop dying! grr...
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Knives and wolves from their myspace page is pretty wicked.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
I can't wait to hear there new stuff, since there ep was quite good.
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I wonder if they'll find a good replacement for Damo, he was a great vocalist.
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