Review Summary: Capturing Genericness At It's Finest
Capture The Crown, in it's entirety is one of those bands that the scene kids will love, and people who analyze music will probably despise. Releasing one single, the band showed to be nothing special except for being able to rock some V necks and play hardcore music under tiny droplets of sewer water and somehow it worked for them.
The album starts off with The Arrival, which is a bunch of sirens and following these, is a below average breakdown with some techno backing it. The song kicks off the first real song #OIMATEWTF which shows off the overall concept of this album, lyrics about some sort of break up or just hating somebody terribly. The instruments aren't to great, but they aren't to bad, being able to keep the pace of the song somewhat going, although not very well. Jeffrey Welfare mainly sings in this song, and over-produced for sure he does have a slightly enjoyable voice, being able to hit some pretty high notes and at times, sound like he just might have some talent. The screams however ruin this band, the lows are slightly enjoyable and the dying cat screams just sound like fingernails on a chalkboard, and painfully worse at that. Fork Tongued follows the concept of the previous song, although the drums seem to slightly better then the rest of the album. Ladies and Gentlemen, is pretty much the only song on this album that is bearable at best. The instruments aren't to awful, the lyrics aren't whiny and anger filled, and Welfare's screams actually work for once, showing this band has some promise within their generic nature.
Lax starts off strong, but after the first 10 seconds it bleeds into the rest of the album, and is easily the most laughable song on the record. The Knife song follows, and while being generic, and god awful in nearly aspect, I find the chorus quite catchy and actually somewhat remarkable. The breakdown for the song kills it instantly with the lyrics You filthy F***ing C***, showing a very immature writing style this band seems to be reaching for. Dubstep Crap(Storm In a Teacup) isn't worth really getting into, and Help Me To Help You is the same as the first few songs of the record, although slightly more technical. Deja Vu and Insomniac pick the album back up for awhile, bleeding into each other personally but having very catchy and powerful choruses, showing where the band actually has a strong point. RVG is the band taking shots at everyone who doubted them, pulling a Radke and thinking they are better then everyone else just because they have a career and they don't, The chorus in this song is the best moment in the album, and the singing at the end finishes strong, and with that concludes the album, as title track Til Death is nothing remarkable at all.
As a whole, Capture The Crown is a band that picks all the weak and terrible aspects of metal-core and packs them into one 13 song package, and of course has an acoustic song at the end. If the vocalist dropped the screams and stuck to growling and focused more on the singing aspect, this band might be able to find something to build a better foundation for a sophomore effort upon.
Pros:
-Welfare's cleans
-Choruses all seem to be quite catchy
-The Breakdowns at times are actually pretty good
Cons:
-Techno
-Very poor musicianship
-The high screams
