Bury Your Dead and its successor It's Nothing Personal more or less signified a shift in musical direction for this moshcore band. Around that point, Myke Terry was Bury Your Dead's frontman, who filled in for Mat Bruso until the latter made his return on Mosh N' Roll. While I'm not one of those people who are totally against change (sometimes it's good, whilst other times it's rancid), BYD should've just expanded upon the sounds that enveloped Cover Your Tracks or Beauty and the Breakdown. Myke's vocal performance sounds forced and practically nonchalant, and the nu-metalcore-inspired guitar work definitely becomes exhausting towards the midsection of the band's self-titled album. However, I have to commend the record's final song in the form of "Dust to Dust", for the track includes decent chorus parts and it's an admittedly nice way to conclude such a terrible release. This was a dark era for a rather disposable outfit and hopefully they never fall back on it.
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