A lot of Killing The Dream's fans say that this is the band's finest hour, or finest thirty minutes rather, but I'd have to say that honor goes to the prior album of the band's discography, In Place, Apart. Fractures is still quality melodic hardcore, though, pissed and slightly melodic in its length. However, the band underwent some line-up changes between In Place, Apart and this, though, and the difference between how Fractures flows and Killing The Dream's past work is pretty strong: songs don't move that naturally from track to track - a lot of stop-starting - and the more interesting, varied sections of Fractures are too underplayed and forgotten. Replacement guitarists DJ Rogers and Patrick Guild are certainly competent for the job, but Killing The Dream's music just isn't the same, or as good, as it once was.
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