These instrumentals hit my sweet spot for what I enjoy in a metalcore song/album. Unfortunately a lot of the clean vocal sections just didn't do it for me. The lyrics were a little questionable, and I feel like if the cleans were implemented a little more tastefully/less frequently, it would have made the album much stronger. They were often overbearing, and I feel if the band had made use of some less traditional song structures, perhaps using each clean vocal passage only one time each, it would have made the album much stronger. Nevertheless, this is very much an above average metalcore album, and an incredible one if you tune in mainly to the instrumental aspects of it.
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