Days Of Betrayal acts in the regions of deathcore, the result of mixing metalcore with melodic death metal. Unfortunately they do this in a very annoying way, with tons of typical melodic metalcore riffs. This band can therefore never be compared to frontrunners like Despised Icon and Job For A Cowboy. An equation with Heaven Shall Burn would fit better, but these Germans were much more skilled when Days of Betrayal weren’t even together.

It’s sad that every song has these weak riffs, since not all of Betrayal’s music sucks. Decapitated For Research features tight drum work including long straight blastbeats. For example the intro of ‘Execute Hope’ is very brutal and the varied techy parts during the song show that this band has potential. Also the start of final track ‘The Next Victim’ is promising with raising brutality, it’s just too bad that they always fall back on the annoying melodies.

In the end this album is just too commonplace for those who’ve heard more records in the genre. If you’re into metalcore and looking for something harder, this album would do well, although it can’t be mistaken that there are better records to consume. I'd rather listen to the new Crimson Falls for instance.