So, another metalcore band this time. A death-metalcore band to be exact. And that’s definitely a thing Stillrise shows on this album. They’re playing well-structured metalcore with a chaotic death metal sound mixed through it. Nice riffs are combined with a lot of energy and some nice screams of the vocalist. All in all the music doesn’t seem to add something new to the general metalcore sound we all know nowadays.

 

No, it’s not really the music that scares me off on this album. It’s the vocals that don’t seem to fit in all the time. Sometimes they’re just too chaotic to me. For some reason it gives me a feeling that the bandmembers lost a bit of the structure in some songs. (It’s really hard to explain this feeling actually but I hope you understand what I’m trying to say here.) On the other though, the clean vocal parts on this album aren’t that great either. Although I kinda have the feeling that’s more of a production aspect instead of the actual voice.

 

Thumbs up for the cover artwork though, it really gives me the feeling one should have with this album so that definitely deserves a compliment!

 

My conclusion of this album: Stillrise is a bit of a weak clone of The Agony Scene and Caliban combined with the (too) typical metalcore sound we all know. Not bad, but definitely not very good either!