The Red Chord have left their mark on the modern metal movement, as the forefront of technical metal. It's the hybrid of metal, and modern hardcore, pushing the limnits with technical guitar work, constant time and tempo changes, etc. The Princes of tech metal, and the tasteful of the entire "grindcore" trend, or "deathcore" trend. When Job For a cowboy was learning how to bree, The Red Chord were writing whitty metal records, with their brothers Between the Buried and Me, and their fathers Dillinger Escape Plan, and Converge looking over their shoulders. The Red Chord will forever be defined as one of the few bands of the genre, that innovated what they were doing.
Little did we know, their third release would be their defining record. Musically they have taken a turn for the tasteful. The composition is incredible, and thoughtful, in ways indescribable by words. Lyrically, the record comes across more serious, however has its whitful moments.
Basically this record is a breathe of fresh air, which im not sure why I didn't expect anything less from such an incredible band. In a music genre that has just been EXTREMELY watered down, The Red Chord smacked us all in the face and said...
"we're not going to change for anybody, we're just going to do it twice as good."
Which pretty much sums up their latest release.
FINAL GRADE: A
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