Presented to you on this disc is metalcore from Texas. Sometimes the music on The Journey reminds me of Embodyment's first album (Embrace The Eternal) though there are hardly fast parts here. Mainly slow and midtempo passages. The music consists of one riff followed by another without much points of recognition throughout the songs. At first it sounds like one big mess. Maybe this band is best described as a cross between old Embodyment and Zao. The vocalist sounds much like the singer on the first Embodyment album, Kris McCaddon. He's in Society's Finest nowadays too but he's not handling the vocals. Singer is Josh Ashworth while Kris is one of the guitarists. The quality of the disc is just splendid but the problem I have with many bands in this genre is that they don't write songs that really stick into my mind. The same I feel about this band. Great band, fantastic ideas, but it appears as just a bunch of freaked out sounds to me. The only song that comes close is Knife Fight.
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Bandoppler 2000Reviewed by John SantEvery now and then, a CD comes out that totally blows your expectations out of the water, and redefines that band, establishes them as an authority in their particular genre. Say hello to Society's Finest from Arlington, Texas. This album first and foremost kicks your butt, and then does it again. Not since Liberate... has an album coalesced so perfectly, or rocked so heavily. Ten tracks of…Similar sounding releases
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