UNEARTH The March (2008)

07 November 2008
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Unearth release yet another album. This is the quickest way to sum up what “The March” is all about. If you have listened to “The Oncoming Storm” and “III: In The Eyes Of Fire” and you like them, there’s no reason not to enjoy this one. And in a way you have already listened to it. And besides this rather cold shower of a beginning of this review I think that neighborhood pharmacies will have to supply extra heat rub meds for muscle pain (“Ben gay” mostly. Because of its cool name, of course!). The possibility of extreme pain in your neck due to excessive headbanging is quite high. The dudes from Massachusetts have always demonstrated a higher technical capabilities than most of their metalcore comrades. They show it again. Tracks like opener “My Will Be Done”, “Hail The Shrine” and “The Chosen” provoke the same spontaneous outbursts of joyful air-guitaring like old-school dogs like Megadeth, Slayer and Testament. There’s also a riff or two that kinda remind us of those heroes too but lets not be too anal about it. This comes on top of the usual references to the “Colony”/”Clayman” era of In Flames. But in the same time we have some totally awesome and thoughtful songs. Just like in the previous albums the classical verse-chorus-again-solo-chorus structures are absent and are replaced by more complex figures with enough motives lasting through the whole song to keep it together. And here is the smaaaal difference than the previous albums where the tracks were a comparatively more random sum of riffs. After the experiment with Terry Date Unearth have moved back to producer Adam D (Killswitch Engage’s clown guitarist who has also produced every metalcore band in the region, the members’ side projects and their dogs). And the dude has done his job again – the sound is crystal clear, being even a bit too sterile at times. As a whole Unearth once again offer something most of the bands they’re put in the same pack with can’t pull off. The bad thing is they create the impression that they’ve stopped at one place. That aside, the combination of technical musicianship, developed songwriting skills and crystal clear production creates an album to be reckoned with.
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