A Love Ends Suicide – In The Disaster

Discovered by As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis, A Love Ends Suicide return with their newest release, “In The Disaster“. Anyone familiar with Metal Blade Records will already have a pretty good idea of exactly how this album sounds and shouldn’t expect any surprises. Brothers John and Oscar M. Cairoli, Emir and Andres Abdo and guitarist Matt Garcia know the metal formula and don’t stray far from it at all on their sophomore release. For hardcore fans of the whole metalcore scene this might be a good thing that they haven’t tried to do something a little different while retaining the same feel, but for someone like myself who’s sick of the whole genre A Love Ends Suicide might bore you.

There’s nothing really wrong with “In The Disaster“, but I honestly can’t find one thing to say about their sound and music that I can’t say for the other 100’s of earlier releases by every other band in this same category of music. It’s that familiar blend of furious riffs, fast double bass drumming, rip your face off growling, speedy bass, and of course we can’t forget the second vocalist who is a lot softer and often sings more then screams. A Love Ends Suicide play this formula with song structures as decent as all your favorite metal bands, so much that you could easily throw a track off “In The Disaster” onto some of the top artists in this genre and you wouldn’t really notice it was a different band. Oscar and Matt’s guitar work lifts the music a bit with a few embelishments and solo’s but even throughout the album there isn’t alot of change from track to track. There are a couple songs that standout a bit more, the thrashy, heavy, sing-a-long “Dying To Be Beautiful” and “Skate Junction” with its lightning quick guitar and my favourite breakdown on the whole album.

Unfortunately this is a very typical album without any surprises or twists and whether its good or not really depends on the listener. If you love your metalcore and can’t get enough of what your hearing now, then there should be no reason why you won’t enjoy A Love Ends Suicide. However if your looking for something a little fresh in your music you will find no satisfaction here and will only find a new band name on songs you’ve heard before. I fall into the latter and find myself constantly bored of the lack of change and evolution in not only “In The Disaster” but the whole genre itself taking away the replay-ability in this release.