The Autumn Offering – Revelations Of The Unsung

Over the last few months, it’s beginning to don on me that I shouldn’t expect much from Victory records. They have the uncanny ability to completely warp the sound of band into one of their limited genres they cater to on their label. So a band usually falls into either the category of their very metal bands, the faux emo bands, the not so metal bands that one might call hardcore or metal-core, and they have ska bands and a few others that haven’t yet fallen into a category. The Autumn Offering falls into the metal category, but they haven’t yet reached the point of Premonitions of War or Sinai Beach yet. They remind me a lot more of A Perfect Murder, so they still sound pretty good, but I don’t want to get attached to them because I know eventually I’ll be disappointed.

Don’t get me wrong though, this is actually a decent album, even if I do have a tendency to pick out flaws in anything possible. The band is actually very solid, due to the fact that they clearly have quite a bit of musical talent. The vocals are a reminiscent of a metal scream, but they’re still intelligible. It’s the guitarists that had me impressed; they sure know how to play. It’s almost all high notes with guitar solos and breakdowns thrown in every song. But, once again, I was not happy with the lack of audible bass. I don’t think I should be obligated to crank up the bass setting on any stereo I use just to hear one instrument. I can clearly hear it in some bands, so why can’t the people recording the music put a little more effort into turning the volume up on the bass? It’s really not that hard, you simply have to turn a small knob and/or dial. That goes for a lot of bands though, maybe this is just some kind of stupid trend, I don’t know, I don’t record music and I don’t play bass. The drumming is pretty good, he sure knows how to play pretty quick with his double kick and there’s plenty of plenty of noise from his crash. Although it sounds like he neglects certain parts of his drum kit at different points, one could say that his playing sounds localized. But anyways, the band definitely knows what they’re doing, or else they’d most likely have become a punk band.

I’d recommend this band/album if you like metal. I think its pretty safe to say that this is a metal band. Not exactly a radio friendly metal band, which is a good thing, but nonetheless, metal. Don’t buy this if you live for hardcore; chances are you probably won’t like it, it’s metal. Don’t buy this if you’re just on this site because you’re a tool who thought that you could see some awesome Good Charlotte reviews. This band is not pop, it’s metal, as I may have stressed earlier. Don’t buy this if you like rap, this isn’t rap, it’s metal. Hopefully, through my cunning of what I think is parallel structure, you’ll have some idea whether or not this is your kind of music, band, genre, etc.