It Dies Today - Caitiff Choir

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Release Date:: 09/21/2004
Label:: Roadrunner Japan
UPC:: 4527583005759

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It Dies Today!!!
, February 14, 2005
Reviewer: dinorage_thrashingdeathmetal - See all dinorage_thrashingdeathmetal's reviews

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WOW! Another great band in the age of the NWOHCHM (New Wave of Hardcore Heavy Metal...at least that's how I refer to it), this album is a masterpiece, filled with the emotional melodies of From Autumn To Ashes & Still Remains, combined with the heaviness of In Flames & Nevermore! A winner in my book!!!
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As told by abrasive opener "My Promise," it would appear that, unlike other wussy bands like Unearth and Killswitch Engage, It Dies Today doesn't waste precious time with silly frills like melody and traditional song structures. But then Mr. Prospective Single comes aknocking in the shape of the cleverly titled but predictably sweetened "Severed Ties Yield Severed Heads" to prove such claims of inaccessibility were a tad premature after all. Sure enough, ensuing offerings such as "The Radiance," "A Threnody for Modern Romance," and the twopart title song prescribe much the same medicine as most contemporary American metal bands: a volatile cocktail of soulsearching lyrics, harmonically dense guitar riffs, and musical vocals, interchanged with equal measures of crushed larynx grunting, fullmosh outbursts, and, occasionally, a surprise passage. In terms of the latter, the first breaks down for a momentary slice of atmospheric nearsilence, the second contains a spate of punklike shoutouts, and the last pair spew out a mindbogglingly verbose show of wordplay along with interesting use of backing synthesizer strains. As is often the case with metalcore acts, distinctively metallic influences such as flashy guitar playing and actual solos are the exception, not the rule, and often to be found buried deeper in the mix as if the members of It Dies Today are a little selfconscious of their respectability factor. Of course, the group is simultaneously reckless about its far more frequent lyrical transgressions, as if pretentious moralizing is defensible where pyrotechnic guitars are not. No matter, as the final balance here is of a solid if unspectacular album where the pieces impressively diverse though they might be never quite gel into truly unforgettable tunes. If nothing else, the band's ability and promise are without question, boding well for things to come.

- Ed Rivadavia, All Music Guide

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Formed in 2001, when most of its members were enjoying the tender age of 16, Buffalo, New York's It Dies Today have one foot in the realm of bruising death metal, and another in the attitude and values of hardcore, combining the two into an explosive...Full It Dies Today Biography