Bury Your Dead

Bury Your Dead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 18, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Victory Records
• ASIN: B00133FOJA
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,635 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Bury Your Dead have seen and done it all. They have become lifers in this decade's underground Metal and Hardcore scene and have lived to tell the tales about it. Through the thick and thin of it all, the band has stood tall and proud against every obstacle that a band could face and they've walked away stronger each time. Now armed with a new singer and a ferocious no-holds-barred attitude, they walk into 2008 with the defining album of their career. The self-titled album, Bury Your Dead, is the amalgamation of this band's music, life and legacy as one today's most intense bands. Bury Your Dead is a myriad of work that reflects on the band's working class history and Do-It-Yourself attitude and sends a clear message that whatever doesn't kill you will only make you stronger. From start to finish, Bury Your Dead is the band's strongest and most complete record ever. 2008.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No retrends here, March 28, 2008

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Michael (FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bury Your Dead (Audio CD)

As is the case in many rough scenarios, finding a replacement for your best singer in a band can be tasking. You would think it'd be difficult for a band like Bury Your Dead after Mat Bruso left. Not only does current frontman Myke Terry do the job well, but he adds his own style, even incorporating clean singing into the mix rather than keeping it hardcore through and through. Not saying that Mat wasn't good, Beauty And The Breakdown for me was the best the band had to offer. They once again worked with producer Jason Suecof (Trivium, Chimaira, DevilDriver, God Forbid) to create something that not only embodied the Bury Your Dead sound, but also had surprising elements. Like I said, you get to hear some clean singing here and there, plus Mark Tremonti from Alter Bridge lends a guitar solo to the track Year One, which is a first for the band (having guitar solos, I mean). The album is also the first since You Had Me At Hello to not follow any themes (Cover Your Tracks featured songs named after Tom Cruise films, and Beauty And The Breakdown featured songs named from fairy tales). This isn't Beauty And The Breakdown pt.II...but do I think it's better? I like to think they're on par as equally good albums, it's hard to choose the better of the two. You would just have to check for yourself.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bury Your Dead, June 8, 2009

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Elizabeth Wonderham (Washington) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bury Your Dead (Audio CD)

What I have to say it took me a year to like this cd. The reason for this, I wasn't happy at all that Mat Bruso left. Now a year later I have come to accept Myke Terry as vocalist, however this cd doesn't top beauty and the breakdown, my favorite cd of the last five years. The reason I give this cd 4/5 stars is because I think that if Myke Terry got his way on this cd, there would be singing on this one, just like there is on it's nothing personal. This cd is good enough for me, but not the best. I don't regret the $15 I paid for this cd the day it came out.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worthy Attempt, June 21, 2008

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Yoz (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bury Your Dead (Audio CD)

I've always had a soft spot for BYD, so when Beauty and the Breakdown came out, it was bitter sweet-in the sense that they went a new direction so they were willing to break out of the "hardcore" mold, yet kept some of their arsenal like matty b's voice style and lyrical content. Still, this album pretty much was a stamp on the envelope of where their new materiel was going.

As soon as I heard that Bruso departed from BYD, I was bummed-what was to happen to BYD? Then I heard they found a more permanent replacement and they were releasing another album. At this point, it was safe to say that they were going into that "numetal/metalcore" genre. That mixed with the sans-bruso factor, made me a little hesitant to hear the new album.

In the name of trying new things out, and since it was still BYD, I decided to hear em out. I was really scared that they'd stretch the gulf that separates "hardcore" and "numetal" even further to where you wouldn't recognize it was BYD anymore. Luckily, Mark's drumming lets you know it's BYD. Honestly, there weren't many musical differences (other than the obvious Bruso situation) than from Beauty and the Breakdown.

The tracks that stand out to me were the 1st, 5th and 11th track. Come to think of it, the first track REALLY reminded me of Fear Factory, that, coupled with the clean vocals every now and then on the album make that even more apparent, other than the clean vocals though-the guy really sounds like Mat! Track 3's beginning riffs reminded me of a hair metal song that I JUST can't remember-I wanna say a Judas Priest song.

All in all, a good effort, really reminiscent of Beauty and the Breakdown, however some parts of the album were kind of a turn off-for example Track 6. That solo along with the vocals on the track (clean to static) kinda reminded me of Avenged Sevenfold. Yeah, I know change is good, but whats good for some ain't always good for others. And Track 2-which kept reminding me of something that Powerman 5000 (like I said, numetal) would play.

I like BYD for that "in your face" style they brought with "Cover Your Tracks" and "You Had Me at Hello" and even carried over to "Beauty and the Breakdown". The BYD S/T album isn't bad-but it's not their best, either. I still say it's worth a listen, though. I encourage you to try the samples on amazon or even the full tracks on their myspace page, who knows-it might be for you. I applaud them for looking into other directions, I just wish they'd stray from certain "mainstream" elements that older BYD would've kicked in the face!