New Junk Aesthetic

Every Time I Die | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Epitaph
• ASIN: B002HQWQEI
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,631 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A New Style... Kinda., September 16, 2009

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Sheri A. Bodnicki - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Junk Aesthetic (Deluxe Version) (Audio CD)

To begin, I would rate Every Time I Die's album a 4.5/5. It's not perfect, but pretty darn good for sure.

Now, time to critique...

This, without a doubt, is a new sounding album. It's identifiably different from any other work ETID has done in the past, but it still holds true to their sound and style. The Southern Sound is there, and so are the heavy riffs and belching yells; yet it has a different flavor. I've only had the CD for two days now and listened to each song between 4-8 times, but that does not stop me from noticing a few differences in this album when compared to ETID's past work:

1) The guitars have a different sound. I cannot pin-point it, but when paired up against The Big Dirty or The Gutter Phenomenon, they just sound different. Maybe a slightly different tuning? I don't know for certain, but it sure does produce a darker and heavier sound. Also, the dual guitars are not as prevalent. In most of the songs it sounds like only one guitar did the recording. I'm not sure why, for I loved the intricacy of the dual guitars in The Big Dirty and The Gutter Phenomenon. Don't get me wrong, the riffs are intricate and definitely don't disappoint, just different.

2) The drumming is more intense in this album without a doubt. It's faster, more complex, and just plain great.

3) Keith does something different with his lyrical duties on this album. Overall, I don't really like The New Junk Aesthetic's lyrics as much as ETID's other albums. In over half of his songs he repeats the same lines over and over. The repetition may work sometimes, but it gets old when it is occurring in every song. Another thing Keith changed was the range of his screams. He seems to have extended his range or something. The average scream from The New Junk Aesthetic is higher pitched than let's say The Big Dirty. He still prevails with the deep belches, and definitely avoids the Underoath like screech-scream, but again: it's a noticeable difference. The clean vocals in The New Junk Aesthetic are not as 'clean' as they were on The Big Dirty. Even when singing, Keith manages to sneak in a little screaming. The sound is Keith without a doubt; just an extra pinch of hardcore to his sound.

4) The pace of this album is significantly faster than both The Big Dirty and The Gutter Phenomenon. It falls somewhere between The Gutter Phenomenon and Hot Damn!. It's still not as chaotic as Hot Damn!, but darn close. The guitars and drumming move at mosh-inducing rhythm, only to be accented by Keith's ever-identifiable screams. For those who own The Big Dirty, many of the songs run at a pace similar to that of "Imatation Is the Sincerest For of Battery" and "Rebel Without Applause" (The sound is not like these songs, just the speed). It's brutally fast. The new bassist also sounds fantastic on this album, keeping up with the faster face all while taking unrelenting amount of harassment from the veteran members of ETID (as seen on the DVD accompanying the CD on the Deluxe Version).

If you're looking for a further progression towards the mainstream rock like The Big Dirty did, you aren't going to find anything here. This is an album returning to the sound that sparked ETID's success: Hardcore - Southern Style. In the Big Dirty, I'd say it had more Southern Rock than metal/hardcore on many of its songs. That is not the case on this album. Hardcore is the prevailing genre seeping from this album.

Overall, this album is fantastic. See it as a relief to those who feared that ETID would become the next Papa Roach, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold (etc.), selling out to what the radio wants to hear. This is Southern HARDCORE without a doubt. If this is a new band to you, I'd ask you if enjoy metal? If yes, do you like hardcore metal? If yes, then you are at the right place. The members of Every Time I die are the apex of Hardcore. If you are a fan of Every Time I Die, then buy this album. It'll show you who they really are.

-Ryan Bodnicki

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, June 4, 2010

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K. Wezwick - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Junk Aesthetic (MP3 Download)

I don't know what their other albums stand like, I'm not a fan of Every Time I Die in that I've never listened to them before so I can't rate this album in the context of their corpus.

But as an album, on it's own, it's great.

Technical without being obnoxious and groovy at the same time. The lyrics are insightful, the vocals are screamed intelligibly and every track brings something to the table.

Also taken as a whole, the album has a progression from beginning to end. Not a concept album, just a nicely laid out collection of songs with a coherent path.

A solid metal album that stands on its own.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Album, May 13, 2010

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David N. Goliath - See all my reviews

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This review is from: New Junk Aesthetic (Deluxe Version) (Audio CD)

ETID seems to be sticking with the formula that has been working with them. That is a formula that always finds it's way into my workout playlist. The artwork included with this album is aesthetically appealing and done by one of the band members... props to you fine sir. The DVD has a couple laughs in it.