Tearing Down Your Blue Skies

Diecast | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B000305ZWK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,031 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fire Damage

2. Seize The Day

3. Torn From Within

4. Savior

5. Rise And Oppose

6. Sacrifice

7. Medieval

8. Traitor

9. These Days

10. Pendulum

11. Rebirth

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tearing....your ear drums apart!, June 23, 2005

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Kabulnation "Forrest" (Windham, ME USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tearing Down Your Blue Skies (Audio CD)

These guys are out of Boston with their third album here "Tearing Down Your Blue Skies". New singer Paul Stoddard is unveiled in this album. His vocals have great versatility as he will be heard here with grunts, shouts, shrieks, and melodic singing that change almost effortlessly it seems. The instrumental teammates wont dissappoint either, but you can tell the aim of these guys is to put together great song writing ability and performance, in other words they dont wnat to go into a thousand directions musically at once. Early highlights are "Fire/Damage", "Torn from Within", and "Savior" which succeed for their tight-fisted, start-stop rhythmic barrage and their smart, melodic hooks. However they also enjoy a full unaviodable "heavy metal" on par with post-hardcore, post-nu metal, metal bands such as "God Forbid", "Shadows Fall", or "Killswitch Engage". This is not a single downside to this entire album the keep the same excellent formula going throughout, which leaves one to believe Diecast may be just a few degrees away from achieving theboilingpoint in a few years.

1.Fire Damage - 8/10
2.Seize the day - 7/10
3.Torn From Within - 8.5/10
4.Savior - 9/10
5.Rise and Oppose - 7.5/10
6.Sacrifice - 8/10
7.Medieval - 9.5/10
8.Traitor - 6/10
9.These Days - 6.5/10
10.Pendulum - 9/10
11.Rebirth - 5/10

Total - 84/110 or 7.6/10

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW, October 25, 2004

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ARCANE420 "www.arcanenj.com" (ARCANEWORLD, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tearing Down Your Blue Skies (Audio CD)

First of all I would like to say that if you have read the previous review, disregard it. That person obviously doesnt know what music is and probably thinks blink 182 is the best metal band of all time. Now onto the reveiw: Day of Reckoning was in my opinion one of the most underrated albums when it was released. It was punishing with unrelentless double bass and fast picking. The newest release from boston's Diecast is sure to leave listeners wondering how a band could come up with these riffs all on their own. Yes, there is more singing but it is NOT the EMO singing that most bands today are accustomed of doing. The vocals are very well done, while I had my doubts that it wouldnt be as good as the old cd. The guitars have greatly improved, using many different types of chords and time changes. But the shining moment of the cd is definitly Costa on the drums. I have said back when I first heard the first cd that he was definitly on of the best drummers in metal and if you need any convincing that he hasnt lost his touch just listen to the last track rebirth. Overall I feel like this is a very solid effort from an extremely underrated band and it's sure to skyrocket them into the upper tiers of the new wave of metal alongside Shadow's Fall, Unearth, and God Forbid.
Fave songs:
Fire/Damage
Pendulum
Savior
Sacrafice
Rebirth

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly a masterpiece, but..., June 19, 2005

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Cleaver - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tearing Down Your Blue Skies (Audio CD)

ok, first of all, this is in no way revolutionary, or origional, or a masterpiece. It is simply a good metal album, nothing more. Personally i liked the album, being a fan of the thrash scene, it's nice to see diecast bring a bit of the old 80's thrash and update it, it makes an awesome song. You won't like this if you dont like metal, but i'm assuming if you're here you like metal. I'm not an expert, i'm 15, i listen to a ton of music new and old, from Tool, to The Rolling Stones, to Weezer, to Slayer. So i'm all over the place musically, and this cd just happens to be one of my favourites at the moment, and is getting pretty heavy rotation in my cd. Like other reviewers said, this is not LoG, or Shadows Fall. Both of those bands are awesome, but dont expect anything like either of them on here. Rise and Oppose and Fire Damage were the best tracks in my opinion, but it's all pretty good.