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REVIEWS IN BRIEF: BLOOD RED THRONE’S COME DEATH AND BRING ME THE HORIZON’S COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

 Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 11:15am by

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For better or worse, I had the same reaction to two recent death-metal releases from Earache: “Meh.” Maybe I’m just burnt out right now, but neither of these albums exactly knocked my socks off.

First we have Count Your Blessings from Bring Me the Horizon. If you’re into deathcore along the lines of All Shall Perish, Despised Icon and their ilk, I guess you could do worse than Bring Me the Horizon – but you could probably do much better, too. Vince and I saw a band called Born of Osiris play with At All Cost a month or so back, and other than the fact that every member looks like he’s about twelve years old, I think they show a lot of potential – there’s a lot of killer breakdowns and some cool shit going on with the synths. Also, I think I’ve made it pretty clear by now that I’m rather fond of Arsonists Get All the Girls.

Bring Me the Horizon have some decent breakdowns – I especially like the one towards the end of “Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick” (and I have to wonder to which Slater the band is referring – A.C. or Christian?) – but nothing to distinguish them from the pack. Count Your Blessings ends up being kind of an exercise in good background noise then – if I was, say, cleaning my apartment and I just needed something playing in the background, I think that Bring Me the Horizon might be good to have around. Not exactly high praise, I’m aware, but hey, it could be worse.

Blood Red Throne don’t have a lot going for them that Bring Me the Horizon don’t – except that instead of deathcore, they play somewhat more old fashioned, somewhat melodic Floridian-style death. It’s all very proficient and dare I say, for the gazillionth time, crushing – but if it inspired Morbid Angel-like fervor in anyone, I’d be kind of surprised. The problem, I think, is that there are no new tricks here; you could play me this album and tell me it’s any number of bands, and I wouldn’t believe you. Still, it’s all very… proficient.

Count Your Blessings:
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(two and a half out of five horns)

Come Death:

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(three out of five horns)

-AR

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  • Ryd1ZZ

    The Born of Osiris album is pretty good, I got it after seeing them play with As Blood Runs Black. They all look really young but I thought the same thing as you, they have potential. first thing they should look in to… longer tracks.

  • Hegster90

    Haven’t heard Blood Red Throne, but i liked BMTH. People rip on them all the time because of how they look , and their myspace page and it’s function as a quick ticket to fame…but they’re not half bad. Like you said, nothing mind blowing, nothing too original, but good.

    I’ll check out these Osiris fellows though. I like most of what you guys suggest anyway. Especially Sixth…who i just found have like 2 top 50 albums on Sputnikmusic.com. Sweet.

  • John D.

    That BRT album didn’t really show them at their best. Tchort’s a really talented dude and a couple of albums back he was really doing some great guitar stuff.

  • Chris Tate

    Why the fuck can you idiots not tell the difference between deathcore, and progressive death metal? Born of Osiris, The Faceless, Veil of Maya, After the Burial, and Despised icon, are all way too technical and intelligent to be labeled with such a horrible trendy title as “deathcore” . If you acknowledge such great bands as Meshuggah, Cynic, Between the Buried and Me, and other progressive bands, how can you not realize that bands like BOO and the faceless are the new generation of that music? they have the same qualities, just much heavier. get some knowledge.