HASTE THE DAY SHOULD KEEP DREAMING OF A BETTER ALBUM
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 at 2:33pm by Christopher Roddy
While I can appreciate some good metalcore, the more poppy side of the subgenre grates on me considerably. I’m also not a Christian, not by any stretch of the imagination. But Haste The Day dig Jesus quite a bit — not that there’s anything wrong with that — and the songs on their new album Dreamer follow the predictable pop-metalcore format (screaming verses followed by a catchy, sing-song chorus interrupted by a chugging breakdown and closing out with more EMOtive singing). Suffice it to say, Dreamer is not for me.
As far as “metalcore by numbers” goes, Haste the Day is pretty much Exhibit A (and Christian metalcore, to boot!). But who the fuck cares when you’ve got riffs as irresistible as the main riff in this song? Well actually, that’s kind of the only redeeming quality of this album, and I kind of want to stick pins in my ears when they start clean singing, but that opening riff… damn!
