THY ART IS GENERIC DEATHCORE

Two separate readers, Brett Wilcox and Spanky Gomez, have e-mailed us about Australia’s Thy Art is Murder, but I gotta ask: what’s the big deal? This band strikes me as being just about as generic as generic gets. Am I completely missing something here? Someone, please, tell me what’s so cool about this band. Sure, they’re better than a lot of their deathcore peers, but that’s like winning the gold medal (metal?) in the Special Olympics. I don’t have to fly to Australia to find a band that sounds like Thy Art is Murder — I just have to walk to the nearest local metal show.

-AR