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Rock
Release Date: 05/13/2008
After the more varied sound of their 2007 debut
Going to the Gallows, the second album by Connecticut metalcore outfit
Emmure sounds disappointingly one-dimensional. Singer
Frank Palmeri still shifts back and forth between a standard issue death growl and a more melodic clean vocal style, but these ten songs tend to stick to the same template of stuttering unison riffs and blast beats, so much so that there are times when it's hard to tell when one song ends and the next begins. (Seriously, the transition between the opening
"Young, Rich and Out of Control" and
"Sound Wave Superior" is negligible.) There are moments of power and release to be found on
The Respect Issue -- the "I'm so over it" refrain on
"Tales from the Burg" rocks hard -- but far too much of the album finds
Emmure stuck in a post-hardcore rut that they should be able to rise above.
~Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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