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The Auburn, New York unit, If Hope Dies, received a lot of praise from the critics after the release of their album "The Ground Is Rushing Up to Meet Us" in 2004. Now they are back with the release of “Life In Ruin” on Ironclad Recordings. The music on “Life In Ruin” is a mix of up-tempo metal meets hardcore with melodic guitar lines, chunky breakdowns combined with Alan French’s hardcore vocals. All members of the band are skilled musicians and since the production is quite good as well there are not many things to complain about. If Hope Dies have managed to make a good metalcore album with some great songs on. Sometimes they lose some of the aggression in the effort to be melodic, but when they manage to keep the intensity up this is just great metalcore. I am personally not that keen on Alan’s vocals, but that is just a matter of personal taste. Besides that I like “Life In Ruin” and I believe that many lovers of metalcore and metal heads as well are going to like this one.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Burned Out |
| 2. Anthem For The Unemployable |
| 3. Dead Reckoning |
| 4. Time Is Not On Our Side |
| 5. Fear Will Keep Them In Line |
| 6. Water Into Wine Cooler |
| 7. The Ultimate Nullifier |
| 8. Marked For Death |
| 9. Some Skynard |
| 10. Nuked From Orbit |
| 11. Life In Ruin |
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