Against the Elements
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Against the Elements专辑介绍
Imitation is the sincerest form of attempting to turn a profit through a willing audience, whilst you simultaneously pull the wool down over its eyes. In the case of Massachusetts' Beyond the Embrace, the design was not only to emulate their Swedish heroes In Flames, but also up the ante a bit. This was to be accomplished by adding a third guitar player to the roster. So the same dual leads you heard from the European heroes can come off stronger in the live arena, with a rhythm guitar still chugging away beneath them, or the band could simply rip out a triple harmony. In principle, this is not a bad game plan, and having seen the band live, it's effective enough from the sheer sonic standpoint.
Metal Blade saw this potential, and in the midst of helping snag up ever halfway competent band playing melodic death metal in the wake of the genre's titans (In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, Soilwork, etc), a deal was born. Beyond the Embrace tweaked a bunch of tunes from their s/t 2001 demo and headed out on the same road to success that worked for their state peers All That Remains, Unearth, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, and so forth. Unfortunately, Against the Elements suffers from the same ingredients it so wished to thrive upon, and the album is really just a clone of 1996-2000 era In Flames, with a mix of Anders Friden and James Hetfield vocal styles, lacking all of the power of its 'host' band.
You can't really just string along an entire album of cutesy melodic leads and hope for the best. The reason these worked so wonderfully with In Flames and the other Swedish bands was due to the general uplifting nature of the music, the glorious surge that the traditional metal melodies could take in a head-on collision with the extreme vocals and thundering aggression. Beyond the Embrace are craft enough to write a thousand or so noodling riffs, but the rhythm guitar consistently sucks, and the result is the band sounds half like Sum 41 or Blink 182 with Trivium + Anders vocals and metal guitar leads. Listen to a song like
Metal Blade saw this potential, and in the midst of helping snag up ever halfway competent band playing melodic death metal in the wake of the genre's titans (In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, Soilwork, etc), a deal was born. Beyond the Embrace tweaked a bunch of tunes from their s/t 2001 demo and headed out on the same road to success that worked for their state peers All That Remains, Unearth, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, and so forth. Unfortunately, Against the Elements suffers from the same ingredients it so wished to thrive upon, and the album is really just a clone of 1996-2000 era In Flames, with a mix of Anders Friden and James Hetfield vocal styles, lacking all of the power of its 'host' band.
You can't really just string along an entire album of cutesy melodic leads and hope for the best. The reason these worked so wonderfully with In Flames and the other Swedish bands was due to the general uplifting nature of the music, the glorious surge that the traditional metal melodies could take in a head-on collision with the extreme vocals and thundering aggression. Beyond the Embrace are craft enough to write a thousand or so noodling riffs, but the rhythm guitar consistently sucks, and the result is the band sounds half like Sum 41 or Blink 182 with Trivium + Anders vocals and metal guitar leads. Listen to a song like