Artist: Black Veil Brides
Album: We Stitch These Wounds
Date Released: July 20, 2010
Genre: Emo/Post Hardcore
Album Review:
After the single Knives and Pens was released, quite a stir has followed the name Black Veil Brides. With a heavy Hot Topic endorsement and quick fanbase, this LA group seemed to have a bright and promising future.
But alas, there is nothing impressive, unique, or interesting about this release. It seems like BVB borrowed elements from different post-hardcore bands, watered them down, and crammed them into 12 highly boring songs. The album is laced with emotionless guitar solos, awkwardly placed screams, and an all-too-familiar set of guitar riffs. This band could easily have been renamed "insert name of a screamo band here". As a debut album, this doesn't favor well for the band. We Stitch These Wounds should be an album that defines BVB, and makes them stick out of the massive crowd of bands in their niche. Instead, it is Black Veil Brides that are stitching their wounds, the wounds of failure.
Everything from the generic lyrical themes to the pathetic breakdowns interspersed, to the Joker-influenced face plastered onto the cover make this an album worth skipping, or it will be the listener who will have wounds to stitch.
Rating: 3.5 out of 10
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