Artist: Haste the Day
Album: Attack of the Wolf King
Date Released: June 29, 2010
Genre: Metalcore
Album Review:
From the band's inception, Haste the Day has steadily grown to garner respect from both Christian and non-Christian metalheads, with unique riffs and slamming breakdowns that definitely made them competitors for iPod space. Even with vocalist changes in their lineup, the band has prospered under the shade of Solid State, and have thus released their fifth album.
Attack of the Wolf King is a heavier attempt at music than Dreamer and Pressure the Hinges were. The danger, however, is the temptation of throwing something heavy together and forgetting to put actual talent into it. The album features generic breakdowns, and though it has some impressive riffs, and great intros like the song The Un-Manifest, the album has the same flow of any album in the genre, except without a decent ending track (White As Snow would have been a great ender, but it was placed in the middle). However, in spite of how predictable the album is, it offers some great chorus lines, like in the song Merit For Sadness; "open my heart to sadness, it's through the pain that I believe, it's through the pain that I can see". And the album does have a heaviness to it than can merit some respect.
I enjoyed the album, to be sure. But I expected more from the band's ability to surprise me in the past with outstanding metalcore tunezzz.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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