New Whitechapel album

[lightsout]

I don't know how many Whitechapel fans we have here, but this new album is a masterpiece. Arguably their best work, definitely up there with This Is Exile as a complete body of work. Way more clean vocals than most deathcore albums, a lot of heavy stuff still there, and a few interesting song structures. Just a really good balance to the whole thing. Thoughts?
 

 

[Datawire]

I heard only one tune off the new one called Hickory Creek. I thought to myself "what is this poo? What happened to them!"

Your comments give me hope as I am a huge fan of This is Exile.  Please tell me the entire thing isn't like Hickory Creek.

[lightsout]

3 hours ago, Datawire said:

I heard only one tune off the new one called Hickory Creek. I thought to myself "what is this poo? What happened to them!"

Your comments give me hope as I am a huge fan of This is Exile.  Please tell me the entire thing isn't like Hickory Creek.

 

 

Not at all. There are (I think) 2 other songs with some clean vocals but not throughout the entire song like Hickory Creek 

 

I personally loved Hickory Creek. Really reminds me of A Perfect Circle and Stone Sour with those cleans. I dig Phil experimenting. But he still absolutely brings it with his lows and this album has some of his best highs ever IMO. 

 

 

[Bronn]

I'm kind of torn after a quick listen. It obviously isn't the Whitechapel that I loved from This Is Exile, but I can tell where they want to go. I'm just not sure if, initially at least, they got there.

The most reminiscent song for me was Brimstone.

The rest is deathcore-prog experimentation. TBQH IMHO Nobody will ever top The Contortionist's Exoplanet when it comes to that.

IMHO Whitechapel should stick to what they're good at, which is death metal influenced deathcore. Phil's vocals suit that way more than the cleans/nu-metal/prog elements that they are attempting to incorporate.

I know this is called "growing as an artist" but fans didn't like them because they saw some kind of artsy potential in them. They liked them because of the raw, groovy deathcore that they brought to the table.

 

[Bronn]

Sorry to post back to back like this, but:

I just keep coming back to this the more I think about it. During that era, Whitechapel and Carnifex were my favorite two bands in the genre. They were like new, grooved/cleaner sounding Morbid Angel (a band that gets nowhere near the credit they deserve for shaping today's bands) and they were doing it their own unique ways. I mean, listen to this, and you'll hear the roots:
 

Then listen to both of these:

 

 

I know it came out a little later, but Hell Chose Me hasn't been topped since. The whole album, the whole way through, is what death metal influenced deathcore should have been. This Is Exile is a close second.

But, to go from those to where those bands are now, especially Whitechapel, is just an anomaly to me. Carnifex, I have to say, is still doing their thing for the most part. I don't know what to think of Whitechapel now, and it is sad in a way.

That said, I mean, it IS still a good album. It just isn't what I want them to do, I guess.

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