Two reviews in two days?! Yes, yes it is. Ok, so after my January review of Emmure’s The Respect Issue, I had high hopes for their August release Felony. After scrapping several long-winded, angry rants, I decided ultimately to just keep this review short and sweet: “What the fuck.” It should have been a *felony* to release this album! HYUK HYUK.
Musically, this is not the same Emmure I know and love. All this singing and chanting…just didn’t feel like metal at all to me, let alone a fitting Emmure release. And they decided that it would be totally brutal to add melody and smooth jazz into the drop B tuning while keeping the demonic tones? I just don’t see where they were going with this style.
These song titles…. you got to be kidding me. Is this The Devil Wears Prada? Sunday Bacon, I <3 EC2, You Sunk My Battleship, R2 Deepthroat? Come the fuck on. With these quirky, cutesy track names, they’ve successfully stooped to the level of lesser, popcore bands like Attack Attack! This helps lead me to believe they were trying to appeal to (i.e. selling out to) a younger, more mainstream crowd with this one.
So, Emmure…What the fuck?
i couldnt have said it any better
Emmure never were good to begin with imo.
your understanding of what “free jazz” is, is absurd.
this review sucks
emmure have always been scenexbreakxbrutalxcore band that appealed to the younger audience
this cd is shit. the chants? dont go with the music. its all over the place. chug chug chug with some annoying screetching. shit. goodbye to the gallows was the shit
All you guys are full of shit. This CD will put hair on your chest bitches!!!!
whore
Although I would agree with you in some aspects (the little 2 second rap thing is pretty stupid), I will say that it’s good in a different way. It’s a bit more nu-metal and still has that same feel like they have in previous albums. I think the lyrics are not as raw as anything in GTTG, but it’s still solid for the experimental stage that they are going through vocally and musically. Only ACDC and few others can be in the niche and stay their for the duration of their musical lives. They are pushing the envelope and naturally going towards a more mainstream while stringing along the metal with it. “Don’t Be One” was a real glimpse at the potential of the singer and how the band can really emerge as a powerful force in the upcoming new generation mainstream metal scene. I understand that it’s “not cool” to do, but you try living in a van for a year traveling the country and get down day in and day out, without stopping and thinking, “there’s gotta be some compromise”. All in all, the nu-metal mix is different especially since that time has come and gone, but in a few years all that nu-metal will come back and people will look at this album with new admiration as it was ahead and behind it’s time. They may have jumped the gun from the musical fashion loop, but all in all, I’m content with it.
file under “only good thing this band ever did was thier demo”
(yes yes, also inhabited by From Autumn to Ashes. . remember them?)
right then, i listened to a little bit of emmure before this release, but not too much, after this CD came out, i started getting into them, the thing with their old stuff is that it establishes that their vocals make the sound at that they have their own style. This is not some other mainstream band; they know what they’re doing… the new chants and whatnot that become present in felony deserve remark because they break the mold of the traditional breakdown and further establish Emmure’s credibility and desire to bring new things to the music world
fuck u bitch ass haters……….this album’s the shit, all theyre doing is puttin a little nu metal into it, r2 deepthroat is a tight ass song!!!
I personally think that Felony sucks. It sounds nothing like Emmure. Im very disappointed. I was surprised when I heard it. I checked twice to make sure it was Emmure that I was listening to. Wtf happened to them?? They did change a little bit up on the album The Respect Issue. But this is a huge change and I dont think its a good one.
This album sucked cock.