Apparently someone likes the current metalcore trend of cleaning up the sound and trying to emulate heavier metal stylings without the suffix ‘core’ attached. However, It Dies Today manage to completely botch the style change in almost every way possible. First off, the album still retains the ridiculous ‘metalcore’ songs that were just as abundant on their previous release. They also tend to land on the nü-emo side of the tracks instead of being the straight up metal band that they’ve said they wanted to be. [more]