5.) Dear Elizabeth: One of the more mellow songs on the c.d. Starts off with an acoustic part, and goes into a mini guitar solo. This strong is very expressive, seeing that it is an instrumental. There’s not anything that exciting about this so. This song is more about Catherine showing another side to the band, and that they don’t keep to one sound. The best part of this song is that it transitions right into the next song and you can barely tell that they are two different songs (minus the fact that the vocals start right when it switches to track 6).

6.) Fallacy: Many hardcore bands have energy-packed songs, but don’t really evoke much emotion other than the raging hormones of a teenager. This band is different in that I see their music as more so poetry than just a bunch of a noise. This song is a piece of artwork. The screams sound awesome, yet you can still make out what he is saying. It’s hard for me to tell if in the recording there is a different screamer behind the main vocalist, or if it’s the same guy with some mixing done in the studio. The screams sound different enough that they could be two different band members, but at the same time it sounds like the main vocalist screaming in a higher pitch. Like in other songs, the screamer and singer sound great together (especially in the chorus).

7.) Thou Art A Villain: The transition into the verse really gets the song moving a lot. The drums keep the intro alive and you can get really feel the double bass. This song is effective at using dynamics. In some parts of the song one of the instruments will drop out making the overall sound of the bound lower, but still remaining heavy. The line, “There’s no heroes, there’s no heroes” is repeated over and over again until the song is over. I really like how they can use only one lyrical line and make it so powerful through repetition. The line eventually fades out into the nothing and leads into the next song.

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