New metalcore albums - Heavy, dynamic and charged

The metalcore scene is constantly evolving with newer bands and newer sounds. This is probably the most dynamic sub-genre of metal. With this, the number of albums released every year is high too.

This year's fall saw the scene being gifted with two well-crafted albums. They are The Devil Wears Prada's, Color Decay and I Prevail's, True Power. Here is a brief listen in to these two albums.

Color Decay - The Devil Wears Prada

Consistently dynamic in their creations, The Devil Wears Prada are a common name when it comes to vast metalcore anthems mixed with technical embellishments, ambient melodies, and groundbreaking lyrical content. It's what the band does best and with their recent album, Color Decay, they manage to align themselves with their tradition. However, the album does demonstrate their most enhanced skills and some of their most beautiful songs to date.

In a scenario where the result is something as strong as Color Decay, there's nothing wrong with sticking to tradition. The Devil Wears Prada starts things off in an energetic way with the track titled Exhibition. This track is adamant with the implication that the band can go extremely heavy when they choose too.

The next track, Salt, one of the top tier trackin the album and of the band, is a crystal clear example of how The Devil Wears Prada have evolved over time. It shivers in more emotive, atmospheric, and new flavours of metalcore. This track is done without any non-clean vocals. This is the kind of track that can possibly piss of an old-school fan. However, fans who have been accompanying the band in their entire journey will surely enjoy the growth.

If you do end up as a victim to the possible annoyance due to shift in sound, worry not, The Devil Wears Prada have tons of heavy metalcore to display across the album. Tracks like Watchtower, with its brutal tempo and dominating chorus. Then there are tracks like Sacrifice, which features drunk-punch swings of heaviness perfectly complimented by sobering effects. Finally, there are tracks like Time that goes from a calmed, melodic stance to a raring demonic inferno in few seconds. We as listeners never get tired of this transformation, do we?

One of the most well dreamt tracks in the album is probably Noise. Noise is a track which features a darker tone backed by a shrilled moment of choral vocals and one hell of a heavy showdown. This surely is the beast of all the tracks in the album. Broken on the other hand sprinkles melodrama to the way the album proceeds forward. Trapped stands tall both in tremors of instruments and vocals. Twenty-five is a track which is meant to move you in depths of what the track underlines.

One can agree with certainty that this album wins in terms of itsdynamism and variety, which is plenty. Secondly this version of the band is quite naked and raw. This album comes off as one of the most honest productions of the hand. Just in case you haven't noticed it that until Fire, the subtle melodies, effects and vocal isolation, will tell you all you need to know.

The album finally wraps up with two aspiring hits of modern The Devil Wears Prada. Hallucinate, where crunchy instrumentation bangs head-first into eerie and eccentric sounding effects and blistering vocals and Cancer, a spectacular example of just how thermic the band can get. Overall, the album is creatively done.

True Power - I Prevail

I Prevail, when they first came in the limelight of the world with their breakout Taylor Swift cover, can now be described as a band constantly raining hits onto the scene. The post-hardcore group has evolved to become one of the most exciting bands of today. This band has managed to present more hits with two albums than some bands accomplish in their whole career. In their last release Trauma, the band delved into broad external elements such as rapping. Did they think the same way in their most recent album True Power?

The album starts off with a brief cinematic sounding introductory passage and goes on to strike the ground with the second track, There's Fear in Letting Go. One cannot deny the influence of the dominating band Bring Me The Horizon to most bands in the scene presently. Elements of synths harmonising with, and complimenting against the raw drums and guitar rhythms. Brian Burkheiser, with his clean vocals takes advantage of the chorus to display his powerful voice for the anthemic chorus. You will notice that this album is meant for big venues and festival performances without any doubt.

As the album moves forward and crosses five tracks, a listener comes face to face with one of I Prevail's biggest song to date: Bad Things. This track is decorated with a catchy chorus, something similar to Silverstein's Bad Habits. And yes, it does incorporate rapping and in the perfect spot while it does. This is the song that you can expect to be played at your local alternative club. This song is going big and will travel more with time.

The album is not entirely fast paced. The band on True Power, shows a slower more intimate side to the band. This attitude is seen in closing tracks such as DoomedandDeep End. Such an attitude wasn't much reflected in the band's previous productions. The album is also well crafted in terms of its lyrics. Revolving around mental health, we see lines like, "I find the air is thin and I'm against the wind with each mountain left that I climb". Such words focus on pushing through the deep end of the bad situation that we constantly find ourselves being stuck in.

I Prevail have demonstrated themselves as a band thattransformed from strength to strength, and from clubs to academies. The band is finally set to play their UK tour. They are promising and have the potential to be the next big alternative act in the scene. Everyone knows that they possess this ability. Time will display where and what they are meant to be presenting in the future.

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