  
UK metalcore bruisers Bury Tomorrow made a huge
impression when they had a huge breakthrough in
2010 when their debut album “Portraits”
was released; touring vigorously over the world
to get their name out there whilst their name
was still flying under the radar in their home
country. This all changed in 2011 when they really
worked their asses off touring with the likes
of While She Sleeps and Of Mice & Men alongside
numerous festival appearances building hype for
the drop of their follow up album “The Union
of Crowns” which has had numerous release
dates fail to come through due to improper representation
until Nuclear Blast picked up the band and now
it’s due to drop this coming Friday, 13th
July 2012.
I loved the material on their first record but
always felt the poor production left the tracks
sounding a bit too raw, mostly in the guitars
and growling vocal department, the first clear
thing I noticed on the first listen to “The
Union of Crowns” was that this has been
completely eliminated as the sound is perfectly
full and thick sounding. “Redeemer”
starts us off with is an extremely dramatic and
powerful way to open an album, the melodic vocals
that made the first album so successful are on
great form here with a huge feeling of real emotion.
The first single debuted on the While She Sleeps
tour and to actually be released on the airwaves
was “Lionheart”, the song encompasses
the same style as the first track except it’s
much much heavier with a much higher tempo, the
chorus as well when I witnessed it performed it
is a definitely crowd pleaser.
Second single “The Maiden” was released
online recently also and it’s also a bit
of a monstrosity, in a good way, I could go on
and describe them all but to be honest they all
follow the same basic structure; take the clean
vocals from As I Lay Dying, the screaming vocals
from Lamb of God and to back that a musical composition
comprising from the lick filled upbeat style of
All That Remains crossed with the simplistic heavy
edge from let’s say Atreyu. One would say
that the fact you could easily pick separate aspects
of bands to describe another that it would inevitably
at some point rip them off, here however this
is not the case as the band use these distinctive
points from various bands across the genre and
combine them to produce the freshest of sounds
in a what was thought to be dying genre.
Now they have a stellar album under their belts
that sound’s crisper than anything they’ve
been dragging along with them before, if they
start to really make a push exposure wise they
may be able to force their way into the limelight
as they’ve suddenly found this motivational
explosion all of a sudden with booking these high
profile tours and making sure they’re where
they’ll most get noticed, this is Bury Tomorrows
year.
4.5/5
Review by James Webb
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