 
I discovered Mutiny Within when they were just
called Mutiny and had just been signed to Roadrunner
Records many years ago, eager to hear what they
had to offer I patiently waited until they changed
their name to Mutiny Within and put out their
self titled debut album which was an absolute
musical masterpiece of which I fell completely
and utterly in love with. That was in 2010 and
then news broke that vocalist Chris Clancy was
leaving the band and that was causing them to
dissolve the project, I was heartbroken; but then
I was sorting through my last.fm account and saw
that there was an advert for their second album,
my eyes widened and I scoured the internet to
find details and as it turns out it was all true
and they’ve just release their second album!
I’m too excited to waffle on anymore but
to cut it short they’ve decided to carry
on as a band as Clancy has decided to rejoin!
What I particularly loved about the band was that
I have quite a passion for aggressive music with
melody, I feel that there is an art to it being
able to mix separate emotions into 1 batch of
music, Clancy’s vocals have immense range
on top of the mass of heavy high octane drum sections,
crunchy distortion and very mellow keyboard backing
to give the vocals more of an effect. This has
picked up exactly where they left off as a few
of them were unreleased songs they were working
on around the same time as the first album, “Embers”
kicks us off and absolutely nothing is different
style wise, obviously they’ve added things
so that each song isn’t exactly the same
but nothing substantial, which is a good thing
in this case. “In My Veins” pushes
itself to the surface with extreme aggression
and we have those good old growls back, “Fall
To Pieces” is incredibly bouncy in all the
right places, “The Unsaid” is unbelievable
evil in terms of tone at times and more like an
aggressive metalcore track than that of Mutiny
Within’s usual style, but it works.
Oh my goodness I don’t think I can muster
the words – or am I sure any exist –
to describe just how happy I am that they’ve
decided to come back, I was in an ok mood today
but now I’m hyped and excitable which is
a good way to send me off to work. I suggest to
absolutely everyone no matter what type of alternative
music you’re into be it rock, hard rock,
metal, thrash, hardcore anything; give this a
spin and hopefully we’ll all have at least
1 band we can all agree on.
5/5
Review by James Webb
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