 
British bruisers are back again to show they've got some balls. Their first album cracking, second blowing it out of the water before the third being quite the letdown in my opinion, it was decent but it wasn't as smooth flowing as its predecessor. Let's see how number 4 rates in the grand scheme of things.
This review took longer than I'd usually spend because after the first couple of listens I couldn't be sure how I actually felt about it. Now having spent a week with nothing else but those tracks in my car I can safely say I love it.
My favourite tracks are "301" featuring Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta, title track "Earthbound", "Cemetery", "The Eternal" and "Bloodline". That's half the album and they're embedded in my mind causing my to spontaneously burst into song at random intervals.
To talk about the material I can only say that they stood true to their heavy tone with an almost schizophrenic metalcore shift in tone during each song from gritty and aggressive to melodic and calm. This was the general mock up for second album "Union of Crowns" but this was more in your stereotypical stadium metal style easily digestible and catchy(which I adored) but with this new monster they've obviously branched out and tried new things and it makes quite the enjoyable album.
4/5
Review by James Webb
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