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A lot of things have changed for Story Of The Year
since they released their debut album 'Page Avenue'
back in 2004, the album was a poppy-emo album that
put the band on the map and songs like 'Until The
Day I Die' were anthems for teenagers across the
world with its extremely catchy vibe and lyrics.
The release of the bands second album 'In The Wake
Of Determination' shocked a few people, the extremely
poppy sound was almost gone, there was a few poppy
moments on offer but the majority of the album was
quite hard hitting, the bands stage show also changed
a lot and for the better with them showing off more
energy on stage than ever before spinning around
and doing crazy kung fu style kicks at every opportunity.
It all seemed to be going well for Story Of The
Year but both the public and the bands record label
didn’t think so, the sales of 'In The Wake
Of Determination' were extremely poor which then
forced the bands record label 'Warner Bros' to boot
them off their label.
Story Of The Year have now taken a bit of time
off to regroup and figure out what went wrong,
the band are now back and signed to Epitaph Records
and are gearing up to release their third full
length studio album 'The Black Swan' and it seems
like the band have gone away and thought about
what was right and wrong with their previous album
releases and have merged the sound of the two
together and have come back with a heavy album
with a lot of melodic moments which seems to work
quite well.
A recorded radio message talking about the state
of people’s children opens up the album
on 'Choose Your Fate' and as soon as the message
fades out, the song explodes in pure madness,
with heavy riffs and angry screams booming out.
The song is a well balanced mixture, the instrumental
work throughout the song is constantly heavy but
the vocals are forever changing from loud screams
to more melodic sing a long vocals which seem
to work extremely well.
The bands current single 'Wake Up' is a perfect
example of how Story Of The Year have changed
their sound for the better, the song is really
melodic, even when the chorus kicks in, the vocals
become a slight bit more louder but everything
still stays well in place and full of melody,
'Wake Up' is the perfect Story Of the Year song
where everything fits together so well.
The guitar work on offer on 'The Black Swan'
is outstanding, the riffs are fast and loud and
there are many big solo's on offer such as on
'The Antidote', the overall guitar work running
throughout the song is pretty damn good, but it’s
the huge sounding guitar solo towards the middle
of the song that really stands out.
If you are not a Story Of The Year fan, you could
soon well be after hearing 'The Black Swan', it
seems like the band have taken the best elements
from their two previous albums and worked on merging
the two sounds together to create the sound that
is on offer on 'The Black Swan'. Think of Senses
Fail mixed with Rise Against and the melodicness
of the first Story Of The Year album and you will
close to knowing what 'The Black Swan Sounds'
like.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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Dan Marsala (Vocals)
Ryan Phillips (Guitar)
Philip Sneed (Guitar, Vocals)
The Skull (Bass)
Constable Wills (Drums) |
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1. Choose Your Fate
2. Wake Up
3. The Antidote
4. Tell Me
5. Angel In The Swamp
6. The Black Swan
7. Message To The Web
8. Apathy Is A Deathwish
9. We're Not Gonna Make It
10. Cannonball
11. Terrified
12. Pale Blue Dot
13. Welcome To Our New War |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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