Grace GaleThis is one of the more bizarre releases I have reviewed. It’s melodic metalcore with a frontman that sounds almost exactly like the guy from Thursday. The music for the most part is nothing new except for some disjointed measures that detract from the flow of the songs. Case in point, the song "Chairman of the Nessie Alliance" breaks into a terrible and out of place acoustic guitar part with bad singing at the 3:40 second mark of the song until it breaks back into the metalcore. The song would’ve been a lot more tolerable if not for this. But what makes this release so bizarre is I can’t tell if the music is tongue in cheek, the lyrics or even both. The lyrics are humorous and pokes fun at bands of the same genre that cry about girls instead of fucking girls. Instead of being the band that wears the tight pants they’ll steal them from you. So I give them props for their ability to add a strange new asthetic to the ever bastardized genre of metalcore. I mean the album is titled "A Few East Steps to Secure Heli-Camel Safety." Bottomline, I enjoyed the concept of the album a lot more than the musical content. It got some laughs and some cringes as well. A nice attempt to do something fresh and new but the music makes it a feeble attempt in my eyes. The production sounds good, like they got Thursday money of some shit. The layout on this is probably the best part, it’s like a little booklet of laughs with all kinds of odd quotes and illustrations. The cover features a green camel attached to rotatators in a grey background. Definitely good shit. But other than that, this release didn’t do it for me.
Rating: 2.5/5
Songs worthy of replay: Just read the lyrics
Thesis: Why cry when you can fuck?