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- Band:
OUR HOLLOW OUR HOME - Duration: 00:41:30
- Available from: 27/09/2024
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Rising Empire
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Those familiar with English metalcore from the last decade will be familiar with Our Hollow, Our Home, but for everyone else, a quick refresher: the Southampton band came out in the late 2010s with a couple of self-produced works (“Hartsick” and “In Moment // In Memory”) and the classic ass-kicking cover (Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You”), only to then give in to the allure of Arising Empire, with whom “Burn The Flood” was released in 2021.
Due to some personal problems, the launch of the new album coincides with the already announced breakup of the band, and so “Hope & Hell” is configured as a classic swan song, closing its doors after less than a dozen years of activity.
To say that we will miss them would perhaps be excessive, given the amount of similar bands around, but surely the English quintet confirms also in this case its innate ability to combine the typical energy of the most muscular metalcore with a strong melodic sense, placing itself as an ideal link between the rhythmic power of While She Sleeps and the emotion of The Amity Affliction.
Compared to the recent past, the rapped parts are fewer, while the two voices of Gaz and Tobias intertwine screams and choruses as sweet as a marshmallow in songs like “Castaway”, the title-track or “Veil Walker”, ideal meeting point between the melodic metalcore of the beginning of the century and the more modern approach of their compatriots Architects and Bury Tomorrow.
Between a fringed version of Tim Lambesis (“Funeral Verse”) and references to the pop/punk-core of the more carefree A Day To Remember (“Burial Season”, “Lifeline”) there is also space for the more intimate atmospheres of “In Reflection”, five minutes of meditation in which the English band lays bare their emotions without hiding behind a wall of electric guitars.
The only ones missing from the list were Bring Me The Horizon, who promptly materialize at the end (“Grave Warden”) confirming the initial thesis: Our Hollow, Our Home do not invent anything at all, but they have been able to take all the right references and condense them into a perfect album for fans of the genre.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM