TO THE GRAVE – Everyone's A Murderer

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7.5

• Band:
  TO THE GRAVE
• Duration: 00:32:08
• Available from: 08/30/2024
• Label:

• Unique Leader

It's been a little over a year since “Director's Cut”, but To The Grave clearly have too much anger, as evidenced by their barbaric and hyper-violent deathcore, which they forcefully channel towards the veg/animalist debate with a title and very explicit cover artwork in which bloodied children feast on a pile of animal corpses.
Titles like “DxE Or Die” (Direct Action Everywhere is a global network of animal rights activists), “A Body For A Body”, “Burn Your Local Butcher” and “Vegan Day Of Violence” incite the classic “firestorm to purify” of progenitors Earth Crisis, with purely deathcore misanthropy and disgust.
The conversation continues directly from the previous album, with songs that exacerbate the classic formula of Suicide Silence and play with death metal, slam and hardcore influences, remaining around three minutes in length. A fairly formulaic recipe that cannot be denied, but which remains fun for the urgency that the Australians manage to transmit, for the ease with which the various influences alternate and, above all, for the contribution of vocalist Dane Evans. Constantly under the spotlight thanks to a careful mix and a band that allows a lot of space, Evans writhes in the disgusting deathcore repertoire confirming himself as the MVP of the band, underlining each passage with extreme brutality and loading his intolerance to the extreme, without however falling into circus exaggerations like some colleagues.
The band reserves some variations for the second part of the album, in which the activist Sophie Wilcher becomes the singer, lending a contrast to the vocal melodies of “Eight Four One Six”, but also with “Dead Wrong”, a song in which the band totally veers towards the death metal son of Dying Fetus and Thy Art Is Murder.
Particularly frenetic and creative tracks such as “DxE Or Die”, “Made In Aus” and “Vegan Day Of Violence” can only confirm the state of form of the Australians, who repeat the good things proposed last year and will make those looking for blood, conviction and a message behind the music happy.
To The Grave's vegan deathcore may have reached the limits of its intrinsic nature, given the lack of evolution from their previous album, but the intensity is definitely the same, and this is undoubtedly above average.