It Dies Today is a New York based metalcore band that was formed in the year 2001. ‘Sirens’ is the bands second studio album and was originally released in America through Trustkill Records in 2006. In 2007 the album got its official UK release and ‘Sirens’ remains unchanged as to how it was originally released in the US. The album consists of eleven tracks and this therefore provides for 39 minutes of music. ‘Sirens’ is an album which brings nothing new whatsoever to the genre of metalcore, it’s an okay album however and although nothing special; It Dies Today has certainly taken a reasonable stab at the genre here.
The album begins with ‘A Constant Reminder’, ends with ‘Turn Loose the Doves’, and throughout this album the band bounces between harshly shouted vocal growls and sweetly spoken melodic verses also. This is an extremely generic album, if you’ve listened to a lot of albums in this genre then the music may well make you yawn; if you haven’t however then this album could well be quite appealing.
If you’ve got a soft spot for such bands as Still Remains and Bullet For My Valentine then you may well love this album, the music of It Dies Today possesses an extremely similar sound and it’s hard to listen to the music without drawing comparisons to other such metalcore bands as these. The guitar riffs are hugely hard hitting, the drumbeats are highly heavy, everything is entirely contrived here however and every last scream/melodic moment has been carefully placed and generically executed.
It Dies Today is a band that has taken its sound straight from the metalcore handbook and thrown as many clichés into the music as possible. Vocally the bands sound is like a million and one other bands of this sort and instrumentally also the bands sound isn’t exactly innovative. Instrumentally the sound is okay, every track present here sounds pretty much the same however and there is little telling these eleven tracks apart. Vocally the bands sound is actually quite well put across, the performance is not hugely passionate and the band does nothing that has not done before; the melodic vocal moments are very well put across however and the bands lead vocalist Jason Wood certainly has some strong vocal talent. Sadly with the shouted vocal lines the best use is not made of Jason Wood’s voice, were the band to make more of its melodic vocal element then this I feel would vastly improve upon the overall quality of the It Dies Today sound.
‘Sirens’ is no metlacore classic, it brings nothing new to its genre and due to the factor of all eleven songs sounding pretty much the same the album is therefore fairly dull to listen to. Only a few tracks into the album and you find your mind wandering, not enough is done here by It Dies Today in order to keep you interested; the sound has been done by others many times before, and it’s been done a lot better than this too. This ‘Sirens’ album lacks excitement, if you’ve not heard much metalcore music before then you may well quite enjoy this; if you’ve heard a lot of bands in the genre however then you’ll probably not be particularly enthralled with what you find here. There are some great metalcore albums out there, sadly however ‘Sirens’ is not one of them.
Label: Trustkill Records
Release Date: July 30th 2007
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