I'm not the biggest metalcore fan as is, but this is bad even by those standards. The screams sound terrible, the clean vocals are autotuned to oblivion and still manage to sound off-key, and the instrumentation is metalcore 101. If it wasn't for the overproduced yet weak electronic sections, this would be what would happen if you forced an AI to listen to a bunch of metalcore songs and asked him to make his own. Even the lyrics are trash. They're too vulgar for the Christian market, but too sappy and overly religious for anything else. It's like they can't decide whether they're a Christian band or not. The only thing keeping me from giving this a lower score is Family Goretrait, which, while still bad, at last has a good guest appearance from the vocalist of Protest the Hero.
I'm not the biggest metalcore fan to begin with, but this is exceptionally awful. The trance sections are weak and horribly dated, the metalcore sections are basically what would happen if you showed some metalcore songs to an AI and asked it to make one of its own, the clean vocals are coated in autotune yet still somehow manage to be off-key, the screams sound constipated, and the lyrics are stupid and contradictory. One minute they're talking about how they love God, the next minute they're talking about how God is fake. One minute they're being all positive, and the next they're telling people to burn in Hell. One minute they're talking about doing God's work, the next they're talking about how all they want to do is party. Also, the song titles are cringeworthy. If it wasn't for some barely tolerable metal sections, and some actually good guest vocals from the lead singer of Protest the Hero on the song Family Goretrait, this would get an even worse score.
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