Metal Band of the Week:
For All Their Lives
November 7, 2009 by Kyle BradyTags: Band, For All Their Lives, Metal, Music, Review
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While not strictly metal, For All Their Lives is a band that lives on the borders and is worth mentioning, thanks to their sound and distinct showing of promise. This five-piece out of the northern Gulf Coast of Florida is a compelling fusion of post-hardcore, a less-annoying brand of emocore, and progressive hardcore, which sounds as if it might be an unruly mess of noise – except that it isn’t.
For most bands with only a two-song catalog to cherry-pick, it’s difficult to find distinctive themes throughout their work, but For All Their Lives’ musical influences and heroes make themselves extremely evident, at least within the shadowy boundaries of the metal community: Saosin, Misery Signals, Bless The Fall, and other similar bands that prefer to blend their genre constraints. Perhaps this is why their band image is what some would consider decidedly “unmetal”, but the v-neck t-shirts and slightly-messy, short-length hair can be found in those which they are channeling.
The use of both harsh vocals and higher-pitched, borderline emo singing creates a dichotomy that works surprisingly well, allowing the musical vibe to be rhythmic, uplifting, and, at times, groove-worthy. Additionally, the choice of guitar techniques and sound follow similar patterns that switch between heavily distorted breakdowns and faster-paced, melodic-riff choruses that enhance the vocal techniques to greater effect.
Great potential lies with For All Their Lives as a genre-fusion band on the very edges of metal, and they may end up effecting the same genres of which they span – only time will tell.
For All Their Lives can be found on MySpace, along with their two-song catalog.
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