1. Voice of a Thousand Heroes
2. Han
3. Weight of the World
4. Armitage Shanks
5. Wake Up Call
6. Turn To Dust
7. Defences
8. The Exorcism of Self
9. Violence is a Virtue
10. Doctor Death
11. Eleventh Hour
Life Sentence are back with a full-length album for all you fans of melodic metal stuff. At the beginning of the album it seemed as if they had found an entirely different hardcore sound from their previous catchy style, but a couple of tracks later and they are back on form, delighting my ears with some intense sweeping melodies and thick screams.
The thing is, Life Sentence use a similar formula for almost all of their songs - they all contain a heavy metal palm-muted guitar riff in D - usually at the start, switch into some shouty verses and open out into their euphoric choruses in which they excel.
I've no doubt that if you listen to a few of their tracks you'll enjoy them immensely, but a whole album is kind of overkill on a limited selection of ideas.
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