And Hell Followed With -Â Proprioception
By: Nick Habisch
Deathcore is a tricky genre. Many people despise it, and many bands get mislabeled as it, but in the end it is usually just really heavy melodic metal. One band that fits this description is And Hell Followed With on their second full lengthProprioception.
This band showcases its talent by being really heavy, but also infusing melodic guitar lines into some songs. The guitarists are pretty talented, relying on chugging riffs until they decide to spur into a melodic lead riff, which is a nice contrast to the heavy side of things. The vocalist is pretty versatile, utilizing everything from hardcore yells to deep gutturals. He brings a nice amount of variety to the album, and keeps it from getting too stale or repetitive. The drums are your standard speed fare, with a lot of triplet and quad double bass, and not much else. The bass is nowhere to be found, but gives the low end more punch.
This is honestly a hard album for me to review because for every generic boring chugging section, this band will break into a melodic guitar lead that sounds really good, but yet they never manage to transition the good sections into anything solid. They seem to always slip back into the mediocre sound that hurts so many bands of this genre. Even when they do delve into something interesting like the melodic lead at 2:37 of This Night is the Coroners, or the clean section from 2:35 till the end of Those Now Sleep Forever, they can never hold these quality sections over to anything substantial.
Although And Hell Followed With shows promise on Prorioception, there is not enough quality on this album to really recommend it. They have snippets of really good metal, but they need to figure out how to stretch this snippets into entire quality songs.
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