CD review, Dec 08. Misery Signals – Controller (Ferret Music)

Metalcore. More Metalcore. What is there to say? It’s pretty damn heavy, the riffing is sweet, not too busy, haven’t heard any pinched harmonics and there isn’t any of the ‘This is my Last Serenade’ type full melodic vocal chorus/breakdown. Yet. In fact, aside from the general tough guy main vocal it’s not too bad. The production’s great. Ah hang on, didn’t take long for the double tracked backing vocal a few octaves up to appear, those pinch harmonics just started squeaking and while the oh-so-familiar chorus isn’t quite full on melody, it’s the same thing just about. Generally, musically, this is slightly different, but really? No, it isn’t. It’s Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed and a few others and that’s it. Good luck to ‘em, they’re touring a lot though, so somebody gets it. I don’t.