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ANOTHER KIND OF DEATH  Sleepless Every Night  CD   (Underhill)   11.98


We've listed a couple of other releases from Another Kind Of Death before, most recently with the compilation CD Waterloo that they shared with other Spanish metalcore bands Moksha, Moho and Adrift. I've always like Another Kind Of Death's frenzied, vaguely mathy metalcore, with their obvious nods to Botch and Cave In and the occasional spacey electronic textures that they would employ in some of their songs. Their latest album Sleepless Every Night shows the band further fleshing out their aggressive metallic hardcore sound, still indebted to the mathy, angular riffs of Botch and Converge, but now flexing some raging rock muscle that reminds me of the swingin' gutter sass that Every Time I Die has perfected. Huge rocking grooves appear alongside the more discordant guitar riffs on songs like "Electric Manifest", and the vocalist even busts out some gruff singing on some of the songs. Something that I really like about Sleepless Every Night - and I'm not if it's intentional or not - but I'm also hearing nods to classic 90's Am Rep noise rock like Unsane and early Helmet and even the windswept guitar chords of Novelty-era Jawbox in here too, which if you know me at all, is nothing but a good thing. Another Kind Of Death aren't doing anything radically different with their version of hard rock/noise rock-tinged modern metalcore, but the songs are crushing, there are hooks galore, and there's a great instrumental intermezzo that blends some sad slide guitar playing with a heavy dirge riff that reminds me of a less weighty Neurosis jam compacted down into a sweet three-minute lament.


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