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"The World Is My Enemy Now" is the third full length studio album by American metal band Upon a Burning Body. The album was released on August 12, 2014 through Sumerian Records. The album was produced by Will Putney, who produced their two albums, The World Is Ours and Red. White. Green.
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This is how the album goes: blows after blows with some headbangable groove permeated with howled vocals that duplicate during choruses. Best of all is the lack of tearfully bogus melody that breaks most of the metalcore songs. Do not think, however, that the album is repetitive: the tunes flow well enough to avoid turning this experience into a journey of boredom.
"Highlight Red Razor Wrists" opens the album by kicking in the door screaming of all the violence that lies ahead. The aggressive Danny Leal vocals do not slow down and sound awesome when folded as in "Pledge Your Allegiance". Sometimes there are flirtations with nu metal, but that descends quickly to an almost hardcore crash as in "The World is My Enemy Now". Matt Heafy from Trivium makes a cameo in "Blood, Sweat And Tears," one of the fastest songs. On the issue of curiosity we have "A Toda Madre ò un Desmadre" which is basically an instrumental song played on flamenco acoustic guitar; it's the coffee break.
Some incautious listeners may accuse Upon A Burning Body to be too modern for nu metal, too clean for death metal or too bitter for metalcore. I prefer to think that World Is My Enemy Now takes on the very best of each style and assembles the formula for a great metal album.
Reviewed by Marcelo Hissa for metalstorm.net.
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