Released: Jun 29, 2010
Genre: Metalcore
Label: Solid State
Number Of Tracks: 11
Haste The Day has always had their own unique sound and made it even better on this release.
Attack Of The Wolf King
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SHREDDER_DUDE:), on july 12, 2010 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Sound: Haste the Day is back and more powerful than ever. A friend of mine actually told me about these guys back when Pressure The Hinges was released and I had a listen but didn't find anything special about them. Then I listened to their single Travesty and it blew me away. The album is loaded with harmonized melodies and machine gun riffs along with some really good vocals from Stephen Keech. One of my favorite releases of 2010 along with Fear Factory's "Mechanize". In order I will list the songs and my ratings for each one along with comments:
01. Wake Up the Sun 10/10 (A great opener for the album. It has a really cool intro and outro and good vocals from Keech)
02. Dog Like Vultures 10/10 (My favorite track of the whole album. Really smooth intro and then the second guitar comes in with a reverse gallop chug riff; AMAZING. Great use of a killswitch and just a great song)
03. The Quiet deadly Ticking 8/10 (Really good chorus and an awesome breakdown)
04. Travesty 10/10 (This is where their guitarists talent really shines. The intro lick is amazing and the harmonized melody in the verse is really cool. Keech has some great clean vocals that sound sort of like the vocalist/guitarist of The Devil Wears Prada.
05. Merit For Sadness 7/10 (Good track but not as good as the others on the albums. Once again cool chorus)
06. Un-Manifest 9/10 (This is another great song. Starts out with a bunch of scratchy harmonics played in the beginning)
07. A Place That Most Deny 8/10 (Awesome riff, also a really good clean breakdown)
08. White As Snow 9/10 (Definitely Stephen Keech's best vocal performance.)
09. Crush Resistance 7/10 (Nothing really special about this song except for maybe the guitar licks)
10. Walk With a Crooked Spine 8/10 (Really plain until it gets to the middle then there are some cool sweeps and other cool stuff)
11. My Name Is Darkness 9/10 (Nice wmotional song)
12. Meet Half Way (cover)11/10 (hahahahaha probably the funniest cover ever made)
The last two tracks are just live versions of Pressure the Hinges and Blue 42. // 9
Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics are Christian influenced and I've noticed that there are lots songs containing the words "Jackal" and "Sun". Stephen Keech, in my opinion, is Haste the Day's best vocalist yet. The lyrics are about Great vocals, that's all I can say. About lots of modern world dilemmas. // 8
Impression: If I were to pick an artist that is almost exactly like these guys new album is, it would be August burns Red. They are so similar the only difference is that ABR's Jake Luhrs is a better screamer and that ABR don't have clean vocals (Except for Indonesia). The shining tracks of this album are "Wake Up The Sun", "Dog Like Vultures", "Travesty" and "White as Snow". I would definitely buy this album again if it got lost. LOVE IT! // 10
Attack Of The Wolf King
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ClassicDisaster, on july 09, 2010 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Sound: For their newest opus, Haste the Day take their patented melodic-to-ultra-heavy sound to the next level. With the addition of new lead guitarist Scotty, the technical ability of the guitar playing is definitely bumped up a few notches, and with new drummer Guiseppe behind the skins, the rhythm section has never been tighter. AOTWK contains some of the more delicious and brutal breakdowns of HTD's career ("The Un-Manifest"), to some of their most progressive and melodic work ("White as Snow"). // 10
Lyrics and Singing: On the special edition of AOTWK, at the end of the live version of "Blue 42," Stephen explains the reason why Haste the Day was and still is a band: to share the love of Jesus Christ with the world. That fact is evident throughout the imagery employed in the lyrics of this album, which are top notch and flow so well with the overall feel of the cd. I have always thought that Stephen has such a better range vocally than Jimmy had, as well as the ability for some amazing clean vocals, and for AOTWK Stephen has only gotten better. With the departure of Brennan, the duties of singing the harmonies have fallen onto the only original member of the band left, bassist Mike Murphy, and he does a spectacular job. // 10
Impression: I believe this CD stands out as the best of Haste the Day's career, and is definitely at the top of the list of best heavy music cd's of the year for me. I love everything about it, from the apparent skill of each musician to the powerful message of the lyrics. It's hard for me to pick stand out tracks, because they all are so good, but for a sick, but for all you metal head/breakdown kids, check out "The Un-Manifest," for those of you that want an addicting chorus to be stuck in your head for days, check out "Dog like Vultures," and to catch Haste the Day at their most progressive, give "White as Snow" a listen. // 10
Attack Of The Wolf King
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metallicaflavor, on july 07, 2010 0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Sound: Haste the Day is back with their newest release 'Attack of the Wolf King'. This album has got to be the best I've heard from them so far becvause it has the agressive, raw metalcore sound of the first two albums combined with the more progressive and technical sound of their two latest albums, and adds it's own flavor into the mix. Stephen Keech has definitely refined his vocals from a more gutty sound from 'Dreamer' to a better, unique scream of his own for this release. Dave Krysl's guitar is very good and has many good riffs in the album. Giuseppe Capolupo's drumming is great and his double-basds drumming is perfect. Drum fills are good and his kit sounds good too. Refined and loud, unlike the empty sounding snare or the wierd kick from 'Dreamer'. // 10
Lyrics and Singing: Being a christian band, the lyrics are focused towards religious topics, but are good on their own. The lyrics usually stay good and on time except for a few times when they obviously had to squeeze in words. Like I said before, Stephen Keech's vocals are much better and refined from Dreamer. You can also understand his vocals a whole lot more than other vocalists. The clear singing is great and sounds like a flashback to 'When Everything Falls' where literally every song had a melodic chorus. The song "White As Snow" is completely sung out in clear and it is personally my favorite song on the album. "The Place That Most Deny" has a great chorus also. "Travesty" is also one of my favorites on the album and has great song structure. // 8
Impression: Haste The Day has always had their own unique sound and made it even better on this release. You can't really compare the entire album to others, but you can compare songs. For instance, "The Place That Most Deny" has a Slipknot-like riff throughout the song. There are many more complex breakdowns like August Burns Red style. In conclusion, this album is a good buy for any metalcore fan. Definitely listen to the entire thing and don't skip songs, because they are all good. // 9
i didn't know guitars contained riffs. do you press the mystery 'riff button' and a riff comes out?
He was saying that his guitar [work] on the album is good. Don't try to be a douche, you know what he meant. It's not an uncommon thing to say "this album has good guitar."
regardless, this cd is amazing. better than anything they've done yet.
Nope. That would be Pressure the Hinges.
Decent album. I don't really care for the direction HTD has taken, though. Now they just sound like any other metalcore band. They used to have more of a uniqueness.
I believe this is HTD's best album yet. Their old stuff is different from their new stuff. Keep in mind also that there is only one original member left in the band.
I'm not a HTD fan but I listened to the album. As far as metalcore goes it was pretty good but I didn't much care for it due to my own preferences in music.
Good album, terrible review. Un-manifest is definitely one of the best songs i've heard from this band
Def agree that song has an awesome breakdown. Pressure the Hinges is prolly my favorite album just because it offers so much more than any other album. Lots of breakdowns, great harmonies and choruses (plus its almost 50 min long). Best songs on Attack of the Wolf King IMO are Dog Like Vultures, The Un-Manifest, and White as Snow.
Haste The Day really surprised me this album. I seriously wasn't expecting much from it, because their last album, Dreamer, was, in my opinion, a terrible album. But I went ahead and bought it anyway, because I've always been a fan of Haste The Day. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised by how GREAT of an album it was! The new guitarists definitely bring more technical riffage to the table, which scores huge points with me. And after hearing the bassist sing, I was left wondering why the rest of the band didn't let him sing earlier in their career! Basically, I'm happy that Haste The Day is making awesome music again. Sorry for the wall of text, lol.
Jon777 wrote:
Oh, also, I was pleasantly surprised to hear Micah Kinard make a guest appearance on The Place That Most Deny. Awesome vocalist.
Same here, Jon! OH, SLEEPER FANS UNITE! xD But yeah, I had no idea he was on the album, but right when his part in that song came on, I recognized his voice right away and I was like "AWESOME!" Lol.
its a great album but i still miss the days of burning bridges (their best album and will always be their best) and when everything falls but some sicks riffs none the less and yes very ABResque with their breakdowns on this album
regardless, this cd is amazing. better than anything they've done yet.
Nope. That would be Pressure the Hinges.
Decent album. I don't really care for the direction HTD has taken, though. Now they just sound like any other metalcore band. They used to have more of a uniqueness.
Yeah dude, HTD are still my favorite band, each album is completely different. I think that Pressure the Hinges was the best, but none of their albums (I haven't been able to track down When Everything Falls) have disappointed me. I know a guy who disliked Dreamer so much that he gave it away. Burning Bridges was good in the fact that it had good guitar solos etc. and then Pressure the Hinges which contains my favorite lineup. I love the vocals on Dreamer also, I haven't had time to listen to AOTWK as I am very busy and my iPod is broken but from what I have heard still on top of their game. The vocals are still awesome, guitar is mean too. People say that they sound the same as everyone else, but they don't! HTD are extremely unique, I've never heard a band with vocals like Keech! With the vocals of Keech and the clean singing in the choruses, this is one of the most unique sound I've ever heard!
Great music but I'll have to agree with John777 and say that I miss the uniqueness that Pressure the Hinges had. Oh, and of course Brennan was one of the best clean voices of metalcore.
Cool band , it just sucks that most of the original guys are gone
What really sucks is that they are now broken up. I always enjoyed HTD, but this album completely blew me away. Stephen Keech is an amazing and unique vocalist. he can seamlessly go from scream, to semi-scream/clean, to clean with such ease. Not to mention, their guitar work seems to be especially nifty on this one. Man, I'm really bummed about losing such a good band.
Cool band , it just sucks that most of the original guys are gone
What really sucks is that they are now broken up. I always enjoyed HTD, but this album completely blew me away. Stephen Keech is an amazing and unique vocalist. he can seamlessly go from scream, to semi-scream/clean, to clean with such ease. Not to mention, their guitar work seems to be especially nifty on this one. Man, I'm really bummed about losing such a good band.
Exactly...
Even though it's probably gotten less original since PTH, I really enjoyed this album. It's not that it was original, it was just good. They took all the crap everyone else does and made it good!
Sorry for the wall of text, lol.