Search - Bury Your Dead :: Beauty and the Breakdown

Quite the satisfying skullcracker

A. Stutheit | Denver, CO USA | 08/21/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Due to the recent popularity resurgence of heavy metal (particularly hardcore influenced metal), a number of cool bands have kind of slipped through the cracks and are unjustifiably dismissed as being an untalented Johnny-come-lately. Consider Bury Your Dead: there are several other mosh/hardcore groups out there today and some of them are fairly popular, so bands like this one are sometimes passed off as a poor man's Hatebreed. But BYD should be (and probably will become) quite a bit more popular, because this genre has many loyal fans, and "Beauty And The Breakdown" (the Boston-based quintet's junior release) is actually very good. The musicianship and songwriting on display here are, while not awe-inspiring, completely solid and professional. The songs ooze with blistering guitars and cement-block-to-your-head drums which accumulate to produce catchy, brutal rhythms. And, of course, the songs are made complete when straight-from-the-gut (though generic) vocals and powerful, well-placed breakdowns are added. Album highlights are the super-heavy, churning rhythms on the two opening tracks ("House Of Straw" and "A Glass Slipper"), the explosive, bulldozing "The Poison Apple," the rapid power chords and propulsive, driving double bass work which fuels "A Wishing Well," and the door closing "House Of Brick," which sounds like a waterfall spewing...uh...bricks. Ultimately, "BATB" is nothing you haven't heard before, but that's a small price to pay for the immense levels of great energy and brute force found here."

Bury Your Dead!!!!!!!

M. Thompson | Virginia | 07/25/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Also the title of an awesome Haunted song, Bury Your Dead is back again. i always thought that cover your tracks didn't get the praise it deserved, I must have listened to that album 100 times it was quite simple and repetitive but I freakin loved it mostly because it delivered the raw brutality that I crave. I also thought that naming all of their songs after Tom Cruise movies was a cool idea having grown up watching Tom's ridiculous yet entertaining drivel throughout my childhood. Their follow up Beauty and the Breakdown is just as brutal and focused. I'm not sure how I feel about the title and the concept, but the songs are better written and the production is twice as good. Refraining from all the bells and whistles of most of todays attempts at metal brutality, Bury Your Dead stays true to their style with no appologies. Great work guys don't ever change."

Moshcore masters return

hellrun | wisconsin | 08/13/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Bury your dead are baco with their fourth album, "Beauty and the breakdown". Sort of a concept album in the very loosest term, the booklet for the story tells a "fairytale" about a corrupt king. This album is just as heavy and brutal as the previous three, except the band experiments just a little bit with keyboards on a couple tracks on here, but they make it work . A very good album from a very good band"