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By Night
Burn the Flags
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Between The Lines
2. Part Of Perfection
3. One And The Same
4. Raise Your Voice
5. Completed
6. Behind In Silence
7. Unseen Oppression
8. At The End Of The Day
9. Dead Or Confused

CD Details

All Artists: By Night
Title: Burn the Flags
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: LIFEFORCE RECORDS
Release Date: 2/22/2005
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
Style: Hardcore & Punk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 826056005024

Synopsis

Album Description

From the ashes of PREDICTED CONSPIRACY, BY NIGHT rose in 1999 to create more aggressive and intense music. After adding vocalist, Adrian Westin (AGGRESSIVE SERPENT), in 2002 the group was voted one of the best unsigned bands by Monster Magazine and Close-Up (Sweden). BY NIGHT were signed to Lifeforce Records in 2004, and a split-release with CIPHER SYSTEM quickly followed. Hailing from Falkenberg, Sweden, BY NIGHT bring a dynamic fusion of different musical backgrounds with one common threadmetal. BY NIGHT were inspired by classical melodic death metal in their early days, but they have gradually changed and incorporated hardcore influences. BY NIGHT offer a dynamic mix of death/thrash metal and hardcore elements particularly with their vocals. Their debut full-length, Burn The Flags, will appeal to metal and hardcore fans who like EXTOL, MESHUGGAH, OPETH and ENTOMBED.

CD Reviews

Good heavy release

poopvayne | New Jersey | 05/12/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"i saw this cd just sitting in FYE one day so i decided to check it out and i really liked it!it was really heavy and the vocals were really aggressive along with the guitar playing,if you're looking for something really heavy to headbang to or blast in the car then pick up this cd,it's great!By Night are gonna be a band to watch out for soon!"

Metalcore with occasional complex riffs

Murat Batmaz | Istanbul, Turkey | 02/11/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"By Night hails from Sweden and they're a metalcore band that plays relatively more intricate riffs and their songs contain plenty of complex passages, possibly inspired by Swedish gods Meshuggah. By Night's music is no where near as technical though, but still, for a metalcore act, they are fairly interesting.

However, vocalist Adrian Westin can get a bit annoying, as he sings the same way on all the songs with no variation whatsoever. The vocals are totally screamed, neither death growls or the earlier Slayer type of blackened thrash stuff. The best parts are those when Westin isn't singing, since that gives the rest of the guys a chance to play some great riffs and challenging leads. The triggered drumming on "One and the Same" or the Control Denied-type of guitar texture on "Raise Your Voice" would have been a lot more to my liking had they been developed properly. One problem with Burn the Flags is, while each song has some great ideas, none of them are fully realized and the track becomes aimless after a while, no matter how short it is.

Compared to Extol, Meshuggah, Entombed, and even Opeth by their label, I'll have to disagree with this assessment. By Night's music is modern metalcore with very small touches of Swedish death and thrash mixed in, but aside from some of the guitar licks by Andre Gonzales and Simon Wien, they're not too different from most other bands in this genre. Unless they refine their sound and work on their songwriting skills, I don't see them catching too many people's attention."