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album cover BROKEN PROMISES Dying Before The First Step (Good Life) cd 13.98
We first reviewed this killer slab of tranced out metalcore way back in 2001, and were just doing some cleaning up and found THREE copies, last copies ever we presume, here's our review from a decade ago:
This is one of the coolest, weirdest takes on the metalcore sound we've heard. Broken Promises are from Belgium, and their sound is equal parts full on metalcore mayhem, and dynamic restraint (read: space). The first song is epic, with a repeating, muted guitar chug, that goes on way longer than you would possibly expect, straining to explode, but kept on a tight, repetitive (almost droning) leash, with plenty of space and only the occasional full band blast. Like a stripped down, deconstructed black metal band, whose songs slowly build into crushing riffs backed by relentless, martial rhythms. We imagine that Broken Promises is really into that one part from Metallica's song 'One' (the 'I can not see, I can not hear...' part with the staccato machine-gun-like double kick), 'cause this is like they've turned that into a whole record, where the band lurches, and stops, lurches, and stops. An endless array of insane dynamics and starts and stops, but spread out to give each instrument almost too much room to breathe. Really great.
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