INTO ETERNITY

Into Eternity is the self titled debut album from Canadian technical metalcore band Into Eternity. My introduction to Into Eternity was through their second and third album Dead or Dreaming and Buried in Oblivion. Into Eternity is a band that will dazzle a lot of people on initial listening as their music sounds deceivingly catchy and intriguingly technical. After a while you come to realise that the songs aren´t really that catchy and that the technical parts are not that intriguing though. This debut album from Into Eternity might be the best ( worst) example I know, of a thin musical shell that upon the slightest touch will burst and leave you soiled with goo.

The music has elements from different metal genres like Thrash metal, melodic metal and death metal. The death metal part is mostly due to the growling vocals which occasionally appear. The music is very melodic with a lot of clean sung choruses. The music isn´t technical in a tech metal sense, so don´t expect too many jawdropping exercises on this album. There are also some acoustic semi ballad playing in songs like A Frozen Escape and the title track. As such Tim Roth who handles the lead vocals have a pretty good voice but the melody lines even though they are very melodic are not memorable at all. Almost every song on the album sounds exactly the same and I can´t remember any of them after listening to the album many times. This album is something of a paradox. Extremely melodic yet not memorable at all. The clean vocals that on initial listen sounds very good also annoy the hell out of me. I can´t stand them now. They are way to nice and not edgy enough for me. It doesn´t help to have a good singer when the parts he sings are so generic and at times downright embarresing. It has to be mentioned here that the growling vocals are very badly done too. They sound so weak. God damn it! if you mean it please sing it like you do.

The musicianship is as such allright. The playing is faultless but not very inspired.

The production is really bad and of course a bad sound quality doesn´t help music that is already weak. it´s especially the guitar sound that I dislike.

The cover is pretty nice and signals pretty well what the music is like.

It´s very rarely that I give albums 1 star but this album contains the kind of metal music that gives metal a bad name IMO. In my world that´s a mortal sin and Into Eternity will pay for their deeds with this 1 star rating. You have probably guessed it by now but I will recommend that you don´t waste your time or money on this album. If you´re curious about Into Eternity listen to some of their later albums instead. It´s about the same style but the sound is better and there are more memorable moments on those albums. This album should only be purchased if you like suckery metalcore that has absolutely nothing to say and are not innovative in anyway possible.It´s really no wonder why this album was self-financed the first time it was released.