DEAD
TO FALL
EVERYTHING I TOUCH FALLS TO PIECES
VICTORY
Everything
I Touch Falls To Pieces
includes the two distinguishable assaulting guitar sounds of Bryan Lear
and original guitarist Antone Jones, an echoing bass line by Justin Jakimiak,
the hard hitting drums and frantic double bass of the recently departed
Dan Craig, and the growling vocals of Jonathan Hunt--they will leave you
in pieces.
Dead to Fall recorded with Barry Poynter, who produced influential artists such as Zao, Living Sacrifice, and Embodyment. What came out was a sick, kick in the ass album of songs including “The Eternal Gates of Hell”, “Like a Bullet”, and “Preying On The Helpless”. This eleven-track release starts with an instrumental, yet still heavy, one-minute prologue that lets you know just who Dead to Fall is. It goes right into “Memory” with a chorus comparable to something At The Gates could have come up with. Next, you find yourself at “The Eternal Gates Of Hell” beginning with a riff that displays the trademark searing guitar sounds reminiscent of In Flames. Track five, “Graven Image”, originally debuted on Victory Style 5, generated a lot of buzz and was even singled out as the stand out track on that CD. The band brings it down a few notches--actually a lot more than a few –with the acoustic instrumental “Doraematu” which really doesn’t fit the rest of the album, but that can almost be forgiven because it’s so beautiful. “Preying on the Helpless” is a lyrically pissed off outburst about child abuse and molestation.
Everything I Touch Falls To Pieces is a noteworthy attempt for newcomers Dead To Fall, but at times there’s a lack of dynamic flair. I can only hear so much of the drop B sound before my attention deficit disorder distracts me.
Dead to Fall recorded with Barry Poynter, who produced influential artists such as Zao, Living Sacrifice, and Embodyment. What came out was a sick, kick in the ass album of songs including “The Eternal Gates of Hell”, “Like a Bullet”, and “Preying On The Helpless”. This eleven-track release starts with an instrumental, yet still heavy, one-minute prologue that lets you know just who Dead to Fall is. It goes right into “Memory” with a chorus comparable to something At The Gates could have come up with. Next, you find yourself at “The Eternal Gates Of Hell” beginning with a riff that displays the trademark searing guitar sounds reminiscent of In Flames. Track five, “Graven Image”, originally debuted on Victory Style 5, generated a lot of buzz and was even singled out as the stand out track on that CD. The band brings it down a few notches--actually a lot more than a few –with the acoustic instrumental “Doraematu” which really doesn’t fit the rest of the album, but that can almost be forgiven because it’s so beautiful. “Preying on the Helpless” is a lyrically pissed off outburst about child abuse and molestation.
Everything I Touch Falls To Pieces is a noteworthy attempt for newcomers Dead To Fall, but at times there’s a lack of dynamic flair. I can only hear so much of the drop B sound before my attention deficit disorder distracts me.
----Amy Bronson