### Eyes Set To Kill: Broken frames

#### 28/07/10 || Altmer

Hello, I am the metalcore plague, and I return to curse and haunt ye all. Actually these guys aren’t the worst metalcore/emo outfit I have ever heard – but the fact they try very hard to be the metal version of Paramore (with a worse female singer) does not make matters very good anyway. I can tell you that despite this being catchy pop-metal with female vocals, none of you will like this shit (and I don’t really like it very much either, but it makes for some ok background music).

The bad parts of this record are mostly that it’s some terribly generic shit, with some awful riffs and predictable choruses. The drum production is especially awful and I don’t understand why those drums are supposed to sound so shitty. It really ruins the momentum of catchy songs if you can’t produce shit. The growler/screamer/whatever is complete fucken shit and annoying since they don’t need him at all – they have a chica singing so they can focus attention on her boobs anyway. The music is only semi-aggressive anyway and the growls add jack shit so why bother with mediocre vocals? Just boot the motherfucker out.

The good part is that the chick can actually sing, even when she does her best Hayley Williams impression (have these guys and gals been listening to too much Paramore?) it doesn’t really annoy me. However, they do have a tendency to sound pop-punkish which will piss many of ye off (and rightly so) and it’s that part that makes me like it a bit because the catchy parts are the good ones; this obviously doesn’t belong in metal at all. The metal sounds half-assed and fake and they are much better off using their chica’s talent to sing pop songs considering that’s obviously what they’re good at and what will make their label money. Just stop pretending that you’re metal, folks, and we’ll talk.

Also, the lyrics are atrocious high-schooler bullshit, but that’s a given and I think you know by now to ignore that kind of stuff anyway. Points are deducted for the fucken shit ballads too.

I don’t think any of us needs to listen to this here at GD, but if you’re 15 and in high school and the next breakup is the discussion at the lunch table over recess then I guess this album is for you. It is not for me, I am past this stage in my musical development and if I really want the pop/rock parts there’s always Paramore (no that band isn’t very good either, but they are catchy and have no metal pretenses).

Recommendation: Focus on the pop/rock parts and develop those, and stop marketing your music to a crowd that it’s obviously not meant for, and we can talk about a better grade. Until then, fuck you.

- Information
- Released: 2010
- Label: Break Silence Records
- Website: www.estkrock.com
- Band
- Alexia Rodriguez: vocals, guitars, more guitars, synth, piano
- Cisko: screamed vocals
- Greg Kerwin: guitars
- Anissa Rodriguez: bass
- Caleb Clifton: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. All You Ever Knew
- 02. Broken Frames
- 03. The Listening
- 04. Ticking Bombs
- 05. Play the Part
- 06. Falling Fast
- 07. Catch Your Breath
- 08. Ryan
- 09. Inside the Eye
- 10. Two Letter Sins
- 11. Escape
- 12. Let Me In