### Confined Within: Ashes of a fallen kingdom

#### 27/04/11 || Khlysty

Confined Within comes from England and plays, ehm, metalcore. And, since last night, I’m suffering from gastroenteritis: I won’t tire you with the details, all I wanna point out is that my organism is pretty fucked up and, thus, my tolerance for bullshit –already pretty low- has gone down a coupla notches. So, this is going to be short and to the point.

I don’t like metalcore or emocore or whateverthefuckcore this sorry excuse for music is supposedly called these days. I don’t like the hyper-compressed production job. I don’t like the vocals, which alternate between a constipated growl and lame cleans. I don’t like the riffs. I don’t like the piercing quality of the guitar tone. I don’t like the way the drummer uses his rolls, or the fact that the drums sound clearly triggered. I don’t like the fact that I cannot hear the bass.

I don’t like the useless acoustic intro, or the other instrumental track (if you guys wanna write instrumentals, at least make full compositions and not just a few seconds of music). I don’t like the occasional breakdowns. I don’t like the fact that a lot of kids would latch onto this kind music, ignoring other, much more important records that require a bit more of attention and exertion from the part of the listener.

I just don’t like Confined Within (also, now that I mention it, I don’t even like the band moniker…) and I don’t like the music they play. And, so should you…

- Information
- Released: 2011
- Label: Rising Records
- Website: Confined Within MySpace
- Band
- Tom Ashton: vocals
- Matt Munro: guitar, vocals
- Jay Kay: guitar
- Joe Mayer: bass
- Benji Tatlock: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Intro
- 02. We the Kings
- 03. Forgotten
- 04. Demons
- 05. Lullaby
- 06. Abandoned
- 07. When the World Stops Turning
- 08. Miles Away
- 09. Beginnings
- 10. An Underlying Past
- 11. Chasing Ghosts
- 12. Memories of You