Blessthefall - Gallows (2025) [FLAC] {Rise Records 557}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2025/09/06 RTLDATE: 2025/09/05
GENRE: Metalcore FORMAT: 309 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 34:12
RiPPER: EAC 1.8 ENCODER: FLAC 1.5
DRiVE: ASUS SW-16D1X-U ORiGiN: US
RELEASE: Rise Records 557
MATRiX: I58609605/9641564421 21
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Kerrang (dot) com adds. . .
In the seven years since Blessthefall's last record, 2018's solid
but unspectacular Hard Feelings, the U..S has had three
presidents - although, sadly, two of them were that same guy.
With the lengthy period of reflection the pandemic provided, and
a pretty sizeable run up for album number seven, there was little
holding the Arizona unit back from giving this their best shot -
which it needs to be, as it's been a decade since they issued
something truly noteworthy (2015's To Those Left Behind).
It's a shame to saddle Blessthefall with that kind of
expectation, though, because only something truly excellent or
innovative is going to provide a reintroduction that really makes
an impact. The good news is: those ingredients are in there. The
bad news is: it takes far too long to get to them.
The first half of Gallows is what we've come to expect from Beau
Bokan and co., meticulously constructed metalcore with varying
degrees of effectiveness - from the workmanlike (mallxcore, Wake
The Dead) to the promising (Somebody Else, Drag Me Under,
featuring Alpha Wolf vocalist Lochie Keogh). So far, so similar.
The title-track, however, heralds something of a gear shift. It's
not some drastic about-face, mind, but a recalibration - more
refined, more relentless, sharper in its execution. Not all of
the songs that make up Gallows' latter half are stylistically as
hard and heavy as that, but they possess a similarly devil-may-
care attitude, as if the the band have suddenly shaken off the
pressure of what people want them to be and just gone for it. As
a result, one could easily imagine this record that was written
and recorded chronologically.
What you get, then, is a raft of breezy epics in Light The Flame,
Fell So Hard, Felt So Right - featuring Story Of The Year
vocalist Dan Marsala - and Y.S.A.B., before This Ends With Us
closes things on a crushing note.
Gallows is an album of two halves. Fifty per cent is familiar to
a fault, 50 per cent is fresh. You just can’t help wishing there
was more of the latter.
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