A Sure Disaster
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SeeYouSpaceCowboy were releasing a split EP with
If I Die First, my heart sank. Because while I love the former to death, finding them to be one of the new metalcore greats, I simply cannot stand the latter.
SeeYouSpaceCowboy represents the stronger side of the 2000’s metalcore revival wave crashing over lately with their solid label debut and fantastic debut full-length in 2019. Whereas to me,
If I Die First represented the weakest kind of nasally, whiny emo-post-hardcore resurgence also taking root nowadays with their woeful 2020 EP, ‘
My Poison Arms.’ Outside of really appreciating hearing more of guitarist and screamer
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Last month, SeeYouSpaceCowboy and If I Die First announced their upcoming split,
A Sure Disaster, by releasing the project s collaborative centerpiece, the wonderfully chaotic bloodstainedeyes and its splat-tastic music video. Now, SYSC are giving us a taste of one of their solo songs from the five-track project, and it s a writhing, shape-shifting stomper called Painting a Clear Picture From a Unreliable Narrator.
After kicking off with some delightful hand claps, the San Diego metalcore juggernauts blend their signature sasscore with a soaring clean chorus, grindy blast beats and a couple chuggy breakdowns. The band have made enormous sonic leaps since their early days as a mathy screamo group, and after dipping their toes in early 2000s metalcore (think Poison the Well, From Autumn to Ashes) on their 2019 debut