Pleasant surprise is one of the best emotions you can feel. Pleasant surprise is the perfect way to describe Whitechapel's new record A New Era Of Corruption. Upon the announcement of this record I was pretty excited. I really dug their last release "This Is Exile" but when they released the first single "The Darkest Day Of Man" my excitement for the new record went down a lot. Thankfully "The Darkest Day Of Man" is the lowlight of the album and there is a lot of songs on here that more than make up for it.
Whitechapel has always gotten a lot of shit from the death-metal purists because of their breakdown-heavy brand of deathcore. Whitechapel comes out and proves their harshest critics wrong with the album's opening one-two punch "Devolver" and "Breeding Violence". These tracks have great heavy riffs and blistering solos that will catch a lot people by surprise. Actually their is a lot on this record that caught be by surprise. Some songs ("Single File To Dehumanization","Prayer Of Mockery","Necromechanical") don't even sound like Whitechapel at all. I never excepted piano,accoustic guitar and even industrial-metal style riffing on a Whitechapel record. Sure there are still breakdowns,blast beats and Phil Bozeman's trademark bark but Whitechapel experimented with things and showed they do have range and aren't just another one-dimesional,boring deathcore band.
I have to give Whitechapel props for this record. There is a bunch of things I never thought I would hear on Whitechapel record. Whitechapel is a deathcore band that is very near the top in terms of quailty in the genre and deserve some respect from the purists.
4/5 Stars
Standout Tracks
1.Single File To Dehumanization
2.Reprogrammed To Hate
3.Prayer Of Mockery
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