Description

Although metalcore is usually thought of as being native to the malls and skate parks of suburban America, its reach has turned global: witness Johnny Truant, a quintet of kids from the seaside resort town of Brighton, England, the United Kingdom's answer to Atlantic City. Originally called Severance, the band quickly renamed themselves after the main character in Mark Z. Danielewski's 2000 novel House of Leaves, a screamingly pretentious avant-garde gloss on H.P. Lovecraft-style macabre fantasy. Their third album ‘No Tears For The Creatures’ was released in 2008. At first it seems like its an album were Johnny Trueant tries to push the metalcore genre forward while still being true to their roots. On the other hand you can also say that they unapologetically steal as many ideas as they can from [Botch/Coalesce/Cave In]'s playbook. As a result, the album is almost entirely composed of chugging, discordant riffs, complex rhythmic patterns and more deedle-deedle riffing than beards at a Baroness show. Johnny Truant has also truly hit their stride and taking a more honest and introspective lyrical approach for this album so in the end, ‘No Tears for the Creatures’ is a predominantly roiling, chaotic metal-inflected hardcore album from Englands biggest band in the genre Track listing: 1. The Grotesque 2. Death Rides 3. Last Arms Of The Apocalypse 4. Widower 5. Crush And Devour 6. In Alcoholica 7. Dead Ships Sinking 8. Sunshine Diver 9. Fog Lights 10. The Weeping, Wailing and Gnashing Of Teeth