back from the dead. this applies to emmure as well as to my humble self. i have a bunch of new records waiting to be blogged about and emmure has this new record out. "look at yourself" is the title of the seventh full length and is most likely to be understood as a potshot at frankie palmeri's former band collegues. i don't know why he fell out with them and i am not too interested in checking out internet rumours but i do understand that he is quite a complicated personality not easy to get along with.
anyway, he is back on track with a new emmure line-up and musically he is a very prolific and gifted artist. together with ex-tony tap dance extravaganza guitarist joshua travis, he wrote this new album and it is absolutely emmure with some fresh approaches to their trademark sound. the new element is the use of nine-string guitars with the outcome of the material getting a bit of a mathcore tinge to it. i love it. intense, exciting and heavy all the way through.
check out "iceman confessions" and "call me ninib", my favourites of this bad boy. for the new album the band left victory records, therefore "look at yourself" is the first emmure full length to appear on a different label. the band teamed up with sharp tone records. the label focuses on modern metal bands and is a recently founded division of nuclear blast records. i pre-ordered the european version through the nuclear blast shop. the u.s. version on red and white merge vinyl looks better but the white vinyl is absolutely in keeping with the minimalistic artwork. looks nice all around. 1000 copies made. sharp tone records. nuclear blast. 2017.
