Reviews

"Jesus Loves You" is the headline on Here I Come Falling's MySpace page. But get the idea of the bible-toting, creationist loving, Redneck out of your head for a second because this six-piece hardcore act from Springfield, MO is not preaching to the hardcore choir. On their first full length album, Oh Grave, Where is Thy Victory, Here I Come Falling deliver jarring blends of metal growls, furious shouting and melodic vocals that soar consistently through the 10 tracks. And I'm sure Jesus would approve too.

This album is layered with a thick, fierce sound and furiousness that accompanies a powerful message, which just happens to be based on spiritual warfare and resisting everyday temptations. Every track is a concoction of powerful metal riffs, livid drum beats and injections of screams and howls all mixed into a hardcore, metal epic album drink.

The opening track, "Put the City to the Sword," showcases the mainstream hardcore side of the band. You think you're listening to an UnderOath track until the metal bruteness of the lyrics sets in. Vocalist Colby Moore is a screaming fury and his fervor never lets up. "A Ghost Town for a Graveyard" is another powerful track that blends electric undertones and snappy guitar work with a fractured chorus interlaced through metallic groans and melodic singing.

"A Pale Horse and Its Rider" starts off full force with metal dripped vocals and drum beats and gives listeners a complementing blend of earth shattering screaming and a more calming vocal. The track fades out into a dissonant hum of drum beats and synthetic guitar which leads into the instrumental track, "The Birds in the Sky, the Fish in the Sea."

Oh Grave, Where Is Thy Victory is worthy of multiple listens, but not all at once because the sound gets repetitive. The songwriting is pretty impressive for being so omniscient but could do with a small dose of more creativity.

The layered synths and hard hitting breakdowns paired with frantic drumming and impressive guitars helps to create a new sound for a band that could be another carbon cut out Christian screamo act.