Track Listing

1. Nature of the Beast
2. True Friends Stab You in the Front
3. With a Gunsmoke Kiss
4. Misery with a Delicate Voice
5. Option for the Lonely
6. Belle of the Ball
7. It All Ends with a Smile
8. I'll Call This My Own
9. Respect for the Dead
10. Another Day
11. Pursuit of ???

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171379 in Music
• Released on: 2008-06-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

Solid follow-up
Though I was impressed with thier debut, What Demons Do to Saints, some of the songs from that album got redundant and a bit annoying. I still listen to 'Goodfellas' and '7861' rather often, but the rest seems filler in retrospect. Enter, 'The Day the Music Died'.

Hopefully the album title is not a premonition of things to come, because this band is unique and holds its own place in my vast music collection. Beneath the Sky have shown improvement with this album.

The low death growls are more prevalent, as are the clean vocals, while the rasping shrieks are less noticeable, but still there. I wasn't sure about thier sophomore effort after what my earliest impression of WDDTS entailed, and the cover art didn't really grab my attention at the record store and reel me in. It looks too zombie movie-esque, more along the lines of what you might see on a Rob Zombie cover.

Sadly, I almost skipped songs halfway through the opening moments of 'Nature of the Beast', but I am glad I did not. That part was annoying, but the song soon launches itself into a brutal string of beats and melodies. If that song wasn't great, 'True Friends Stab You in the Front' was even better, and 'With a Gunsmoke Kiss' better still. By this time I was throughly impressed. It would have garnered above a 4.6 star rating if all songs were created equal. Sadly, there are still a few uninteresting filler tracks.

Still, 'The Day the Music Died' is a solid follow-up and a decent effort. Beneath the Sky's own brand of "brutal death metal core" pumps out a touch more energy in this album. It is worth a listen.

Beneath the Sky's 'The Day the Music Died' gets 4.3/5 stars.

Beneath The Sky - The Day The Music Died
Let me start by saying, What Demons Do To Saints is an amazing CD. And secondly, so is this one... Both are a must have for the true metal fan! This band is simply vicious...

A Step Up From WDDTS
I didn't expect much out of this album after glancing over the cover art. A very different tone than What Demons Do To Saints gave off. After the first four tracks I was pleased and I thought that this album was really going to blow me away. Unfortunately, after those tracks, I got bored. I realized that it was exactly blooming with originality but besides that, the songs were just poorly written.

The vocals on this album seem a tad more polished than on WDDTS and I was happy he didn't hit his highs as often because, although it's impressive, it gets annoying to hear it for the entire song. His screams are much more bearable.

The "epic" song on the album 'The Belle of the Ball' is absolutely terrible. It's BORING. There aren't any catchy hooks in it or driving breakdowns. It's just a really bad song. That song really marks the string of bad songs leading up to The Pursuit Of ??? which is actually a good song. So I guess to sum it up, 5 out of the 11 tracks are decent. The rest is crap.

A step above WDDTS but still it isn't great. Nature of the Beast is probably the best track and it's worth a listen. The first four tracks are pretty good. I wouldn't waste my time on anything else barring The Pursuit Of ???.