Track Listing

1. Sympathy Orchestra
2. Hands to Hide the Shame
3. Fever Dream
4. Womb Disease
5. Infidel's Hymn
6. Year One
7. Angel with a Dirty Face
8. Disposably Yours
9. Devil's Ransom
10. Fool's Gold
11. Dust to Dust

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51083 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-18
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

No retrends here
As is the case in many rough scenarios, finding a replacement for your best singer in a band can be tasking. You would think it'd be difficult for a band like Bury Your Dead after Mat Bruso left. Not only does current frontman Myke Terry do the job well, but he adds his own style, even incorporating clean singing into the mix rather than keeping it hardcore through and through. Not saying that Mat wasn't good, Beauty And The Breakdown for me was the best the band had to offer. They once again worked with producer Jason Suecof (Trivium, Chimaira, DevilDriver, God Forbid) to create something that not only embodied the Bury Your Dead sound, but also had surprising elements. Like I said, you get to hear some clean singing here and there, plus Mark Tremonti from Alter Bridge lends a guitar solo to the track Year One, which is a first for the band (having guitar solos, I mean). The album is also the first since You Had Me At Hello to not follow any themes (Cover Your Tracks featured songs named after Tom Cruise films, and Beauty And The Breakdown featured songs named from fairy tales). This isn't Beauty And The Breakdown pt.II...but do I think it's better? I like to think they're on par as equally good albums, it's hard to choose the better of the two. You would just have to check for yourself.

Worthy Attempt
I've always had a soft spot for BYD, so when Beauty and the Breakdown came out, it was bitter sweet-in the sense that they went a new direction so they were willing to break out of the "hardcore" mold, yet kept some of their arsenal like matty b's voice style and lyrical content. Still, this album pretty much was a stamp on the envelope of where their new materiel was going.

As soon as I heard that Bruso departed from BYD, I was bummed-what was to happen to BYD? Then I heard they found a more permanent replacement and they were releasing another album. At this point, it was safe to say that they were going into that "numetal/metalcore" genre. That mixed with the sans-bruso factor, made me a little hesitant to hear the new album.

In the name of trying new things out, and since it was still BYD, I decided to hear em out. I was really scared that they'd stretch the gulf that separates "hardcore" and "numetal" even further to where you wouldn't recognize it was BYD anymore. Luckily, Mark's drumming lets you know it's BYD. Honestly, there weren't many musical differences (other than the obvious Bruso situation) than from Beauty and the Breakdown.

The tracks that stand out to me were the 1st, 5th and 11th track. Come to think of it, the first track REALLY reminded me of Fear Factory, that, coupled with the clean vocals every now and then on the album make that even more apparent, other than the clean vocals though-the guy really sounds like Mat! Track 3's beginning riffs reminded me of a hair metal song that I JUST can't remember-I wanna say a Judas Priest song.

All in all, a good effort, really reminiscent of Beauty and the Breakdown, however some parts of the album were kind of a turn off-for example Track 6. That solo along with the vocals on the track (clean to static) kinda reminded me of Avenged Sevenfold. Yeah, I know change is good, but whats good for some ain't always good for others. And Track 2-which kept reminding me of something that Powerman 5000 (like I said, numetal) would play.

I like BYD for that "in your face" style they brought with "Cover Your Tracks" and "You Had Me at Hello" and even carried over to "Beauty and the Breakdown". The BYD S/T album isn't bad-but it's not their best, either. I still say it's worth a listen, though. I encourage you to try the samples on amazon or even the full tracks on their myspace page, who knows-it might be for you. I applaud them for looking into other directions, I just wish they'd stray from certain "mainstream" elements that older BYD would've kicked in the face!

Well,okay
Since matt left i tought this band was not gonna release any good stuff anymore.But this album sounds pretty good the music is good but im still not sure about the new singer i mean it looks in someway that his forcing his voice to sound hard,he kind of sounds like matt but matt is much better to me he just keeps it hardcore.Yeah and the new singer sings in clean vocals too i think he should just keep the screaming(if he can)is much better for a band like bury your dead.I listen more to their other stuff than this one though,i haven't listen to this one that much mostly just the first song.If you like bury your dead i say you should check this one out but i gotta say that i really don't like the new singer he sucks.But anyway check it out for the music but Beauty and the breakdown is much better than this,is the best they will ever put out.3/6 stars,oh and the cover is frickin cool.