An Ocean Between Us

As I Lay Dying has proved countless times that they can rock. Sporting a unique and brutal sound, the San Diego natives release an album that is one for the ages. This isn't your typical metalcore album. This is an As I Lay Dying album which means it's something special. All around phenomenal musicianship shows. From the guitar, to the drums, to the singing, to even the bass (not flaming bass players, I am one myself) As I Lay Dying proves worthy of many listens and is at the top of my playlist. I hope AILD will put out more records soon.

This is yet another wonderful by a wonderful band. Lyrics are good, singing is classic, and the playing is very talented.

At the beginning I only liked "Forseken", then I kept listening and I realized that I completely love "Nothing Left" especially the way it comes right after "Separation". The guitar at the end of "Separation" is amazing and "I Never Wanted" is, without a doubt, a masterpiece... Best album I bought in the last year or so.

I could care less if a band is Christain or Satanic. I am just a massive fan of music. Yet it seems like you can not go wrong with buying most Christain bands CD's.
If you like Shadows Fall..All that Remains...I would recommend this.

The music on this album is fantastic. In my review on As Blood Runs Black I said: "Some artists are such amazing musicians that they can screw originality and they can play other people's original ideas twice as well as the original artist. This is what As Blood Runs Blacks does for the first 4 songs." This is basically what As I Lay does, except for the entire frickin' album! There isn't a song on the entire album that I don't like. I felt the same thing about August Burns Red. Both albums are amazing at keeping my interest for the entire album. Their lyrics are also very good. So, with all the praise i have given As I Lay Dying, what is wrong with this album?? My problem is that you can not figure out what in the world Tim Lambesis is saying. What the vocalists say is very important to me, and it frustrates me i can only understand the singer. The cool thing about August Burns Red is you can understand most of lyrics, and even if you can't there is no way you can't understand what he's screaming during breakdowns, which happens probably two times a song.

So, it's an excellent album. Music good. Musicianship good. Percussionist good. It all adds up to 10/10 music. But the screamer kind of dropped my opinion of the album to 4 stars out of 5 stars. Lambesis does have a good scream and excellent tone, but his enunciation is terrible, what he says means absolutely nothing to me because I can't understand what he is saying.

But, all in all, if you like Metalcore this CD is a must have for your collection.