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| Album Rating: A- |
Emotional hardcore, as a genre, has seen its fair share of ups and downs these past five or so years. Like many scenes of music, stagnation occurs when there really is no incentive for experimentation. Added to that, there has even been a complete misunderstanding of the term
emo, as anything with screamed vocals or emotional lyrics gets jumbled into the catch-all terminology. But I digress. Xerxes, as a band, make one care little about silly, misused tags that only distract from the music at hand. There isn't a lot of progression in the scene? Who cares. Xerxes certainly don't, as their latest release
Our Home is a Deathbed sees the band making exceptional music on their own terms.
