Whitechapel – This Is Exile

I don’t know why but I was expecting Whitechapel to sound like a Black Sabbath clone. Instead “This Is Exile” is filled with the kind of uplifting tunes that are usually reserved for a black mass.

Triple guitar assault, dual vocal attack, brutal beatdown sections and a big fat groove… these Tennessee boys have got it all going on on album number two. Normally if a band takes a little grindcore, death metal and hardcore and throws it all together, I can’t be bothered for more than two songs. Especially if they use cookie monster vocals which are funny as hell rather than awe-inspiring. But there’s something about Whitechapel that kept me interested. They are extremely brutal but it’s not just one heavy part stringed to another. They’ve written actual songs and that pretty much makes all the difference in the world.

Whitechapel might be a name that doesn’t fit the bill and the cookie monster vocals are still ridiculous, but I can tell you that “This Is Exile” is one deathcore album I can actually endorse!
Score: 6.5 out of 10
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