Some Call This Tragedy - No Man Without a Ghost (2012)

Being completely opposed to Metalcore shit, we find ourselves in a dilemma while listening to Some Call This Tragedy’s debut EP “No Man Without a Ghost”. On the one hand we despise Metalcore vocals and their formulaic approach to music, however we have recently been listening to bands that somehow manage to add some value to such horrible music, and thus we actually enjoy their music. This is the problem when listening to this EP, we love some of the melodic music that the band delivers, but here come the screams and we totally lose our musica boner.

In this three song EP, “Burning Parts” delivers powerful riffing and excellent melodic passages. The clean vocals make this song very epic and create a very unique atmosphere, not traditional of typical American mallcore shit. In this track all is fine until the shitty screams come in and totally destroy the flow of the song, just like if we put a happy face sticker on a masterpiece like the Mona Lisa, preposterous.

“Watershed” is a more traditional Metalcore track that shows the band’s desire to fit into the scene by making some vanilla music. There are some cool guitar solos and melodic passages, but the track ends up being too vanilla for our own taste. “The Last Fantasy” grabbed our attention for the first few seconds of the tracks thanks to its intro, but the band goes back to their repetitive screams and copycat riffs. It is sad that some nice melodic sections and a catchy chorus part were wasted on this track.

Overall, Some Call This Tragedy still has plenty of ground to cover to be even close to being original and innovative. There are very few decent elements in this release that are probably not enough to save it from non-Metalcore music fans. If you like all your music to sound the same and have a huge collection of CD’s from bands heavily promoted by Hot Topic and such places, then be sure to get this album and keep listening to bad music.

Release: 2012

Genre: Metalcore

Country: Finland