As I Lay Dying | American Tragedy

A Split with two of California's best metalcore bands, starting is As I Lay Dying with their five tracks of fast and brutal metalcore with a melodic edge. They play really heavy and devastating Hardcore with brutal mosh and death metal riffs, and sometimes they add melodic riffings to this.

As I Lay Dying play in the same league with bands like Zao. This band really kicks ass and this is heavy as fuck, with a singer who is screaming at the top of his lungs. On their last song "Forever" they throw in clean vocals as well. Good stuff!

The second band is American Tragedy with six songs, their attack is introduced by a track with weird voices and noises and what follows is even more brutal than As I Lay Dying's songs.

These guys mosh you down with pure aggression and precise playing with a lot of overrunning passages and evil breakdowns. But American Tragedy offers even more because their second track begins with melodic guitars (Shai Hulud-like) and clean-singing choirs and after almost one minute they start again with these heavy mosh parts.

This inter-changing becomes the special thing about them because they switch over and over again between brutal and harmonic parts and it's the same with the singer because he changes as well between screamed and sang vocals.

My absolutely favourite is "Porcelain Angels" because besides mosh riffs and screaming, one guitarist plays this sick recurring melodic riff. They are like a more brutal version of Shai Hulud! Awesome split!