Liste des groupes Death Mélodique The Way Of Purity Crosscore

Back in November 2009, I did volunteer to review a release of a band named Ethereal Blue. As the months passed and there was still no package in the mailbox, I informed General Skinless that we ought to close down this request.

Well, as they say in Italy, qui va piano va sano! July 2010 and I got the said CD in my mailbox along with two others from Worm Hole Death Productions. Against my better judgment, I have now decided to review one of them: The Way of Purity’s Crosscore.

I must say that the suffix –core at the very end of the title gave me some shivers. Now that I’ve played this quite a few times I have very mixed feelings about it.

First you may forget the genre in which it was categorized on Spirit of Metal. This is no Brutal Black Death Metal but rather some musical mixture of Deathcore with a few Industrial hints and quite a nice share of “Pop Music".

The Way of Purity hail from Italy and have released their debut, Crosscore, from out of the blue. No demos, no promos, no EPs, but directly onto a full-length. For many, including myself, this may sound as if the guys are going too fast and that the absence of the demo/promo stage necessary most times to hone skills and sound will show in the actual recording.

I guess the answer to this concern is yes and no. No, because the production is crystal clear almost too synthetic but it suits well their Industrial tendencies. Again, I don't think we’re dealing here with “young” musicians because the musicianship is rather good but considering they’ve chosen to have xnicknamesx and wear masks to somehow hide their identity, I wouldn't be able to tell you if they've ever played in other bands.

Yes too because the tracks show too great a variety for me. Some tracks have definitely that Deathcore edge with many breakdowns and varied time signatures while others are more pop’ish with clean female vocals that reminded me, not without some smile, of bands like Evanescence.

All in all, you get a CD with some good moments but the lyrics are rather bland and feel like they’ve been written by teenagers for teenagers. If you also consider the fact that the music goes only extreme at certain moments, most likely to make 12 year-olds bang their heads so their parents can get mad at them, but that overall it's rather "pop music" with a "Metal" treatment, I have high doubts about where these guys/girls aim at.

Obviously, as previously mentioned, nicknames and masks turn this into a big farce and make the better moments of Crosscore not as memorable as they ought to be. I definitely feel this music would have had some appeal to me when I was 14 years old but now that I'm (a bit... haha) older, such "show off" music has lost all the glamour it had back then.

Obviously, there's a good chance the kids will love it because it's not too demanding a music and the folklore around it make it very much “high school rebel scenester” but for older guys like me this is just average and definitely not the first CD you'd pick up from the shelves to play in your CD player.