My first encounter with The Autumn Offering was their 2007 album "Fear Will Cast No Shadow" which made me check out their previous release, 2006's "Embrace The Gutter," which to this day, I enjoy the most for the band, for it's raw, brutal, yet melodic energy.
It's not like the band focuses on delivering a different formula, but they have certainly drifted from their core sound at a decent pace. The band is about to release their 5th studio album on August 31st via Victory Records, for which the band released a new video for the song "Born Dead."
Labeled as the band's heaviest work to date, the self titled new album is certainly a darker release by these Metalcore vets. But are they crossing the border on being too Hot Topic Metal?
The video features horror movie star Deneen Melody, who portrays the victim in a bloody flick perfectly. With the cliche story of pretty girl in a mental institute being chased down by insane doctors, that want to poke their needle in her ... 0_0
Metalcore band The Autumn Offering will be releasing their self titled new album on August 31st via Victory Recrods.
The band is currently streaming a new track from the album titled, "Born Dead" which is available on the band's Myspace page. TAO have also posted a 7 minute preview clip that includes samples from the entire release.
It's very apparent that this will be the band's heaviest album, claiming "it's most crushing release to date" and is "chock-full of blast beats and twin guitar wizardry" while "vocalist Matt McChesney sounds as if he is being burned at the stake," and yes, judging by the preview clip below, it does sound very "br00tal."
The Autumn Offering have just announced plans to release their new self-titled album on August 31st through Victory Records.
Vocalist Matt McChesney had the following to say:
"I always thought we were unfairly lumped in with the 'metalcore' bands. I always thought we did much more musically and were a bit more sophisticated than your typical good-cop/bad-cop band. It takes balls to admit this, but yeah, we wrote a few songs that were mistakes.
We made a push, half heartedly, for the mainstream. Yet I feel like a few bad choices don't taint two albums that I love dearly. There were a million reasons to make a record like this. Also, sensing the death of that genre of metal, it made no sense to make a record that resembled it. I think we came out of it all, integrity intact."
My first encounter with The Autumn Offering was their 2007 album "Fear Will Cast No Shadow" which made me check out their previous release, 2006's "Embrace The Gutter," which to this day, I enjoy the most for the band, for it's raw, brutal, yet melodic energy.
