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Blessed By A Broken Heart
All Is Fair In Love and War
Blood & Ink CD
"As you watch with grinding teeth and witness the end of man / Know it's not too late to fall to your knees and ask for mercy / As you cry out OH MY GOD!"* No way dude, not this individual.
Quebec's Blessed By A Broken Heart's attempt at moshy metallic hardcore is unfortunately irritating, boring, and devoid of any gripping originality. Not to say these young whippersnappers can play their instruments with anguished emotions, but the one element of the outfit's sound that makes me turn the volume way down is the horrendous vocals. Throaty and muffled, it sounds like the singer is trying to belt out a deep guttural delivery with a mouth full of cotton gauze. Even the 80s styled high-pitched wailing towards the end of "That Knife Ain't For Butter" had me cringing. Seriously, it just makes you wonder.
With three guitarists, I wish there was more playfulness and originality going on. I think my dislike for these Canucks climaxed during the goofy and absurd "Mic Skillz." It eventually starts to fall apart when these huge breakdowns are infected by a reciting of the alphabet: "A, B, C, D, E, F, G,." Thanks, but no thanks. The real Cookie Monster helped me learn those back when I was two.
The one track that had some nice potency was "Somekind of Wonderful," but the vomiting bellows and annoying clicking bass drum thwacks distracted way too much. There's some cool female vocals intermixed along with some nice driving melodic segments, and even the last few tunes that finish off All Is Fair contains some great potential ("OMG!" and "Courting Mary") but it's just not enough to win this old hardcore fan over.
Yeah, I'm definitely not feeling this. In my best Rob Halford-like operatic wailing, "No Thanks!"
by Fake Train
*Taken from "OMG!"
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