★★★★★
After The Burial - Wolves Within
"ATB have found a collective cutting edge that's both extreme and versatile..."
Posted Monday, 6 January 2014 in ,
Rating: 8 Brimming with immense chaos and complexity, the three-year wait for After The Burial's fourth full-length is answered emphatically with 'Wolves Within'...
- www.rocksound.tv
2014-01-31
★★★★★
For some, progressive metal will always be a genre defined by its sprawling song structures and classical fusion. However, there comes a time when one has to wonder: if progressive metal never changes, is it still progressive? Looking to answer that question is After the Burial, who take some of the genre's lofty ideas and put them through an extreme metal filter on their fourth album, Wolves Within...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-03-01
★★★★★
Sound: Earlier this year, After The Burial began recording a new album after releasing their "This Life Is All We Have" EP. Their new album is being released on Sumerian Records, the same as their last 3 releases, and contains 9 tracks. The album has a total runtime just a few minutes shy of 40 minutes. In early November, the first "single" was released from the album, "A Wolf Amongst Ravens," via YouTube. This was soon followed by the second "single," "Of Fearful Men...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2013-12-22
★★★★★
's problems can be summed up in its first 15 seconds: an unnecessary, self-indulgent drum fill that overstays its welcome. This dilemma is indicative of a much larger one -- After the Burial's lack of focus. Sure, there are more awesome parts on than you can shake a (drum) stick at, but so too are there plenty of misplaced ones. The band's tendency to place a fretboard-abusing, melodic run next to a groove -- or at times on top of one another -- is both positive and problematic...
- exclaim.ca
2013-12-14
★★★★★
Sound: The self proclaimed Twin Cities Breakdown Architects are at it again with the release of Rareform. But don't let the tagline fool you, these guys write melodies and solos like you read about. This album has some true gems that will blow you away. "Cursing Akhenaten" is the song which I truly believe should have been the intro to the album, but I can let that go...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Amazon.com WidgetsAfter The Burial for the most part keeps their same progressive / technical metal sound from Rareform, but I can definitely say that there is a ton of improvement musically on their latest Sumerian Records release, In Dreams. The band has creatively found ways to expand their brutality thinking both Meshuggah-esque riffing and Sumeriancore breakdowns...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
When Swedish overlords of the technical-metal genre Meshuggah graduated to eight-string guitars, it was only a matter of time before those in their wake followed suit, regardless of whether they had the chops for such a beast of an instrument. Gratifyingly, Justin Lowe and Trent Hafdahl of Minnesota's After The Burial certainly know how to wrench an ungodly racket out of them, and the band's third full-length wields some damn fine reasons to torture your ears...
- www.altpress.com
2010-12-20
★★★★★
Roy Orbison must be rolling in his grave. At the tail end of what is proving to be a very disappointing year for metalcore, the once promising After the Burial have all but thrown the towel in with this uninspired parade of mediocrity...
- www.exclaim.ca
2010-12-06
★★★★★
Sound: The album opens up with a peaceful classical acoustic piece, which upon completion, fades out and transitions into the mind boggling breakdown known as Pi. While guitarists might not think much of the repetitive chugging of open strings, drummers will be able to appreciate the intricacy of the drumming, which is centered around the mathematical constant Pi. Google this, it's interesting. Drum beats like this are found all over the album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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