Here Lies A Warning - Keep Your Head Above The Water [EP]

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October 6, 2009, 09:35 PM

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Young Fife metalcore kids, Here Lies A Warning grace us with their debut EP, "Keep Your Head Under The Water." Here you have 5 tracks of screams and scowls, beatdowns, hardcore chants and a slow chilled instrumental song with lashings of guitar and reverb. The problem with whole thing is that it all falls in to a cookie cutter format with all the various elements required to be a metalcore band. The problem is that not a lot of the elements are executed overly well. For a local band I’m sure these guys do well on their local circuit, but Here Lies A Warning will not stand up amongst the massively crowded sea of young bands. So very ironically I can’t see Here Lies A Warning keeping their heads above the water in the sea of bands doing this sort of thing.

Another item that lets the EP down is the production. Everything has been cracked and compressed to the max and the drums sound so edited. The volumes have been so cranked that at times its almost clipping and it really sounds bad. It’s hard because I know these guys are young but there are bands that are sixteen years old on the scene doing massively professional jobs and creating some great music. So yes Here Lies a Warning is not bad for a young band but "Keep Your Head Above The Water" is so badly produced and incredibly clichéd. So unfortunately this is not going to be the break through release that Here Lies A Warning probably hoped it would be.

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