Overview:

Great Japanese melodic hardcore with just the right amount of lightly metallic smatterings and energetic bursts of speed. The vocals are midrange screams with some gang backup shouts at times, and the songwriting combines a lot of guitar layering with heavier rhythms and octave chords or slightly dissonant runs ala a more straightforward Shai Hulud meets slightly more involved traditional hardcore with a little heavy emo or something. "New Greed" kicks in after a brief noisescape intro with lots of speedy chord progressions and a good dose of liveliness, "Change Sorrow Into Rage" picks up the pace and throws around some excellent discordant arpeggios, and "Watching the Sky" opens with a killer bass run before going into some of the more angular chord phrasings and arrangements of the disc Ð granted things are still focused and very tangible. Meanwhile "Forever" starts out a little slower and has some chunkier rhythm playing that still maintains a melodic undercurrent and definitely pops out from the other songs.