{"id":18474,"date":"2014-04-25T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=18474"},"modified":"2014-04-26T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T15:21:57","slug":"album-review-devil-you-know-the-beauty-of-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-devil-you-know-the-beauty-of-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"DEVIL YOU KNOW – The Beauty Of Destruction (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEVIL YOU KNOW
The Beauty Of Destruction<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNuclear Blast Entertainment (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Devil You Know is the \u201cnew\u201d band featuring ex-Killswitch Engage frontman Howard Jones alongside All Shall Perish\u2019s Francesco Artusato and John Sankey (Devolved, Divine Heresy, Fear Factory). The band came together in 2012 and hit the studio in 2013 with producer Logan Mader (ex-Machine Head). The result is The Beauty Of Destruction<\/em>, the Los Angeles-based band\u2019s full-length debut. <\/p>\n

As a fan of All Shall Perish and Killswitch Engage, I wasn\u2019t really that interested in this. Both bands are responsible for some of the only metalcore releases worth calling heavy metal and I just didn\u2019t see them keeping pace, let alone topping their prior works.<\/p>\n

However, I begrudgingly downloaded it, thinking I owed it to the heavy metal gods to at least give it a chance, the whole time wondering how it could possibly be anywhere near as good as I dared hope. After all, most \u201csupergroups\u201d are a massive letdown.<\/p>\n

The first few bars of \u2018A New Beginning\u2019 hit with heavy guitars and pounding drums complete with 90s style hardcore tones, breakdowns, and bounce. The vocals march alongside the guitars with Jones recognisable higher-pitched grunts. It certainly gets your attention, as it\u2019s much more crushing and anthemic than I expected. It\u2019s the heaviest track overall, with the possible exception of the chaotic and often disconnected sounding \u2018Shut It Down\u2019 (the album\u2019s lone weak moment).<\/p>\n

While I love the way this album starts off, the majority of the album is full of what you are hoping to hear; big, metalcore anthems with the soaring choruses that Jones perfected a decade ago with his last band. This isn\u2019t a rip-off though. Musically, The Beauty Of Destruction<\/em> has a spark and bite that hasn\u2019t been heard in quite awhile from metalcore. \u2018My Own\u2019 and \u2018Seven Years Alone\u2019, for example, are by the numbers metalcore tunes but they exemplify the genre. The guitars are bombastic and melodic, and the solo in \u2018My Own\u2019 (albeit short) will make you wonder why the hell Artusato didn\u2019t do that more in All Shall Perish. <\/p>\n

The band prove though that they are not a one trick pony with \u2018Crawl From The Dark\u2019. While there are some familiar elements, it\u2019s got a much darker feel and Jones\u2019 vocals branch out, utilizing the softer (read as \u201cslightly gothier\u201d) side of his singing voice. It\u2019s not a side we hear very often and it breaks any potential monotony that the record might have had. The soaring \u2018For The Dead And Broken\u2019 is the other potential monotony breaker, featuring clean vocals and more of a heavy, alternative rock overall sound. I really like the groove the guitars have on this one, and how the riff takes centre stage while the drums and bass just fill everything out.<\/p>\n

I truly dig everything about this album. I didn\u2019t expect this to be able to live up to the members\u2019 former glories but, in some ways, it surpasses them. Devil You Know doesn\u2019t feel like a one-off supergroup at all, they feel like a metal band hungry to make a name for themselves. If you like any kind of metal, there\u2019s a lot to love here, and vocally this is arguably Howard Jones\u2019 best work (with the possible exception of Killswitch Engage\u2019s 2004 album, The End Of Heartache<\/em>). <\/p>\n

Mark Fisher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEVIL YOU KNOWThe Beauty Of Destruction Nuclear Blast Entertainment (2014)Rating: 9\/10 Devil You Know is the \u201cnew\u201d band featuring ex-Killswitch Engage frontman Howard Jones alongside All Shall Perish\u2019s Francesco Artusato and John Sankey (Devolved, Divine Heresy, Fear Factory). The band came together in 2012 and hit the studio in 2013 with producer Logan Mader (ex-Machine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-devil-you-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18479,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18474\/revisions\/18479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}