MOG

My main thought about this CD: It's sad to see a band with a little bit of talent or ability in a particular style of music insist on doing a second-rate imitation of something else. Harsh words, perhaps, but I'd say it's true. What genre to try to stuff them in depends on who you ask: Wiki says metalcore, deathcore, and sludge metal; the band's MySpace page claims "Metal/Down-tempo/Psychedelic" while the PR blurb insists they're too melodic for death metal and too brutal for metalcore. Calling them death metal would be questionable at best, but I'm going to be a little lazier and lump them into post-hardcore.

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