For the Fallen Dreams "Changes"

Changes sounds like the offspring of Bury Your Dead's pseudo-tough, burly metallic hardcore and Misery Signals' textured, atmospheric metalcore. It's a melodic twist on mosh-a-riffic metalcore. While Bury Your Dead's genes clearly dominate the record, For the Fallen Dreams injects a noticeable amount of airy, melodic guitar parts and powerful, mid-paced drumming into the persistent chugging and two-step-friendly verses, adding some depth to the formula.

The band does an acceptable job of melding their two prominent influences and livening up a stale, mosh-oriented sound, but it's not enough for them to escape coming across as a mechanical metalcore act. I mean, For the Fallen Dreams sounds intense, but I don't really feel the intensity. And they have some creative urges, but they don't quite bring them to fruition. (Misery Signals, on the other hand, has tons of power and a whole lot of melodic prowess -- a tough standard to live up to.) It's a middle-of-the-road release, but I can see people liking it.

Listen for yourself: For the Fallen Dreams - Never Again

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