Bury Tomorrow – The Seventh Sun
Release Date: 31st March 2023
Label: Music For Nations
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Genre: Metalcore, Melodic Metalcore.
FFO: ERRA, Our Hollow Our Home, In Hearts Wake, While She Sleeps.
Review By: Mark Young
Following their 6th release, Cannibal, Bury Tomorrow like everyone who faced covid and the resulting lockdowns were forced to look within themselves for the next steps in progressing their musical journey. Although it was well received, they missed the opportunity to present it live, to watch that material develop and grow in front of their fan base. Coupled with wanting to stretch themselves into being something more than just metalcore and borne of the frustration felt from being set in their ways has led to a change in line-up and this, their latest release.
So, is it any good?
Glad you asked, because it is.
If we have underground bands coming through like Heriot, like Celestial Sanctuary and Pupil Slicer who are three bands I absolutely love then I consider Bury Tomorrow to be what the face of mainstream metal (UK wise) looks like. This is not meant as a dig at all, as they have managed to build a set of headline ready songs, that have all the prerequisite components that sound great and will absolutely cause you to lose your mind played live.
Each song has a specific journey with core parts that are used each time but without sounding like a copy of the one before, they sound like the band themselves are playing out of their skin. It sounds big, and it motors like you wouldn’t believe. They also avoid throwing the really slow one in until they get to Majesty, which is halfway through. It’s full of hooks, sing-along, scream-along parts and above all else it’s heavy. When they cut loose, they have got riffs dirtier than a coal miner’s toenails.
Standouts were tied between Boltcutter, Heretic and Care which I think will be just monstrous live and thinking of them live, The Seventh Sun should be the opening song just for the chorus.
I don’t know of their main influences, but I picked up on some belters – Fear Factory, Arch Enemy, Lamb Of God. All of these could be wrong, it’s just my opinion. The best thing is that the whole thing grabs you from start to finish with the arrangements made, so there is no unused air anywhere here. It just moves with that epic sort of swagger of a band who have shook-off the restraints they maybe didn’t know they had and have possibly delivered one of the albums of the year.
1. The Seventh Sun
2. Abandon Us
3. Begin Again
4. Forced Divide
5. Boltcutter
6. Wrath
7. Majesty
8. Heretic
9. Recovery
10. Care
11. The Carcass King
(5 / 5)
