The Third Memory - Et De Cela Rien Ne Ressort

Great band from France. Blasts, delay pedals, and screamin'. What more could you ask for? My only qualm is that their abnormally tight snare, which I'm really OK with, is mixed incredibly loud into every recording. Some of these songs are absolutely incredible, but are brought down by how obnoxiously loud the snare drum is on this album. Don't get me wrong. This is still great stuff. Some of my favorite guitar work in the genre is on here. On their myspace it says that they're currently writing and recording for a 2010 release. I'm excited, and I'll upload the rest of their stuff when I find it. I really want to hear the split they have with Cease Upon The Capitol.

8.5/10.

Hit them up with "third mammary" jokes for me if you ever see them.

The Third Memory

Et De Cela Rien Ne Ressort

My Heart To Joy / At The Same Tone

First off, My Heart To Joy and My Heart To Joy At The Same Tone are the exact same band.

My Heart To Joy At The Same Tone is a band that formed in 2006 in Connecticut. They played a variety of very mad, very well done screamo. Their demo, officially titled Demo Days, is by far their angriest release, and sounds great. After their demo, they put out an EP titled Heavenly Bodies, which contains one of my favorite songs, "Ethics." Heavenly Bodies was recorded much better than their demo. There's more tone in the vocalist's voice, and everything just sounds more solid. After Heavenly Bodies, they released a three song Virgin Sails EP. The first two tracks of this EP are not much different from Heavenly Bodies, there's a little bit more yelling than screaming, but nothing drastic. However, the third track sounds completely different from anything they ever did before, and is more geared toward the whiny genre of emo.

Sometime in Fall 2008, My Heart To Joy At The Same Tone stopped playing shows, and sat down to write Seasons In Verse, which was released in early 2009, under the name My Heart To Joy, shortening their name like Fear Before did months earlier. Seasons In Verse is a continuation of the radically different final track of Virgin Sails, and is so different from their previous work that their name change was actually justified. Their change from angry screamo to 'noodley' Kinsella-esque emo came as a surprise, but to none's dismay. With both genres, My Heart To Joy does what they do very well, and that is probably what I like the most about this band. Seasons In Verse is a very strong record for the genre. The title track is amazing, even though it is a little bit unsettling to hear a man that screamed at the top of his lungs about Voltaire whine about the changing seasons instead.

I missed My Heart To Joy when they came around last, and was very pleased to hear that they will be playing in my area in January with Hostage Calm, a band I haven't seen since they were giving out their demo for free.

Favorite track: "Ethics"

My Heart To Joy

Demo Days

Heavenly Bodies

Virgin Sails

Seasons In Verse

Men As Trees & Single State Of Man Split

First Post.

Up until recently, one of my favorite bands ever, Men As Trees, for some awful reason retained the sound as if they used ten dollar mics on all of their recordings. Their song off of this release, "Wreckage," is originally from their 2009 winter tour demo. The song itself is excellent, and the difference between the demo recording and this one is marvelous. Right now, MAT is on hiatus so all of them can finish school work, and two of them are teaching children in South Korea, and are currently looking for a drummer. Single State Of Man is an amazing band from Germany, and their song on this split is equally fantastic.

9/10.

Be on the lookout for Men As Trees/Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort/Dolcim/Dying In Motion split coming soon.

Men As Trees

Single State Of Man

The Split