Music Review : Young
and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death
(2014)
Formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, YAITW are a blackened
crust punk band or a crust punk band playing black metal. In fact, they are
using various elements of each genre to form their own particular sound.
As one would have guessed it this makes it for a very
aggressive album and a very somber used of many themes like the title Whe
n Life Comes to Death would suggest. With songs like Fuck This Life, Be My Blood, We Are Nothing, Final Dose, and Embrace Extinction don’t expect any joie de vivre. The revolving of those themes reminds of old school punk and makes it for a very homogenous record. Surprisingly, this is somewhat of an accessible piece for fans of each genre because of the easy mingle between crust punk and black metal and the opened path by the recent releases of the legendary Norwegians of DarkThrone.
Finally, since this is a crossover of two hermetic genres, When Life Comes to Death reminds us how
bands that mix many genres like the finnish power/black/heavy metallers of Children
of Bodom have gained many non-metal fans or non-fans of each genre to rally and
be the poster boys of metal, well YAITW despite their dangerous attitude are
kind of giving a similar message of entry into the genres but not completely
immersing into the core of both of the infamous music.
6.0
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