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Track Listing
1. Killing Machine
2. Let the Right One In
3. Scavengers of the Damned
4. Elizabeth
5. Crusifiction
6. Asylum, The
7. Portrait
8. Excommunicate
9. King On Holiday
10. Black Market Hell / Lori Meyers
Album Notes
Personnel: Anna Ivarra, Jeremy Beddingfield, Ryann Donnelly, Rick Kern (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Justin Armstrong; William Control.
Seattle's pitch-black poster boys for the post hardcore/screamo scene have returned with a raw, vicious fourth album that seethes with emotion. Singer Wil Francis seemed to have exercised some of his demons on his solo side-project William Control, but the pain and fury of his lyrics are still in place with Aiden. KNIVES races forward with unstoppable forward motion, each song lacerating with lashes of melodic guitar and Francis's impassioned voice. Potent anti-religion songs like "Crusifiction" and "Excommunicate" nail hypocrisy to the wall while still maintaining fully hummable choruses, and hugely entertaining punk hand grenades like "the Asylum" and "King on Holiday" hide pop smarts in blistering hardcore tempos. Even the big-statement album closer, "Black Market Hell," retains its accessibility, proving that the secret to Aiden's success is a spoonful of sugar to help all that black, sticky bile go down smoothly.
Industry Reviews
Spiteful and contemptuous though the content may be there's an underlying, un-erring knack for big choruses and striking guitar lines throughout.
Aiden frontman Wil Francis sports both full-on attitude and a confident swagger....KNIVES is a pole vault in the right direction...
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