Overall: if you liked We All Have Demons, you will love My Devil In Your Eyes. It is a slower track with just a few lines of lyrics, and ends with the repeated line, “You made me from dust, not dirt.” The only song I didn’t like was “Fill Avoid” because like the title, it feels like a filler track. In Demon Teeth, Garret changes up his brutal guttural growls and uses some intensive screams that throw a nice curveball into the mix. These tracks have some brutal rhythms that break the monotony of some of the regular chugging riffs in the rest of the album. These tracks display the maturity of The Color Morale the best. My Devil In Your Eyes starts out great with “Nerve Endings” and for the most part stays heavy throughout the first 9 tracks of the album until the conclusion “Fill Avoid.” “Demon Teeth” and “Walkers” are by far my favorite tracks. I know many people think that Garrett does the cleans, but their bassist, Justin Hieser, handled all the cleans the four times I have seen them play. The hardcore touring they did in support of their first album really paid off by developing the bands talent. Even the clean vocals were done much better this time around. The guitars, drums, and bass are tons tighter, and Garratt is maturing into a great vocalist. I really enjoyed the first album but this one is much better. With My Devil In Your Eyes, this Illinois based melodic/post hardcore band has shaken the sophomore slump and their sound has matured. It stinks not to have CDs to sell at your show, but on the flip side, it is nice knowing that your album is selling like hotcakes! Between the fall of 2009 to the summer of 2010, I saw these guys live four times, and only the last time at Sonshine last summer did they actually have physical copies of their album to sell. They exploded on the scene in the fall of 2009 with their debut album We All Have Demons, which sold over 10,000 copies. Rise Records has added some variability into their roster lately, but for the most part all of their bands sound the same, and in some cases, even the artists themselves look alike. Will they just recycle their previous album, completely change their sound, or will maturity step in and take them to the next level? Sadly, the overwhelming majority of bands in any genre goes the way of the first two and fade into the sunset. With many bands that explode on the scene, I am always interested to hear what their sophomore has to offer.
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