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Gone By Tomorrow - Blank Future
by Daniel King - 16 October 2015
If you're wondering 'how can I hear more metal bands from Southampton?' then you've stumbled onto the right review here. Gone By Tomorrow are exactly what you're looking for. If you weren't wondering that, the odds are you're in a pretty good place anyway.
Blank Future is the new EP from South coast outfit Gone By Tomorrow and it fits nicely into one of the most popular genres out there right now. Though that genre is getting to the point now that Nu-Metal reached after a few years - the same tired old songs being churned out without much imagination at all. Are Gone By Tomorrow any different? Yes and no.
No in that you'll think you recognise most of the tracks on Blank Future. Yes in that you'll not quite be able to put your finger on where you know them from. There are influences from all the big hitters out there. You can hear bits of everything from Parkway Drive, through A Day To Remember and coming out at Bullet For My Valentine. Discounting intro track Undefined, Outspoken opens the EP with big growls, a heavy drum beat and a tasty riff. The clean vocals have all the hallmarks of Matt Tuck, but this is no Tears Don't Fall. The track is tasty and the hardcore elements brought in in the middle give it another dimension.
I Saved Latin, What Did You Ever Do?, despite having one of the oddest names of any song I've ever heard, takes the band up a notch, the riffs and vocals both improving along with an interesting electronic tone to it. Here's To You, Dearest Enemy feels like an angrier extension of the previous track and feels like a Sikth song with a time signature that makes sense, that is until the clean vocals come back.
Not The Only ones has the fiercest vocals on the record and the breakdown at the midway point feels like it would be brutal live. Closing track Homecoming is another doesn't really break any new ground in terms of this EP, but isn't a waste of your listening time. It carries the heavy riffs and bruising vocals that you'll have become accustomed to over the past 20 minutes.
Overall, if you're becoming bored of the stale metalcore scene then Gone By Tomorrow are taking it in an interesting direction. They aren't content with just lobbing out the same record you've heard before and are certainly worth your time.
Dan's recommended track: I Saved Latin, What Did You Ever Do?
For fans of: Parkway Drive, Bullet For My Valentine, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
Can you see these guys in the UK?: There's nothing announced, but they have said on their Facebook that a UK tour is incoming.
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