Band:	Eleventh Apparition
Album:	Silhouettes & Sinners
Style:	Melodic metalcore
Release date:	May 03, 2010
A review by:	Thryce

01. My Open Nightmare
02. The Aforementioned
03. Best Left Alone
04. Silhouettes And Sinners

Metalcore
Recorded: Sonic One Studios, Wales 2009
Label: Glasstone Records
Total Running Time: 23:51


Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the most digestible metalcore band of them all?

Eleventh Apparition is one of those bands that know exactly how to stir the crowd up with inflaming melodies and instigating rhythms. With their reasonably accessible and fairly melodic brand of metalcore, Eleventh Apparition's debut EP sounds like Killswitch Engage themselves barfed all over it. The thing is, Eleventh Apparition is a young band that shows signs of ambition, fairly good ideas and potential... but regrettably no desire to pioneer. Which inescapably translates into a band that has sight but no vision... on top of a recycled thrashy riff here and there.

Though, there are some atypical edges to be traced too. For one, the band has two vocalists. Agreed, not an ultra-rare occurrence but not an everyday thing either. In any case, this adds a bit more verve to the band's overall performance. Then you have the remarkable length of the songs, trying to undermine the idea of an easy walkthrough album. And then there's this indescribable vibe of a band that tries to sound different while actually not being that different. Youthful arrogance maybe? Either way, I dig the attitude - at least I think I do.

Silhouettes & Sinners is the spitting image of a pedophile ice cream truck. It has all the gizmo and fancy tools to persuade you, although you're subconsciously aware this is something you shouldn't get involved with... Oh, what the heck, this seems legit, what harm can it do? Meh, think I'll ride along. We'll just see where it takes me...