Band:	Upon A Burning Body
Album:	The World Is My Enemy Now
Style:	Deathcore
Release date:	August 12, 2014
Guest review by:	Marcelo Hissa

01. Red Razor Wrists
02. Scars
03. Fountain Of Wishes
04. Bring The Rain
05. Pledge Your Allegiance
06. The New Breed
07. A Toda Madrè Ò Un Desmadrè
08. Judgement
09. The World Is My Enemy Now
10. Blood, Sweat And Tears
11. I've Earned My Time
12. Middle Finger To The World

Aggressive, with lower-tuned guitars, with the speed of metalcore added to the death metal vocals that does not appeal to the incomprehensible too-deep growling vocals while keeping a musical structure derived from the hardcore: welcome to Upon A Burning Body.

The World Is My Enemy Now is the third album from these Texas fellows and despite being rated as deathcore, the vocals do not get too grunty (which is good news) to be death. For 40 minutes get drunk with an energetic, heavy and contagious musical festival.

This is how the album goes: blows after blows with some headbangable groove permeated with howled vocals that duplicate during choruses. Best of all is the lack of tearfully bogus melody that breaks most of the metalcore songs. Do not think, however, that the album is repetitive: the tunes flow well enough to avoid turning this experience into a journey of boredom.

"Highlight Red Razor Wrists" opens the album by kicking in the door screaming of all the violence that lies ahead. The aggressive Danny Leal vocals do not slow down and sound awesome when folded as in "Pledge Your Allegiance". Sometimes there are flirtations with nu metal, but that descends quickly to an almost hardcore crash as in "The World is My Enemy Now". Matt Heafy from Trivium makes a cameo in "Blood, Sweat And Tears," one of the fastest songs. On the issue of curiosity we have "A Toda Madre ò un Desmadre" which is basically an instrumental song played on flamenco acoustic guitar; it's the coffee break.

Some incautious listeners may accuse Upon A Burning Body to be too modern for nu metal, too clean for death metal or too bitter for metalcore. I prefer to think that World Is My Enemy Now takes on the very best of each style and assembles the formula for a great metal album.