Band:	Devilinside
Album:	Volume One
Style:	Hardcore
Website:	http://www.devilinsidemafia.com
Release date:	2004
A review by:	Malcolm

01. After The Prelude
02. Thirty Four Months For Nothing
03. Batan
04. Conflicted, Conditioned
05. Glass
06. Hangnail
07. New Year's Day
08. California Burning
09. Dead Wrong
10. Tear The Veil
11. Confession
12. Ignis Fatuus
13. Last Dying Wish
14. Bane Of Existence
15. Canyons
16. Vodkalung
17. Kiss The Cynic
18. Breathing Fear
19. Transition In E Minor
20. Burden's Gift
21. Tortured
22. The Outlook
23. Outro

Metalcore that some are calling this peculiar part of Hardcore, have to be the worst kind of Core there is.
Not only because they claim that they are Metal, but also because the "music" is so damn horrible. Or maybe not the music, but the music, the vocals and everything around it mixed together makes it horrible.

Devilinside hails from USA (maybe that's the explanation for the choice of style?), and was born out of the ashes of Disembodied, evidently a quite large Hardcore/Metalcore band from the mid-´90s.
They have just released one album, a four-track EP (Prelude, 2004) that's only available as an import in Europe, before the release of this debut album, simply entitled "Volume One".

I'm certain that the first thing you noticed (after the cover artwork) was the amount of songs on this album, 23. Of course, many of them are short and just instrumental (the longest is 4:01), but still, 23 songs are much for an album.
But it's normally not making an album better, and so is the case with Devilinside too, this album is not good, Metalcore is not good, hardcore is not good. (But that's just my personal opinion).

I already knew what I had to expect of this, since I read the back of the promo (which are the place Century Media places the bio) and thanks to that I wasn't fooled when the first song, the intro, started playing. After around a minute, a very Nevermore:ish sound is coming out of my speakers.
But all the hopes you might have now, will be totally blown away just 1 second into the first real song, "Thirty Four Months for Nothing", were everything is just?. Boring.
The singer screams like a hippopotamus male that's getting castrated, and the music is just monotonous and boring, with a lot of strange sounds that should not be here.

But there is one song that's just so awful that I almost not want to mention it, it's track number 4, "Glass", that's not a real song, it's just a lot of strange and awful sounds, so very unnecessary.
But if I shall pick something that I find good with this album, I'll say the heaviness and music, sometimes. Because the music is, in some songs, pretty good; they have some riffs that would fit very well on a real Metal album, easiest to hear in the beginning of some songs.

But I don't recommend this to Metal listeners, but all of you that thinks Metalcore is the genre for you, check this up, who knows, many you'll find a new favourite band?

Check Out: For Metalcore fans, the whole album, for others, just remember not to buy this if you find it.