01. Best Defenses
02. Transparency
03. Rise Up
04. Colder
05. Silent Streets
06. See You Again
07. Eye To Eye
08. Mark This Day
09. Tomorrow
10. Demons Among Us
11. Walk Alone

I actually thought this could be a great experience within the first 30 seconds of this record, then the vocals appeared and everything went down to "Just Ok!"; the song was still catchy, the band knows how to operate their instruments and the riffs I heard in the middle were really powerful, not everything was lost in that moment. I battled hard throughout the entire album, I really wanted me to like this Canadian Metalcore act (the opener was good enough indeed); in the end I lost the bet with myself, the album died slowly and I sat there while this happened.

Even In The Darkest Places has its good moments no doubt; as I already said the opener is truly great, the seventh track ("Eye To Eye") has a great Gothenburg approach (similar to In Flames) and "Demons Among Us" is one of the most aggressive Metalcore songs I've heard in a while. Still the rest of the album passes by trivially; the leftovers are managed with boring structures and with overused songwriting, seriously exemplified in "Rise Up" and even more in "Walk Alone" (damn that one, it has the worst construction I've heard in years).

So I'll try to be short; the Metalcore followers should try this album, at least once, the genre mixture is surely interesting (Hardcore, Metalcore, Pop-Rock, etc.) and a couple of tracks have a fresh vibe going on. The rest of us, the elitists who like Metalcore in small amounts and only because At The Gates is considered to be Metalcore for some, should not try this band at any cost?they use the word God too many times in their lyrics?eeew!!

Performance:	7
Songwriting:	6
Originality:	6
Production:	7