{"product_id":"day-of-mourning","title":"Day of Mourning","description":"Personnel: Alex Erian, Steve Marois (vocals); Ben Landreville, Eric Jarrin (guitar); Alex Pelletier (drums).\u003cbr\u003eAudio Mixer: Andreas Lars Magnusson.\u003cbr\u003eDespised Icon have ties to the Quebec technical death metal scene, though they're not truly part of it. Their music has some intricate parts, but it's primarily a display of muscle-headed deathcore brutality. Their album, DAY OF MOURNING, was produced by the band's former guitarist, Yannic St-Amand, though, and he's worked with acts like Ion Dissonance, Neuraxis, and Beneath the Massacre, so he knows how to get an ultra-clean tech-death sound. Drummer Alex Pelletier sounds like a machine, whipping through ultra-complex fills and brutal, endurance-testing blastbeats with equal energy, and St-Amand gives him a full, reverby sound rather than the typewriter\/practice-pad clicking still too common in extreme metal. Pelletier, in fact, is the primary reason to listen to this album, as the riffs--even when they shift briefly, tantalizingly, into dissonance--are mostly of an extremely knuckle-headed-friendly sort, downtuned and grinding like a bulldozer trying to work its way out of a golf course sand trap. Some songs, like \"Eulogy,\" feature decent soloing, but for the most part, the guitars are there to provide a foundation for the two lead vocalists to shout and scream over. They come across like a Run-D.M.C.-style partnership, one going low and the other somewhat higher, with the entire band joining in for gang shouts at times. Within the extremely limited context of deathcore, this is a pretty good album, but \"thick-necked dudes riffing and bellowing\" is a genre that's offering limited rewards in 2009, so DAY OF MOURNING is best appreciated as a showcase for Alex Pelletier; it would be nice if he could find a side band more worthy of his talents.","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50974058283295,"sku":"727701861425","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/f2d0a0975b80d5d71ff8ee09eb5182a6_df0f60ed-618a-4434-993c-58c438f5cc36.jpg?v=1777891841","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/day-of-mourning","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}