Song Of The Week: Carnifex - Hell Chose Me

With weapons of war in my hands I will become what begs to be forgotten.
With weapons of war in my hands burning to purge this faithless nation.
These are the eyes, I am the mastermind sent to open God's gates and tear down heaven.

Tear down heaven.

You are the programmed dead set to look me straight in the face and I'll tell you what separates Truth from faith.
These lies I preach ever extending my reach inside of your head. [2x]

And with my scriptures I will summon the serpent's tongue, these words will become walls keeping angels from the light of the Son.
This congregation rains like cinders from the sky.
The product of childhood nightmares.
Empty hopes behind empty eyes.
Open your ears, hear my sweet tragedy, open your mouth and drink my sick blasphemy.

Empty hopes behind empty eyes.

I'm crushing the hope of the saved.
Haunted, dark and driven insane.
This is my unholy rapture.
Oh Lord is this not your desire?

With weapons of war in my hands I will become what begs to be forgotten
With weapons of war in my hands burning to purge this faithless nation.
These are the eyes, I am the mastermind sent to open God's gates and tear down heaven.
Tear down heaven.

You are the programmed dead set to look me straight in the face.
I'll tell you what separates Truth from faith.
These lies I preach ever extending my reach inside your head.

God damn this world!
God damn my life!
I didn't chose hell!

Hell chose me!! [4x]

Whew, what a thoroughly brutal and blasphemous anthem from Carnifex.

Admittedly, there is a limit to how much the Deathcore genre can be explored, because there will come one day when no drummer will be able to double-kick the bass drums any faster, and no band can let the breakdowns get any slower and heavier. But! There is still much room for experimentation with the harsh vocals, and Carnifex sure could use that in future.

While the guitarists and drummer kick-ass, they play very similar to fellow peers in the Deathcore genre such as Suicide Silence and The Red Chord (as any experienced metalhead would be able to tell) , and this is probably why most conventional Deathcore haters hate Deathcore - almost all the bands in the genre seem to sound like one another. Ever since I heard Carnifex on their 2nd full-length album "The Diseased And Poisoned" (which was also their first with Victory Records), I thought they would be a promising band to follow in this genre, and I have not been proven wrong with their nasty new album "Hell Chose Me". As you can see, this Song Of The Week is the title track and first single off their latest album, and it deserves to be up here for all its misanthropia and unholiness. Oh yeah, throw in typical but brutal guitar riffs, rapid bass drumming + catchy snare drum beats, and inhuman screaming too. It is not an excellent song (there is hardly anything excellent in Deathcore these days), but good enough to sate that voracious thirst of the Deathcore-lover or be a good illustration of what one can expect from standard "listenable" songs of the genre to a metal newbie.

The executioners are: From left to right - Fred Calderon (Bass Guitar), Ryan Gudmunds (Guitar), Scott Lewis (Harsh Vocals), Shawn Cameron (Drums), Cory Arford (Guitar)

I can emphatize with the Deathcore haters though, for the genre really needs a dose of creativity. Honestly, if this banal onslaught of Deathcore music continues, the genre would start killing itself off.

Until next time.