Misery Signals
Ultraviolet

First album: masterpiece.

Second album: masterpiece.

Third album: masterpiece (in this case, deserving a cry of miracle).

Fourth album: (half) masterpiece.

And "Ultraviolet"?

Waited for years, especially by myself, who has loved this band madly and drew maximum inspiration from it for my own music, an album marked the return of that much-praised (justly so) singer on "Of Malice and the Magnum Heart", the band's first masterpiece (indeed), I was telling myself that it could only be another masterpiece, again.

And yet unfortunately, no.

Stellar production, well-structured songs, power, melody, an important voice, there even seems to be a piece of heart within the album, symbolically speaking: so what went wrong for Misery Signals this time?

The desire to copy themselves.

The album represents more a group imitating them than a true step forward: the songs are stale, you forget them immediately, perhaps with the exception of a couple of tracks at most, there are no true hits like "A Certain Death" and others ("The Failsafe"… etc.), the aggression and the dark power even of the last, controversial but beautiful, album are missing, in short, that X Factor that seemed impossible to deny the five technical Metalcore champions that I so loved is lacking.

I would have much preferred an experimental album like the penultimate "Absent Light", or perhaps even more, a "Roots" transported into the world of hardcore, than the classic task of open chords, Djent/Core blasts, and dreamy arpeggios up to a point, devoid of that magic that represented the band.

Maybe over time, I will change my mind.

Alas, I don't think so.