Signed by Outpost, Days Of The New were discovered in one of those almost now mythical battle of the bands. Coming from Kentucky, USA the band's songwriting talent is in the hands of 17 year old Travis Meeke. The music is similar to what you may expect from a typical metal band, but the way in which it is recorded will get mixed reactions.
Holding many elements of the old grunge scene DOTN manages to sound more like rock than alternative. The riffs are pleasant and reserved, rather than powerful and overbearing. Being driven by the two guitars the drums are almost a token instrument. I hate to say bad things about the drumming since it does a good job of keeping to fairly slow beat in the songs, but it sounds fairly flat as if it's a simple drum machine sequence. Other than the guitars, the vocals play a significant role. Lower clean vocals that range from singing to the occasional burst of intense shouting.
Okay, so I have to mention it sometime. There are no electric guitars on this album, it's strictly acoustic. Combining this with the very simple structure gives the music a mellow emotional feel that you'd expect of a western movie's soundtrack. It's difficult to say it'd be better with distortion, since it'd likely just be one of the masses then. Although it is more than that. A solid performance that will unfortunately get ignored by many metal/extreme mags and only a sideline note in the other mags.
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