Life In Your Way

Walking Giants

[2.5/5] Skirting the line between melodic metallic hardcore and melodic metallic post-hardcore, Life In Your Way draw equally from Shai Hulud’s upbeat/intense juxtaposition and Solid State alum Beloved to create a sound that’s devastatingly… Uh, decent. The usual contrast of pretty, flowery guitar parts and throat-shredding bark is on constant display-sounding just above par. But when the band decide to transition to harmony-laden vocal melodies, they simply sound rehashed and flat. Life In Your Way would comfortably fit in between Underoath and As Cities Burn on a Solid State package tour, and that’s both their blessing and their curse. The band’s performance on Walking Giants is surely gargantuan; unfortunately, they too often find themselves stumbling down an incredibly well-beaten path. (SOLID STATE) Brian Shultz