Rule # 1 of metal: no smiling. I mean it’s just not the done thing, is it? Maybe a fleeting expression of amusement is permissible in the context of a ‘backstage’ or ‘studio’ clip in a live video montage, but that’s it. When it comes to photoshoots, those serious, moody looks they’ve been practicing all their years as surly teenagers are obligatory. So what’s with the picture on the inner cover of this six tracker? Four of the guys are there adopting their best rock poses, all stubble and haircuts, and there, front middle the singer’s there in a white v-neck t-shirt with a definite smile. Actually, not so much a smile as… no, it’s Mona Mona Lisa effort. It’s a smirk. Sure, he’s got the rock tats on display, but he actually looks self-satisfied, smug even.
It could be that he’s chuffed with the six blindingly aggressive, relentlessly metal tracks on this six tracker, and that would be fair enough. But the cover art, the song titles – ‘I Will Prevail’, ‘Until Lambs Become Lions’, ‘The Brave One’, for example – and the appearance of the rest of the band suggests that Envy the Fallen are deadly serious and not the sort to let their emotions - other than anger, that is – show.
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No, if anything, he simply looks like he’s dropped one and knows what’s about to hit his bandmates. Perhaps he has, and maybe it stinks. At least his band doesn’t, even if they’re not exactly my scene.
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