Funeral for a Friend - Memory and Humanity (2008)

As the follow-up to last year’s Tales Don’t Tell Themselves, this is the first album to be released from the boys’ own label Join Us Records and will hit our shelves exactly five years to the day that they released their debut record Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation.

This album sees them return to the original sound they adopted on that first record: but even bigger, and far, far better. Fair enough Matt Davies’ vocals can never really change, but this time they are more addictive than ever before.

This offering sees them combine all the great things they have learnt over the past five years to produce what is arguably their best album yet; marrying their stadium-rock presence with perfectly timed screaming vocals and more-ish melodies whilst still retaining their unique character.

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Copeland - You Are My Sunshine (2008)

You Are My Sunshine will be Copeland’s 4th full length record (not counting their B-side album). The band started off with ‘Beneath Medicine Tree’ which showed off the softer side of the band, graduating then on to a more rock orientated ‘In Motion’. ‘Eat, Sleep, Repeat’ took the band in a completely new direction exploring darker tones along with other arrangements. One thing you can expect from You Are My Sunshine is that it won’t be like anything we’ve heard from the band before. In the same way the band makes a point in choosing art work to represent the songs, they also have yet to be confined to a specific style and way of making music.

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Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season (2008)

What what? Is this the new record from Bring Me The Horizon? Really? In the space of one album the chuggy deathcore of ‘Count Your Blessings’ has all but gone and been replaced by ten tracks of ranging metal spiced with moments of quasi punk rock and dashed with electro touches left, right and centre. Vocalist Sykes sounds like Frank Carter from Gallows and the band sound like old school Norma Jean playing Refused and Underoath covers twice as fast as the originals. First listen through is bewildering, second listen is not much better but by third listen it starts to click, by listen four you dig it and by listen five you have the guilty thought that this might be one of the best metal albums to be released in 2008. The one error of the record is the track ‘No Need For Introductions, I’ve Read About Girls Like You On The Back Of Toilet Doors’. If Sykes wanted sympathy or understanding for the turmoil he experienced when he was taken to court by a woman who alleged he urinated on her then he certainly lost it when he screams “After everything you put me through / I should have fucking pissed on you.” Not smart.

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Senses Fail - Life Is Not A Waiting Room (2008)

Senses Fail announces an October 7 release for Life Is Not A Waiting Room (Vagrant), their third full-length and follow up to 2006's Still Searching.
The band will be unveiling more pre-release details and their fall touring plans in the coming weeks.Fans that stop by the Vagrant tent after July 16 during this summer's Vans Warped Tour can pick up the free Vagrant Summer Sampler that features "Ali For Cody," from Life Is Not A Waiting Room.The New Jersey-based group formed six years ago and released their debut EP, From the Depths of Dreams, in 2002. 2004's Let It Enfold You was followed by Still Searching, which debuted at #15 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Senses Fail has performed multiple worldwide tours and their catalog sales have reached over 850,000.

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Escape The Fate - This War Is Ours (2008)

On May 6, 2008, Escape the Fate announced that Craig Mabbitt (Blessthefall) has officially joined the band for the recording of 'This war is ours' The album produced by John Feldmann.
After a year of drama and speculation following the departure of original singer Ronnie Radke, Escape the Fate has emerged stronger than ever. With a hyper-talented new singer, a remarkable new album produced by John Feldmann (the Used, Story of the Year, Atreyu) and a fall tour with Chiodos and Silverstein, the resilient quartet are proving that sometimes fate is what you make of it.

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