Senses Fail - The Fire (ALBUM REVIEW)

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Senses Fail’s new album The Fire is an interesting listen from a band who over the last seven or so years has went from one of the most trash talked bands to one of the more respected bands in the scene.

The Fire to me is a make or break Senses Fail album. Still Searching earned the band a lot of credibility and Life Is Not A Waiting Room, although not a terrible album by any means, really didn’t outshine Still Searching in my opinion. After Life Is Not… Heath Saraceno (of Midtown fame) parted ways with the band and had a lot of people wondering what their next album would be like or if some of the magic would be lost. Well I believe we can all rest assured because The Fire maybe be one of the best albums of Senses Fail’s career.

One thing that feels different about this album is the overall heaviness of the album. The group has always mixed heavy with melodic, but this release may be their most aggressive one yet. Buddy Nielsen’s vocals have continuously improved over the course of the band’s career and they show marked improvement on this release. The clean vocals show improvement but the screaming/hardcore vocals found on the album are his best performance of those type of vocals found on any album of the bands catalog. Anyone fearing the music might suffer from the loss of Saraceno will easily notice his loss had little impact on the overall ability of the band to craft successful songs.

I think this album finds Senses Fail continuing to make the right decisions in the music business and further securing a career for the band. I can’t say this album is better than Still Searching, which I think may be my favorite of theirs, but I will say it’s at least as good as Still Searching and probably ties them for their best album. From start to finish the band give it 100% like them or not they do give their best effort on this one.