{"id":12079,"date":"2014-02-27T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/cdasilaydying_smc\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:00:01","slug":"cdasilaydying-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdasilaydying-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: As I Lay Dying \/ American Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/asi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21189\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/asi.jpg\" alt=\"asi\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nAs I Lay Dying \/ American Tragedy<br \/>\n&#8220;Split CD&#8221;<br \/>\n(Pluto Records)<\/h4>\n<p>Angry makes me happy. \u00a0There&#8217;s nothing like a little kicking and screaming to get you fired up. \u00a0But why would anyone in Southern California be angry? \u00a0It&#8217;s not some ramshackle, dirty downtown battleground, consuming people and nature with gruesome vigilance. \u00a0It&#8217;s Club Med at the beach with the mildest weather in the United States. \u00a0But I guess some of the people make me angry, so that&#8217;s a good reason. \u00a0And what some people in San Diego have spawned are two hardcore metal monsters in As I Lay Dying and American Tragedy. \u00a0Both of these bands rip, one heavier and one more technical, both metallic hardcore. \u00a0Just like all the best. \u00a0To start, As I Lay Dying grind through five songs of wonderfully melodic heaviness, throttling the listener with thick-as-mud guitars and a growling vocalist who must be related to Satan. \u00a0Bringing up the rear, American Tragedy craft technical crunch on their five tracks. \u00a0Blasting riffy, metallicore wizardry with a throat-searing yellman at the microphone. \u00a0Both heavyweights incorporate a sparse usage of vocal harmonies into their brutal music, while still maintaining the highest level of aggression. \u00a0Much like Poison The Well. \u00a0And like PTW, both understand how to keep heavy music fresh and interesting. \u00a0Who would have thought that this beachfront vacation town would breed two of the best bands in underground metal? \u00a0Thank you San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I Lay Dying \/ American Tragedy &#8220;Split CD&#8221; (Pluto Records) Angry makes me happy. \u00a0There&#8217;s nothing like a little kicking and screaming to get you fired up. \u00a0But why would anyone in Southern California be angry? \u00a0It&#8217;s not some ramshackle, dirty downtown battleground, consuming people and nature with gruesome vigilance. \u00a0It&#8217;s Club Med at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[378,554,5606],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}