The Ghost Inside return triumphantly.

I'm sure you've all noticed how dead this blog has been. I've been too buys to post because I've either been a) sorting out my life in the build up for leaving high school, or b) playing video games (MW2 is surprisingly fun). I'd been without a gaming console for two weeks and it had begun to get to my head, the crazy started creeping in, so I've been making up for lost time when I'm not researching design schools and qualifications and companies and such. One thing that worth posting about that has stirred me into action, however, is the leak of the new TGI album...

Okay. So I'm not the much the kind of person to download music from an incredibly talented band, but The Ghost Inside promised us, the fans, an early 2010 release for their new album Returners. What did they do? With a fully recorded and completed album, what's the next step? Hey, let's just delay the release until June! To build hype? Who knows! Sorry guys, Fact released an album in April '09, announced a new full-length in October '09, and had it released by January '10. That's the kind of efficiency in delivery that bands can learn from. Bitterness aside, I was left a stunned frullet upon giving the album a listen. And I can confirm that I will, without a doubt, even having downloaded a high-quality leak, DEFINITELY be purchasing the album (and some merch).

I adored their first album Fury And The Fallen Ones, and I highly doubted, along with nearly any band that's ever existed, that TGI would be able to surpass the soaring levels of musical perfection their debut reached. However, my expectations of the album climbed higher and higher with each new track added to their myspace, until after the 3rd addition I was questioning my lack of faith in these guys. When I had heard the album had leaked from a couple of friends, and all their ranting and raving about it's exceptionality, I couldn't resist. And boy, did the album deliver. There's a definite progression from their previous release, they've moved on from their comfortable niche of balanced chug-n-melody and instead Returners contrasts these elements of their unique brand of hardcore.

The result is a sort of combination of Misery Signals-esque melodic guitar work laden with (dare I say it) Bury Your Dead-style breakdowns. This album seems to be TGI's take on the material of another one of their similar artists, For The Fallen Dreams. FTFD fans may cry, but it appears TGI have beaten them at their own game (and that's no easy feat). The vocals are harsher, the chuggy chuggier, the melody melodic-er and the mood of the whole album a little further on the serious side. The band have definitely matured, and heck, I'll reluctantly admit IMPROVED. And when the album drops on June 8th, I'll ensure that I have a copy waiting with my name written, scrawled and engraved all over it.

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