My, my, it has certainly been a while. Welcome back to Rock On!, where today we're looking at Scoring The End Of The World, the sixth studio album by American metalcore band Motionless In White. Metalcore has quickly become one of my personal favourite genres to listen to, and this album fits firmly within that circle, or at least most of the songs do.
With lead vocals from Chris Motionless, Scoring The End Of The World bears a political theme, touching on topics that include, but are not limited to, global warming, corruption, and inequality. Some of the songs on the album also touch on mental health, such as "Sign Of Life" and "Cause Of Death". These themes couldn't be clearer. The band knew exactly what they wanted to make known, and hit it home.
On the musical side of things, Scoring The End Of The World has one of the strongest openings to any album I've
listened to, with "Sign Of Life" and "Porcelain" being stand out songs.
As the album steadily (and sort of aggressively) continues, we hit other songs in the album that are certainly good, but don't have the same punch as others, most notably "We Become The Night", which has build-up, but doesn't deliver, when compared to something like "Cause Of Death". And top it off, there's "Masterpiece", the most laid back song of the album, being more of a power ballad than a proper metalcore song; a more than welcome break from the metal-fest that is the rest of the album.
When all is said and done, Scoring The End Of The World is amazing. It offers some of the best choruses I've ever heard, as well as offering songs I would not have even considered listening to a couple of years ago, such as "Slaughterhouse". Motionless In White nail it, and I look forward to listening to their other albums.
Favourite songs: "Sign Of Life", "Werewolf", "Porcelain", "Slaughterhouse", "Cause Of Death", "Cyberhex"
Rating: 8 / 10
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