Blinded Black, Under The Sunrise

Attention all you bored, 15-year-old suburbanites sporting dyed black hair and Hawthorne Heights T-shirts: here is the soundtrack to your sad, miserable lives. Basically, Blinded Black is what would happen if the Muzak Corporation attempted a foray into the realms of screamo and metal-core. Under The Sunrise incorporates every cliché of the genre — the three-chord, chugga-chugga guitar riffs, the alternating scream/moan vocals, ridiculous “depressing” lyrics, and so on. The only element that isn’t completely generic is the horrific synth action that’s going on throughout the album. I could keep going on about what an atrocity Under The Sunrise is, but why waste the effort?