There’s no feigned sophistication, no phoned-in sloganeering, and no calculated drama with Emmure. This is barebones, punishing, death metal-flavored metallic hardcore, driven by the catchiest rhythmic bounce of Active Rock radio’s golden age of nu-metal.
Track list:
side A:
- You Asked For It
- Shinjuku Masterlord
- Smokey
- Natural Born Killer
- Flag Of The Beast
- Ice Man Confessions
side B:
- Russian Hotel Aftermath
- Call Me Ninib
- Major Key Alert
- Turtle In A Hare Machine
- Torch
- Derelict
- Gucci Prison
"Look At Yourself" represents a coming of age for Emmure, a new chapter in an aggressive autobiography that stretches back to the band’s very first album, released when Palmeri was barely out of his teens. It’s infused with a brutal self-examination and observation, balancing hate, bile and perseverance, with the tempered experience of a life spent in pursuit of self-reliance and respect, from within and without. It’s expressed in a crushing cacophony of riffs that never fail to super-serve the forward-motion groove of Emmure.
Out on Sharp Tone/Nuclear Blast, info Nuclear Blast