Beyond The Embrace Discography of CDs

Beyond The Embrace music CDs Beyond the Embrace's second album, Insect Song, starts off promisingly enough with "Fleshengine Breakdown," which comes off like a cross between To Ride, Shoot Straight...-era Entombed and a couple of Phil Anselmo's bands, Pantera and Down. The song has a combination of thrashy heaviness and bluesy Southern rock tendencies, and lead singer Shawn Gallagher's vocals shift deftly from screaming to deep-voiced, melodic singing in a way that's similar -- almost too similar -- to Anselmo. The Anselmo comparison holds true vocally for the rest of the album, although subsequent tracks find the band broadening their range to include Gothenburg-style Swedish death metal riffs and, more and more as the album goes on, generous helpings of generic, radio-ready hard rock that brings to mind mid-'90s Metallica -- and not in a good way (if it is indeed possible for one to be reminded of mid-'90s Metallica in a good way). BTE are kind of a hard band to get a handle on: one minute, they'll sound like Lamb of God, the next like early In Flames, and then the next minute like some generic, grunge-influenced, late-'90s hard rock band. Regardless, they have put together a well-crafted album here with lots of potential crossover appeal for lapsed Metallica and Pantera fans, viewers of the revived MTV Headbangers' Ball, and open-minded Ozzfest goers. ~ William York Recording information: System Recordings, Ipswich, MA (12/12/2003-02/09/2004). Arranger: Beyond the Embrace. Beyond the Embrace: Shawn Gallagher (vocals); Jeff Saude, Alex Botelho (guitar); Adam Gonsalves (bass instrument); Oscar Gouveia, Kevin Camille. Personnel: Jeff Saude, Alex Botelho, Oscar Gouveia (guitar); Kevin Camille (drums); Aaron Clay (programming). Additional personnel: Aaron Clay.

Beyond The Embrace discography Against the Elements is the album Metallica could have made instead of the eponymous "Black Album" if they had decided that the technical ecstasy on ...And Justice for All wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but they needed to be beefed up instead of dismissed. The most amazing thing is that New England-based thrashers Beyond the Embrace managed this level of proficiency on a debut. All ...