Deceiver is the first album from the metalcore band The Word Alive. The Arizona natives were able to successfully blend metalcore, thrash metal, groove metal, and even some ambient. The metalcore genre can get repetitive when it comes to the chugging breakdowns, double kick drum, and clean to unclean vocals. But The Word Alive has a secret weapon known as Dusty Riach, the keyboardist. I am not really a fan of the synthesizer when it comes to metalcore or post-hardcore, but for some crazy reason, The Word Alive was able to make it work. From the electronic beats to the dubstep beats, Riach has pulled off what so many others have tried. Lead guitarist, Zack Hansen, is a beast and shreds the guitar apart from the first track to the last track. With the help of his side kick Tony Pizzuti, they unleash a fury of guitar masterwork. The best part of the band is the vocalist and lyricist, Tyler "Telle" Smith. His lyrics cover a wide arrange of emotions and feelings.
Songs such as The Hounds Of Anubis, The Wretched, and Battle Royale will get your blood flowing and make you hate as much as Telle Smith hates. In the songs Like Father, Like Son and Lights And Stones (my personal favorite) you feel the power and strength, of Telle's lyrics. What is a metal band without a ballad? You're All I See is The Word Alive's ballad.
The only down sides to this album are the lack of drum and bass; they need to be more of a presence to get an even fuller sound out of the band. Also, the Deluxe Edition of the album was a hit and miss for me. Lights And Stones and Apologician are quite possibly the best songs on the album and they were part of the deluxe edition. But the dubstep remixes of the songs The Wretched, 2012, and The Hounds Of Anubis are terrible; the album would have been much better if they were excluded from it.
In my opinion this was a contender for AOTY.
I give this album an 9.5/10
Review by - Brian Clemmons
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