REVIEW: Sinner[The]Saint – ‘The Curious Tale Of Mistress Murder’

September 11th, 2013

Kriston McConnell

ARTIST: Saint[The]Sinner
ALBUM: The Curious Tale Of Mistress Murder
GENRE: Metalcore
LABEL: None

I’m always excited to learn about new bands and listen to new music. I think it’s safe to say that most people feel that way. Finding a new favorite band is a satisfying experience, one that you get to share with all of your music loving friends. Sinner[The]Saint has been one of those bands for me recently. They’re a six piece unsigned metalcore outfit hailing from the UK. They recently self released an album titled The Curious Tale Of Mistress Murder, which I’ve had the opportunity to check out.

The album starts off with “Cirque De Pecheur,” which is a spoken word intro played over various sounds, including a music box and thunder. “The Lament” is the next track, and it starts off with haunting vocals saying, “Buried you under the floor // But your heart was still beating // You’re still fresh on the door // What have I done // I was so sick of waiting // Your love for me was fading.” The song is haunting, and you can clearly hear the lament in the vocalist’s voice. They perfectly captured the raw emotion they were looking for.

One of my personal favorite tracks is “Atlas And Compass…Direction Pending.” The track is slower, and the unclean vocalist part yells/part screams the lyrics as a violin plays in the background. It speeds up as the drums, piano and clean vocalist enter the melody. Once again they’ve very clearly proven they can encapsulate so much passion in a single song.

The album ends with “The Comedown.” This is another one of my favorite tracks, and they couldn’t have chosen a better song to end their album with. The band made sure they did everything they could to leave an impression on the listener by the end of the album, and they succeeded. This is the heaviest track, but it still features their staple over the top theatrical sound. The song ends with group vocals chanting, and they slowly trail off into silence.

If you are a fan of bands like Famous Last Words then you will likely dig Saint[The]Sinner. Instead of working to sound the same as every other band in their genre they’ve decided to take a different path – producing a haunting, theatrical sound. Overall this is a very entertaining album, and is certainly a nice break from other bands in the genre, especially considering this was self released by the band.

If the band could only boast about one thing about their album, it would definitely be the passion heard in every note of each song. Though the vocals aren’t always very strong, the lyrics are pretty original, and the theatrical feel is a nice change-up from the repetition of some other metalcore bands. I’d like to see some more focus on the instruments in the future, but they definitely deserve some recognition for recording and producing this album all on their own.

SCORE: 7/10
Review written by Kriston McConnell