Nova Prospect don't reinvent the wheel on this LP, but they really do have a good go at it, heavily Black Dahlia influenced melodeath, at many times has me thinking that they do Black Dahlia better than the actual band does nowadays. While lesser known then the other bands I've covered in this feature thus far, Ohio's "The Nova Prospect" is surely just as deserving of such praise. Hell, this was at 28 on the Billboards Heatseekers, a fucking Coalesce record! Almost 10 years after their last effort "0:12 Revolution In Just Listening", they prove themselves to be still completely competent and relevant, if not more so than they already were. More complex, more heavy, more pretty much everything Coalesce used to be, and a few new welcome dashes of originality, most notably a subtle blues influence, even including a 4 bar blues intro to a song. One of the forefathers of the genre returned to the game this year, with the absolutely crushing OX. One of the few CDs I've been anticipating in 2009 that didn't let me down at all. I've heard a few people dismiss this cd as "more of the same" from Darkest Hour, and I'm tempted to agree, but it poses the question of how the fuck that could ever be a bad thing? Another full length of Darkest Hour yet again pushing the boundaries of what a melody can be, of them setting the standard for what melodic death metal and metalcore should be in the year 2009, the perfect symbiosis of catchiness and technicality. I'm still kind of letting BTBAM's newest cd sink in, as it's really something very inaccessible and complex(regardless, you should buy it when it comes out, it's really really good.), but while I'm waiting for that to come to me here are a few releases you should have got on this year, mostly focusing on metalcore releases this time around, but I'll definitely be doing more
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