The Seventh Sun
MUSIC FOR NATIONS
THE DAYS OF Bury Tomorrow being plucky underdogs making a decent fist of helping to put British metalcore on the map are long gone. The streaming numbers, venues they headline and reaction to both 2018’s Black Flame and 2020’s Cannibal albums indicate a band on the verge of following their peers with their big commercial breakthrough.
So, it’s with this context that we find their seventh album, The Seventh Sun – a record that could be Bury Tomorrow’s definitive statement, and a bold attempt to upscale up into the territories inhabited by BMTH and Architects. But if that is their goal, then it might not necessarily be realised this time out. That’s not due to a lack of quality, but more because, where everyone else went a bit more toward the mainstream, BT are still way too heavy.
Vocalist Dani Winter-Bates’s roar has become theirfor all its bombastic strings and modern sheen, is dominated by his sandpaper-stripping voice. This is a good thing, by the way. Although accentuates the nuanced electronic pulses, delicate, atmospheric ambience and full-blown pop hooks that Bury Tomorrow have toyed with in their prior work – has ‘O2 Arena set-closer’ written all over it – songs like with its gruesome groove riff, and
