[MUSIC] Float Face Down – Exitium Verum [REVIEW]

FLOAT FACE DOWN
Exitium Verum
[Rite of Passage/Mediaskare Records]
Verdict: 8/10
RIYL: SUFFOKATE, THE ACACIA STRAIN & WHITECHAPEL

Contrary to popular belief, not everybody from New Jersey are like the cast of that god awful show that I refuse to put in print here. Introducing 4 hungry and hateful individuals, simply known as FLOAT FACE DOWN. The music these gentlemen create is dirty. Heavy. Thick. Nasty and just plain aggressive. The debut full length, Exitium Verum, is without a doubt every bit as crushing as THE ACACIA STRAIN meets SUFFOKATE. The title of the record alone, which loosely translates into “Destruction, Ruin and Truth, Truly, In Fact”, conjures images of violence. Once the record starts, with the groove filled ‘Intro’, the listener understands where this is going and that this won’t be a very pretty or easy ride: churning out destructively tasty pulse raising riffs and attempting to utterly ruin everything in their path. It’s these things that make FLOAT FACE DOWN formidable. Along with the fact that these guys know how to write music that appeals to the Thrash n Burn crowds as well as the Summer Slaughter kids. They don’t just merely write breakdown after breakdown, they actually construct songs that happen to have all necessary ingredients to bang your head, play air guitar/drums right along with them or swing your arms wildly, and it’s a wild ride with no relief in sight until the instrumental track ‘Solemnity’. Here they show they are real musicians by incorporating acoustic guitars and some tasty solo’s, ripe enough for the most jaded and diehard of metal fans. This relief is an epic MACHINE HEAD sized monster, clocking in at 6minutes and 44seconds, before giving way to album closer ‘Etched In Stone’. FLOAT FACE DOWN make sure they go out in style and give fans something to remember them fondly by. Exitium Verum is a 12 song ride through depravity and hatred, but done with so much style and finesse, one doesn’t bother to try and complain, only hit repeat and start the trip again.         -by Jon Hole

Recommended listening: ‘Intro’, ‘The Broken Switch’, ‘Solemnity’ & ‘Etched In Stone’.
Release date: March 13, 2012
In conclusion…Float Face Down have released an album that will put an end to the haters that keep calling deathcore a dead genre. Exitium Verum is a brutally destructive record that will make heads turn, bones break and the faint of heart pass out.