Beartooth are American melodic hardcore band and this is their fourth album. This new opus contains twelve songs and I had mixed feelings about it prior to listening. Why? Because, as a kid I came from that street punk more oi oriented roots of hardcore and loved my hardcore youth crew and punk oriented with lots of punk and little metal in it. Then, in the middle of the nineties came that so called new school hardcore bands with all that chugga chugga metal oriented riffs and as I also listened to metal in my earlier youth, I embraced bands like Strife, Snapcase, Earth Crisis and similar. Then came that more modern style of hardcore like Beartooth play. But, I really love this band. They play a healthy dose between rough modern hardcore with mosh and metal riffing, but plain old punk rock serves as a platform on which they build their song structures and they do it great. I love the mix between rough and screaming vocals and fantastic melodic vocals. Songs like Devastation, The Past Is Dead and Phantom Pain are my personal favorites, but upon every listening I find something else that makes me smile with satisfaction. Great record indeed!