Every Time I Die - Low Teens (Deluxe Edition) (2016)

Low Teens is the eighth studio album by American metalcore band Every Time I Die, released on September 23, 2016 on Epitaph. The first new song shared is “The Coin Has a Say” which operates as an extremity test, with every gear-shift somehow pushing the band into inexplicably heavier territories.

“The whole winter, the temperature was in the low teens. Bitterly cold,” says Every Time I Die’s front man Keith Buckley regarding the months that yielded their eighth full-length album. But Keith and the rest of the band Jordan Buckley (guitar), Andy Williams (guitar), Daniel Davison (drums), and Steve Micciche (bass) aren’t so hard up for pathos at this point that they’re grumbling about the temperature outside. If anything, Low Teens is their most poignant and impassioned album in a career full of sardonic illuminations and pit-inciting fervor. The band was on tour in Toronto in December when Keith received a phone call that his wife was in the hospital with a life-threatening pregnancy complication. It was a harrowing night as Buckley left the tour and raced home to overwhelming uncertainty. Both wife and daughter survived the ordeal, but the moment of crisis had a lasting impact on Buckley and an inevitable role in shaping the lyrical scope of Low Teens.

Low Teens’ razor-sharp sound and auditory barbarism was abetted by engineer and producer Will Putney (Acacia Strain, Body Count, Exhumed). Low Teens’ guest vocalists further demonstrate these polarized extremes, with formidable bellower Tim Singer (Deadguy, Kiss It Goodbye, No Escape) roaring alongside Buckley on opening track “Fear and Trembling” and longtime friend Brendan Urie (Panic! at the Disco) providing a melodic counterpoint on “It Remembers”. Yes, Every Time I Die has always juggled hardcore urgency, metal brutalism, and rock melodies, but never has it felt this instinctive or this vicious. The pressure drop that yielded Low Teens could have crippled a lesser band, but Every Time I Die weathered the winter to deliver their strongest offering to date because of, not in spite of, these hardships and roadblocks.

Keith Buckley – vocals
Jordan Buckley – guitar
Andrew Williams – guitar
Stephen Micciche – bass
Daniel Davison – drums

Track List:
01. Fear and Trembling (feat. Tim Singer)
02. Glitches
03. C++ (Love Will Get You Killed)
04. Two Summer
05. Awful Lot
06. I Don't Want to Join Your Stupid Cult Anyway
07. It Remembers (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco)
08. Petal
09. The Coin Has a Say
10. Religion of Speed
11. Just as Real but Not as Brightly Lit
12. 1977
13. Map Change
14. Skin Without Bones (Bonus Track)
15. Nothing Visible; Ocean Empty (Bonus Track)