For me Wage War is one of the most non-inventive bands in mainstream metalcore, and I truly think this acoustic album is better than Manic. While they do not release many interesting songs when writing plain metalcore, the melodies here are very catchy.

Sykelone

For an extremely brilliant Metalcore act to have the guts to release a full acoustic album of some of their biggest hits is a tough call but I commend them! "Slow Burn" and "Never Said Goodbye" work surprisingly well, the rest... iiiiit's a stretch. It sounds beautiful, but they don't really fit with acoustic guitars and piano backing tracks especially so when you know how hard the original tracks go.

1mo

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