Artist: twentyinchburial
Album: How Much Will We Laugh and Smile?
Label: Immigrant Sun Records
Tracks: 11
Review By: Jacob Gehman

Ok, let’s be honest. The whole “screamo” thing that was so big last year has run its course. No one wants to hear a new band that that cops the genre in a way that adds nothing new to it. It’s especially bad when the band in question didn’t even cop anything interesting. Unfortunately, it feels like twentyinchburial found a weird copying machine (probably using the latest in groundbreaking quantum mechanics experiments) and modeled themselves after one of those mediocre local screamo bands that opens for the opening bands at a show put on in a fire hall.

For some reason the label is trying to pass this off as something somewhat harder and more intense than it really is. The quote off of their website calls this “blistering metal along with melodic hardcore” which really overstates twentyinchburial. This cd doesn’t blister, it’s not metal, and the only person who would consider this hardcore would be Yanni. The quote did get one thing right, however. The cd is melodic, whatever that means these days.

“How Much Will We Laugh and Smile?” sounds like a bunch of friends who wanted to have fun with guitars. There is nothing wrong with that. I am not one to repress someone’s enjoyment in expressing themselves musically. I just see no reason to market this to everyone else. Pick this up only if you are in the family, in the process dating a member of the band, one of the roadies, or if one of the band member is your boss at work and you want to stay on his good side.