Greying (The Banner album)

Greying
Studio album by The Banner
Released December 9, 2014
Genre Metalcore, hardcore punk
Length 41:00
Label Good Fight Music
The Banner chronology

Frailty
(2008)		 Greying
(2014)

Greying is the fourth full-length album released by The Banner on Good Fight Music on December 9, 2014. The album was the band's first in six years and is distinct from their past releases for its use of post-punk and stronger influences of industrial metal and Gothic metal than what was found on their previous albums. The track "She Upon the Black Wolf" features guest vocals by Gallows vocalist Wade MacNeil.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Exclaim! 7/10[1]

Bradley Zorgdrager of Exclaim! wrote that the band's "metallic hardcore gruffness is cloaked in goth leanings and frosted over by varying degrees of black metal," further explaining that "these subtleties are what differentiate the Banner and newer bands they now find themselves peers with."[1]

Track listing

  1. The Dying of the Light - 6:01
  2. Circle of Salt - 2:24
  3. Crippling Despair - 2:32
  4. Sunlight - 5:24
  5. Unbaptized - 2:07
  6. A Quiet Corner - 2:34
  7. Send Me Down - 4:30
  8. VII - 2:34
  9. She Upon the Black Wolf - 2:52
  10. Bones to Dust - 4:50
  11. Sunset - 4:59


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zorgdrager, Bradley (December 5, 2014). "The Banner - Greying". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 13, 2015.

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