Album Review: Bury Tomorrow – The Seventh Sun (Music For Nations)

Following a divisive lineup change for Bury Tomorrow they bring us their brand new offering “The Seventh Sun.” I am well versed with Bury Tomorrow’s work, following them since their 2016 contribution “Earthbound.” An album I enjoy heavily.

They kick things off with the aptly titled “The Seventh Sun.” A classic Bury Tomorrow opener, with a ferocious breakdown and fantastic choruses ladled without. Everything you should come to expect from them. Quickly following up with the absolutely soul crushing “Abandon Us.” Simply put – a banger, wild palm muted 1’s and 0’s and huge bass drops. Abandon Us is wonderfully heavy and everything I want to hear from Bury Tomorrow in 2023. 

“Begin Again” is perhaps less of what I want to hear. I thought maybe with the removal of their golden voiced angel last year they would have maybe tried to step in a new direction out of their comfort zone. But this isn’t that. Begin Again is a worthy effort with some spine tingling riffs but it maybe doesn’t have enough heart in it.

Forced Divide dips into territory of deathcore. Bury Tomorrow’s vocalist is wonderfully talented in his range, his highs are fantastic and they are really put to the test here. This is a tune for a live gig, I can visualise this tearing up a circle pit in the middle of the roundhouse. Definitely a track to listen to sitting at 3:28 in runtime. Hot on its tail is Boltcutter, one of the singles that I’ve already had the pleasure of familiarising myself with. This track is safe, in that they don’t step too far out of that undeniably comfortable metalcore sound. It’s got riffs and a catchy enough chorus but it’s filler. 

Slowing down the pace a pinch is the intro to “Wrath.” This of course quickly changes and starts to harp to that Earthbound(y) sound of Bury Tomorrow in 2016 that I am more akin to. It’s fast and heavy and has some fantastic clean singing from their new secondary vocalist. It does feel like it should end halfway through but it catches my attention with some fantastic synth work which is tucked into the mix really nicely. This feels like a track to end the album on, honestly. Finishing off the whole track with some beautiful strings. A cracking effort from Bury Tomorrow.

Majesty is a gorgeous track – the discorded piano and ambient noise combined with some wonderful strings is a really nice thing to have in an album full of horrible disgusting noises. I love a transitory track and this feels like everything I want from that. It quickly devolves into more of what we’d expect, huge gang vocals and violins build this track up massively.

Heretic featuring Loz Taylor is here – truth be told – anything with Loz Taylor in it is gonna get a fair few listens from me. I was very, very excited to see While She Sleeps and Bury Tomorrow finally collaborate in any form and this song proves that it was something to be excited for. This song absolutely *slaps* – I am using that comment at that ultimate dismay of my Father. Loz’s feature is huge and I massively love how Loz and Dani bounce off each other in that second verse. The chorus here is wonderful, once again having Tom and Dani bounce off each other like they were having an argument. I massively recommend checking out the music video, if your stomach can take it. 

Recovery has huge boots to fill following off of that huge track. In the age of bands using synths to elevate their sound, notably Modern Error who Bury Tomorrow collaborated with last year – I do love to hear bands embracing it so heavily. This song is much more of what you have come to expect from Bury Tomorrow. It isn’t a bad thing at all, but fatigue from listening to so many similar sounding songs can and is starting to set in around this point. The breakdown is so-so.

Next is “Care” coming in as the shortest song in the album – it instantly curb stomps your skull into the closest table or pavement it can find. It quickly devolves into a catchy – but equally as heavy chorus. This tune quickly finds itself at one of my personal top Bury Tomorrow songs – it’s very good!

Very quickly I find myself at the last track of this album, “The Carcass King.” I’m expecting a big song to send off the album and I very happily receive what I’ve asked for. It feels like an absolutely huge, disjointed effort of everything they’ve done so far in this album. It’s mixed wonderfully and I notice so much in this mix. As a song it is messy, but I’m a huge fan here.

Listen to this album if you like Bury Tomorrow or metalcore. I’m sure you’ll find yourself a fan of something they’ve got to offer here.

Bury Tomorrow – The Seventh Sun Full Tracklisting
The Seventh Sun
Abandon Us
Begin Again
Forced Divide
Boltcutter
Wrath
Majesty
Heretic
Recovery
Care
The Carcass King

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