Review : EVERGREEN TERRACE – “Almost Home”

Evergreen Terrace- “Almost Home”
released September 29th, 2009 on Metal Blade Records

Evergreen Terrace hails from Jacksonville, FL and this is their follow-up to their 2007 album “Wolfbiker”, which received a lot of praise from Outburn. Most songs, except for one, are clean. “Mario Speedwagon” starts out with techno-like drums and the guitar speeds up, approaching thrash-like levels similar to Motorhead with a bit of a melodic hardcore feel thrown in. “Failure To Operate” has more of a wall of sound feel to it with a feel reminiscent of Coalesce. There’s a lot of emphasis on drums for these songs. “Not Good Enough” has a better overall feel to it and is similar in structure to In Flames. Hard to get into most of these songs due to the drums but otherwise, a tight album that is worth a few spins at the least.

FCC: 1,
Try: 2, 6, 7, *11*

01. Enemy Sex
02. Almost Home (III)
03. God Rocky, Is This Your Face
04. We’re Always Losing Blood
05. Sending Signals
06. Mario Speedwagon
07. Failure To Operate
08. Hopelessly Hopeless
09. The Letdown
10. I’m A Bulletproof Tiger
11. Not Good Enough

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