Thousand Below is a band that always delivers emotion in both their albums and live presence. Touring with bands such as Bless the Fall, Periphery, The Devil Wears Prada and more, Thousand Below can deliver music that appeals to multiple audiences with their sound and the emotion behind it.

Their newest album, Gone in your Wake takes everything we all know and love from their previous catalogue and multiplies it by A Thousand (no pun intended) From the execution of their sound, the emotion behind it, and the lyrics behind the voice, Gone in your Wake can relate to you and give you chills, tears and make you headbang at the same time.

Opening with the track Chemical, it starts off with some semi-heavy riffs before the voice of James takes the spotlight with a tame attitude. Right when its gets into the chorus, everything kicks in at once and has a start that is practically cinematic. If you put this album on the shuffle mode, you would know that this is the opening track. Disassociate comes on next which delivers a nice rhythmic buildup and a much heavier turn. It picks up speed and the clean vocals are high pitched and many different usages of the voice. This song varies more in structure demonstrating the experimental aspects of this group. Fake Smile utilizes a nice clean vocal style to lead you in and almost serves as a ballad but than takes a completely 180 degree turn from that last track. This track has great emotion and the screams at the end later add more edge to the track. When you get to Alone (Out of my Head) has a very powerful and melodic intro that starts it off and the vocals come full range once again. This is the perfect catchy and alternative sound that we all know and love from this group.

We get our first guest performance on The Edge of your Bed, which features Michael McGough of Being as an Ocean. We bring out the acoustic guitars and James and Michael both deliver raw emotion over tame instrumentals. Both vocalists take the spotlight in this track, setting a clear example of what a collaboration is supposed to be like.

Momentum is picked up once again with Vanish. It stars off more slow and melodic but slowly picks up speed and incorporates more screams, range and heaviness. As these changes are incorporated, each part flows to another perfectly. This momentum is maintained with 171 xo, starting off with heavier and melodic riffs but once the vocals kick in, they pull back a little bit and shows the abilities to make a rather soft yet powerful track.

The next track which is Learn to Loose and it all gets Easier, returns to a more tame and soft side and even a tad of a poppy turn, almost kind of like what we heard on the latest Issues record.  This sets a precedent of what is in store for the next record, we get Lost Between, which features Marcus of Northlane, maintains a slower pace which is fairly similar collaborative approach to The Edge of your Bed, but has way more emotion rather than catchiness. It is still fairly electric but still serves as an emotional ballad. The Other Side of Things, brings a little more atmosphere to a slower song and leads right into the title track, Gone in your Wake, serves as a slow and peaceful outro serving as a sonic end to the record. Through its slower end, it still ends on a powerful note.

Thousand Below is a band that has obtained a lot of praise and appealed to many audiences from their previous tours, but with this new record, it represents that they are here to stay. It is straight powerful and raw emotion while having a very polished sound.

Out now via Rise Records