Walls of Jericho – With Devils Amongst Us All / 2006 Trustkill / 11 Tracks / http://www.wallsofjericho.tv / http://www.trustkill.com / Reviewed 15 August 2006

I’ve heard a lot about Walls of Jericho, but I had never heard any of their music until I received this copy of “With Devils Amongst Us All”. There is a lot of the same style of hardcore screaming that has been present in every second album that I have received for the last three or four years, but the rub is that Walls of Jericho have added a little bit to each of their compositions on “With Devils Amongst Us All” to differentiate themselves from other acts.

The breakdown that has the lead singer almost talking at the beginning of it is a nice innovation of Walls of Jericho. The band has taken hints from the tough guy hardcore of the nineties and also from a number of rock bands from around that period. Walls of Jericho are an act that has little problems assuming another style into their amorphous body. While the band is playing a style of music that is pretty much dead and buried, Walls of Jericho shows that there is still some energy in that lumbering giant during “With Devils Amongst Us All”. The band never lets their listeners stop for a breath of air or anything.

During songs like “I Know Hollywood and You Ain’t It”, the band just lets their guitars create wonderful feedback during a drum track, to keep pushing their metal-edged hardcore down anyone who is listening in’s throats. The band has been around a few years, but the only time that the band shows their age in the maturity of these compositions. If anything, the band actually knowing what they want from their compositions have allowed Walls of Jericho to come out with even more furious songs on “With Devils Amongst Us All”. “And Hope To Die” even throws in a little bit of Korn in their guitar influence to the eclectic mix that is Walls of Jericho; there is a reason why the act is continually tied with bands like Converge as some of the most influential in the hardcore scene. The band has just released this album, but I want more. “With Devils Amongst Us All” might just get me to pick up the previous releases by Walls of Jericho; here’s to hoping that the band is half as intense on those albums as they currently are on this disc. Give this disc a go, regardless of what you’ve heard about the band.

Top Tracks: Plastic, The Haunted

Rating: 6.7/10

[JMcQ]