Tune Talk: Into Hell by I Prevail

I've listened to I Prevail for a long time. I think the first time I heard them was My Heart I Surrender from their 2014 album and really during the Punk Goes Pop era when they did Blank Space by Taylor Swift. That's when I heard songs like Scars, Stuck In Your Head, and Alone from their 2016 album Lifelines. 

I was worried when the last song came out after Brian Burkheiser departed from the band. I thought that with how Violent Nature sounded that it was just going to be straight heavy, nothing clean. No don't get me wrong, I actually really liked Violent Nature. It was heavy, catchy, and got stuck in your head, but it didn't feel like I Prevail. It is nice to say though that I was wrong and I am pleasantly surprised. I didn't know Eric Vanlerberghe could do clean vocals like that.

The new song Into Hell is beautiful and it really shows why it's good to see what a band can do when it decides to change. It still doesn't sound exactly the same but That's expected and it's still good. I think after hearing the clean vocals on this and the video of him doing clean vocal live, I'm willing to say this new album has potential to be really good and we'll just have to wait and see. 

Maybe that'll be the case with The Amity Affliction as well, still got mixed feelings about everything there, but I'm starting to see Joel was also trying to do what he could to keep the band alive and maybe the community, maybe I was a little too harsh on him at first.