Influences and Musical Style
The band's music has featured and has been classified under musical styles like melodic death metal, melodic metalcore, heavy metal and even metalcore.
The band's influences include, In Flames, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Soilwork, At The Gates, King Diamond, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, Cannibal Corpse, and Arch Enemy. Oli Herbert mentioned his biggest influence on guitar is Andy LaRocque of King Diamond.
In response to the "metalcore" label the band has often been classified under, Phil Labonte said
| “ | We are a modern metal band, is really the best way to say it, you know. Because we've got solos, we've got harmonies, we've got some of the kind of breakdown-y .But, I mean, if you look at us as a Metalcore band and then you look at, say, you know, Hatebreed as a Metalcore band, which a lot of people say Hatebreed is a Metalcore band because they've got some sort of metal-y riffs. But it's like we sound nothing alike. | ” |
However, the band's guitarist Mike Martin has rejected the "metalcore" label saying "Yeah, we’re not Christian and we’re not metalcore, so tell the people on the message board to stop calling us that."
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