When Motionless In White<\/a> first emerged in 2004, they seemed to know exactly who they were aesthetically, but not so much musically. All too often, it seemed their gothic\/nu metal<\/a>\/industrial blend was an enthusiastic cut and paste from other bands, and while there\u2019s nothing wrong with having influences, it often left the Pennsylvanians looking like they were still searching for a sonic identity of their own.<\/p>\n 2022\u2019s Scoring The End Of The World album got them close to that goal, but while they\u2019ll always doff a cap to Korn<\/a>, Slipknot<\/a> and Rob Zombie, on their seventh album, Decades, they\u2019ve finally learned to harness that admiration and make it their own.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Take single Playing God: while it rides in on a torrent of maniacal drums like an early 2000s Slipknot cut, sinister synths ensure it\u2019s identifiable as the product of its creators. It\u2019s also the heaviest Motionless In White have ever sounded, with some additional heft coming from an almost comically aggressive performance from Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor<\/a> \u2013 who must have relished the opportunity to rage against the superficiality of social media.<\/p>\n Latest Videos From Louder<\/p>\n Corey and Motionless singer Chris Cerulli bring the song to a close with a bang, issuing the year\u2019s most disdainful mosh call: \u2018Grovel like a bitch on your knees for the applause \/ Lick the fucking dirt off my boots like a good dog\u2019, but the point is it doesn\u2019t sound like a Slipknot song \u2013 a pitfall you suspect Motionless In White would have fallen into only a few years ago.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, All That I\u2019ve Ever Known and Blood Rave turn up the incorporation of cyber-synths. The former is a volcanic landscape of glitches, squeals and drops, the latter is a tranced-up dance number and Fight Like Hell revisits the \u2018This is my brutality!\u2019 bellow from Demon In Your Dreams, otherwise known as WWE wrestler Rhea Ripley\u2019s 2022 theme song. It all feels like the first Motionless album that isn\u2019t a game of Spot The Band.<\/p>\n The horror element the band do so well is in full force here too and it\u2019s presented with a slashed-lipstick smirk, such as on the opening title track, where Chris gleefully tells his haters: \u2018Still here, count the years, fuck a tombstone.\u2019 It sounds like Motionless In White are having fun, revelling in profane, dark humour. Love At First Bite is awash with spooky, Halloweeny keys and tongue-in-cheek statements: \u2018I\u2019m a sucker for a good time.\u2019<\/p>\n Of course, it also helps that Chris Ceruli has become a second-to-none vocalist and frontman. His performance on Afraid Of The Dark, which smashes throwback 2000s-era metalcore riffs with a stomping, demonic breakdown, pushes his range to the very limit. He paints himself as an eternally suffering romantic on vampiric electro-ballad R.I.P., featuring pop\/hip-hop artist Skylar Grey, and puts in a deliciously smooth croon on a wonderfully goth cover of Corey Hart\u2019s dark 80s classic, Sunglasses At Night.<\/p>\n It all adds up to the most impressive Motionless In White album so far \u2013 fun, memorable, satisfying and, most importantly, it feels like them.<\/p>\n This review was taken from the upcoming issue of Metal Hammer, available to order from Thursday (July 23). Decades is out now via Roadrunner. Motionless In White will tour North America from July to November.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can trust Louder Our experienced team has worked for some of the biggest brands in music. 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