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CD Review: When Love Met Destruction by Motionless In White

The Band: Motionless In White

The Album: When Love Met Destruction

Stand Out Track(s): “Ghost In The Mirror”

Label: Tragic Hero Records/Fearless Records

The Review:The CD opens up with the song “To Keep From Getting Burned” starts off with the keyboard in the background blending in with the heavy guitars amongst the screaming that’s taking place. At first I thought it was going to be one of those songs where the band just screams throughout the entire thing and it gives you a headache, but not until 30 seconds into the song does the squeaky vocals of singer Chris Ceruli unexpectedly emerge and the screaming stops. From that point, the guitars and drumming picks up speed and the tone of the song goes from dreary to uplifting (even though the lyrics are still unsettling as Ceruli sings “Everything that you ever loved/Will be taken away/From the moment you shut your eyes). Throughout the first track, a crazy guitar riff transitions the song back and forth between screaming and singing, and it’s not until the end of the song where the guitar-riff-transition isn’t used and the vocals switch back and forth from singing to screaming saying “Lovet will kill us all.”

The second track “Ghost In The Mirror,” comes on next and starts off screaming “Ghost In The Mirror” and then the singer asks the question “So tell me dear/Can your heart still break/If it’s already stopped beating?” and repeatedly asks this question throughout the chorus. The overall song is rather sad, and as the song reaches its midpoint, the tone of the song gets darker to match the mood, and the guitars get heavier and Ceruli sings “I curse the day/I let you in.” Then at the end of the song, it uses gang vocals to sing “This is horror, this is sin, we are evil, we are death.”

“Whatever You Do…Don’t Push The Red Button” is the third track and has the heaviest amount of screaming on it. The reason they’re probably screaming so much on this song is because they don’t want you to understand their lyrics about doing a dead girl (but then again, you can always just look at the lyric booklet, so who knows).

After listening to that, “Destroying Everything” comes on. This song consists of heavy breakdowns, gang vocals singing “Destorying Everything” and then another set of gang vocals midway in between the song that has an eery vibe, crazy guitar riffs, fast drums, and I’m pretty sure I heard an organ in the background toward the end of amongst the repetitive screaming of “Oh my god.” It’s five minutes of music delivered in an epic manner.

Track four is titled “Billy In 4-C Never Saw It Coming,” and starts off slow with dark guitar and then the music picks up, and the transition between screaming and singing takes place until about halfway through the song, where Ceruli proclaims “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” After that, a weird noise that sounds like a battery dying on some kind of electronic device comes on, and then the music gets slow, harsh, and eery from that point on.

The last song on “When Love Met Destruction,” is “The Seventh Circle.,” which is about giving up on your dreams as the singer says “Place these dreams in the palm of your hand and crush them to dust/I’m reaching out for a hand that no longer extends.”

“When Love Met Destruction,” is creepy, but in a good way. Motionless In White oozes with such raw emotion in all their songs, and I’m sure seeing them live would be an unforgettable experience. Be sure to take a listen to their music before writing them off as just another screamo band because they’re so much more than that.