Legion Woke

2013, There's no doubting Legion's heaviness. On its debut full-length, the young, Columbus, Ohio-bred five-piece does its best to irreparably damage listener's eardrums with a death metal-leaning style of burly metalcore reminiscent of The Acacia Strain and Oceano. The band adds to this enough weedly Morbid Angel riffs (,,He Became Death") and Meshuggahesque stop-starts (,,Righteous Dictation") to keep the music interesting and not just intense. What's not so interesting are frontman Michael Guilford's monotonously low-gurgling vocals, which, in their own way, have as little emotional content to them as any plastic pop stars' autotuned chirp.