Death for Life

Personnel: Efrem Shulz (vocals); Dan Palmer, Dan Palmer, Tito (guitar, background vocals); Scott Gilman (strings, programming); Tyler Rebbe (bass guitar, background vocals); Todd Hennig, Todd Hennig (drums, background vocals); Derek Whitacre (sampler); Tyler Rebbe (background vocals).Audio Mixer: Factory.Recording information: Sound City; The Scene; Ton Recording.On Death for Life, Death By Stereo continue to fuel their hardcore-derived stutter with the tenets of metal and thrash. Vocalist Efrem Shulz channels hardcore's urgency on "I Give My Life" and "Forget Regret," but the songs also feature stinging guitar solos right out of the heavy metal handbook, and the latter is close to early Faith No More. Even with all of this, as well as Shulz's always overdone vocals, Death for Life is more streamlined than a lot of metalcore records. It's like there needs to be a surplus of manic creativity to get that specialized designation, to the point that songs are a little too crammed with their