Feast for Crows

Personnel: Pete Rutcho (programming).Audio Mixer: Pete Rutcho.Recording information: The Brick Hithouse.Photographer: Taylor Foiles.A little over a year after issuing their debut album, Darker Shades of White -- a mixed bag of metalcore with somewhat immature songwriting and a meld of harsh and melodic vocals -- Christian metallers Corpus Christi are back with an almost entirely new lineup, and a record that clearly lays waste to its predecessor. The lineup change -- four out of five members, only guitarist/melodic vocalist Jarrod Christman remains -- is reflected most in the sounds coming from harsh-vocal frontman Max O'Conell and the wildly versatile drum attack of Andrew Poling. After the de rigeur atmospheric intro of "The Red Horse Is Upon Us," the band roars to life in "A Portrait of Modern Greed." The twin guitar attack of Christman's rhythmic riffing and Derek Ayres' knotty, blistering fills and leads are underscored by how often Poling shifts his focus from crucial blastbeats