Sunrise is a metal/hardcore band from Poland who have been around since 1995. ‘Traces To Nowhere’ is their fourth album and third label change. In the first line I said metal/hardcore, because metalcore doesn’t seem to do complete justice to the music at hand. The music is very much hardcore oriented and thus energetic, there’s the odd metal riff from time to time. The metal ingredient is more of a mixture of Slayer-like heavy metal and Lamb Of God-like modern metal. Ah hell, it´s metalcore. Also, a comparison to Maroon and Born From Pain is in order. No you goddamn idiot, not those Maroon 5 jerk-offs, go watch Disney movies.

The first song, ‘Born Free Die Free’, starts of blistering with even some death-metal bassed double-kick drums, mixed very nicely into the ensemble. It’s catchy and incredibly fierce. Pat the vocalist has a great raw grunt/scream voice that fits the blistering riffs and blasting drums perfectly. In song two ‘Coma Is Over’, we have the first guitarsolo. A good, heavy metal one, and it doesn’t disrupt the flow of the song. Song three is a logical follow-up to number two. Then, the title track is up.
‘Traces To Nowhere’ is another incredibly energetic and pacey metalcore song with great riffs to which you can’t help making an angry face (the injustice!) and (almost) trying to scream along. Then, towards the end, there’s a really smart and beautiful melodic piece: no singing, just two guitars, one playing a solo over the other’s main riff, backed-up by soft drumming. A great way to prevent the listener from getting a headache or bleeding ears from all the energy and noise.

This part makes apparent that the band also has good musical knowledge. The halfway-song ‘Compromise Zero’ is the same energetic, heavy, paceful type of song as the first three. Nothing special, just a good song. I’ll wrap it up for all you people with little time:
‘Beyond Insanity’: great, with a nice, almost subtle intro.
‘Scream Bloody Murder’: fantastic, catchy scream along,
‘Undercover Enemy’: Fast, heavy, with a Slayer-type solo in the middle
‘Smiling Bag’: A slower, low-riffed album-closer. Great music, beautiful solo. Slow-paced anger. This is the way albums are supposed to end.

I could go on and on and I usually do, but, this album is simply awesome. Sunrise deserves buckets of respect and money for ‘Traces To Nowhere’. They, along with producer Robert Srzednicki, have put together something special. The raw but not completely unpolished sound; the diverse energetic, heavy riffs (and solo’s); the magnifying drums; the vocals and bass (audible at times)that are exactly what they should be… Everything just comes together.
Sunrise deserves buckets of respect and money for ‘Traces To Nowhere’. In a fair world, this album would sell a couple hundred thousand copies, so why not bring justiceto the world?? Leave Christina and Britney in the store and buy this album. That is, if you are into metal and hardcore or when you are a metalcore-fan. Do not buy this album when ‘This Love’ is your favourite song of the year.