Like Throwdown, Killswitch Engage and fellow Connecticut troupe Hatebreed, Bury Your Dead goes straight for the jugular on Cover Your Tracks, a bloodcurdling exercise in death metal.
Gore meets 'core front and center as guitars collide with a relentless bass drum thump on the band's Victory Records debut, as lead throat Mat Bruso gargles his way through bruising, maniacal funeral marches like "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Mission: Impossible." All of the song titles are nicked from Tom Cruise movies -- "Top Gun," "Losin' It" and "The Color of Money" are a few more -- but the emotional quotient is almost always grim, baring little resemblance to the aforementioned films.
Most often, BYD takes aim at nay-sayers and greedy, promiscuous women with hate and vengeance on its collective mind.
Cathartic as it may be, Cover Your Tracks is a joyless experience, but if this kind of threatening, disturbing musical presentation is your bag, BYD do it about as well as any of the aforementioned.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Top Gun | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:19 | 5 MB | 17 MB |
| 2 | Vanilla Sky | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:23 | 5 MB | 18 MB |
| 3 | Eyes Wide Shut | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:33 | 5 MB | 18 MB |
| 4 | Magnolia | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:47 | 6 MB | 21 MB |
| 5 | The Outsiders | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:15 | 5 MB | 16 MB |
| 6 | The Color of Money | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:35 | 5 MB | 20 MB |
| 7 | Risky Business | Bury Your Dead | Play | 04:25 | 10 MB | 35 MB |
| 8 | Legend | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:22 | 5 MB | 18 MB |
| 9 | All the Right Moves | Bury Your Dead | Play | 03:00 | 6 MB | 21 MB |
| 10 | Losin' It | Bury Your Dead | Play | 01:14 | 2 MB | 9 MB |
| 11 | Mission- Impossible | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:43 | 6 MB | 21 MB |
| 12 | Mission- Impossible 2 | Bury Your Dead | Play | 02:32 | 5 MB | 20 MB |
| 31 mins | 71 MB | |||||
| 31 mins | 241 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mat Bruso | Member of Attributed Artist, Vocals |
| 2 | Bury Your Dead | Primary Artist |
| 3 | Richard Casey | Bass Instrument, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 4 | Mark Castillo | Drums, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 5 | Alan Douches | Mastering |
| 6 | Matthew Ellard | Audio Production, Mixing, Producer |
| 7 | Erica Ellis | Guitar, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 8 | Slim | Guitar, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 9 | Adam Wentworth | Layout Design |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |