Review by Saxy S for I Prevail - True Power (2022)

The new album from I Prevail has the hybrid of sounds from a number of different nu metal, metalcore and industrial elements, but is unable to coalesce these elements into anything greater than the sum of its parts. I know a lot of fans will listen to the rapping on this record and will get a little bit squeemish, but it's not all that horrible, especially by nu metal standards. Sure, the triplet flows that close out "Self-Destruction" are out of place, but that does not happen on the rest of the album. In fact, one of the albums better tracks, "FWYTYK", is billed from the start as a rap rock song with a solid build up to a mostly satisfying finish.

Stylistically, the record sounds like a hybrid of your typical Spiritbox worship mixed in with the huge eight string guitar breakdowns of a Mick Gordon video game soundtrack. When you put all of these pieces together, True Power is an album that can hit like a truck, but not consistently, and not in the moments when I Prevail expects you to get hit. Credit to the band for experimenting with sounds and willing to step outside of their comfort zone, but this is not doing it for me. I Prevail have a sound that is promising, but misses the mark structurally in more than enough ways to really hold it back from anything other than mediocre.

Best Songs: There's Fear In Letting Go, Fake, FWYTYK, The Negative