Veil Of Maya's Eclipse is Damn Good

I'm definitely a bit late on this one.

I've liked deathcore since I found out about it in the tenth grade, showing my friend Sam the first As Blood Runs Black video (My Fears Have Become Phobias) instead of doing any actual work in my Multimedia studies class.
It wasn't a big deal, though, because our teacher was more lenient than a sugar cane in gale winds. That is so say, he bent and swayed with our grades like Michael Phelps' coach does with weed intake.
Pot joke.

Anyway, one of the few bands that I've been following from the beginning of my stint into the more destructive side of the musical spectrum is Veil of Maya. They've been consistently heavy while still managing to keep me interested with technical, melodic riffs and original material since their demo.
The first time I heard their "debut", full-length album (The Common Man's Collapse), the orgasmic and sexually confusing love was immediate. Since then, few bands have been able to match their talent, at least in my eyes, and still they remain one of my favourite bands to date. I even mailed away for a shirt; I haven't done that since I bought my own from my store (this isn't a shameless plug and I'm not fucking my own mouth but in case you're curious here it is).
Their newest album (circa 2012 for your late ass if it's late), Eclipse, has managed to deliver with the same intensity as the past three, while managing to keep a fresh sound and slowly adding more and more melody into the lines between the songs (reading is for losers, listening is for bosses).
If I had to criticize one element, it would be that the low, guttural exhales from the vocalist seem to be higher than in the past, which by comparison is weak, but on its own still very, very strong and independent.
I'm a big fan of guttural exhale, and a proprietor of the low inhale (among three or four others on the entire planet; believe it or not, if it sounds good, anyone who complains is a whiny puss who is trying to impress the people AROUND them and not themselves). For that reason, I've stuck to pig squeals longer than just about every one of my friends.
The greatest part about Eclipse, and VoM as a whole, is that they've never needed the raspy inhale to be as brutal as those who use it. I don't want to act as the authority on the subject; I'm just as fallible and human as anyone else. I like what I like, and my point is that even without such a staple of deathcore infamy, Veil of Maya manage to bring the pain relentlessly.

I'm proud of Veil of Maya, I always have been. Eclipse has made me even more so.
Keep it up doods.