It's done fully with clean singing (as one would expect – this is no Six Feet Under-esque interpretation). The only time you'll really get to hear what Riley McShane is capable of in the clean singing department for any length is during Subdivisions, a Rush cover song that was initially supposed to be a bonus track but ended up closing the album instead.
Musically this is a natural progression on from the previous album, with even less melodic death metal elements, which has resulted in their longest and most adventurous album to date music that is now somewhat progressive as well as technical. Fortunately Allegaeon have found one Riley McShane (also of acts such as Continuum and Son of Aurelius) who not only brings decent growls with him, but also an ability to sing cleanly.Īfter Elements of the Infinite displayed a lower amount of melodic death metal influence compared to what went before, having a vocalist who can sing cleanly doesn't mean that Allegaeon have brought it back on Proponent for Sentience (2016), which is their fourth full-length album. For me the growled vocals can make or break a death metal act, so Haynes was always going to be a tough act to follow. While it would be easy to say that a band that exclusively uses growled vocals can replace a vocalist easily I personally think that's a major misconception. Having made three albums, the most recent of which was Elements of the Infinite (2014), the US melodic technical death metal act Allegaeon parted ways with their vocalist Ezra Haynes.
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