Death Wears You Well delivered an intravenous shot of colossal rage and widescreen emotion into Unfinished Script –

Few releases can be accurately described as cinematically colossal, yet Unfinished Script from Death Wears You Well earns that weight from the instant the first onslaught tears open. The Pennsylvania outfit drags you straight into an atmosphere so immersive it feels as though the walls close in while the emotional floodgates crack. Rage, longing and frustration collide in a full frontal surge, but inside the rancour sits a strange resolve, the kind that aches with purpose. Shimmers of transcendence rise through the heaviness as the band pull together the aesthetics of Alexisonfire and the melodic attack reminiscent of Bullet for My Valentine, forming a nostalgia hit for anyone who finds their sharpest catharsis in the friction between post hardcore instrumentals and the juxtaposition between screamo and harmonic vox. The track lunges forward with a cinematic scope that expands and contracts like an internal storm, leaving the sense that you’ve stepped into a fragmented mind trying to write its way out of collapse.

The members behind the project, Mike Faller, Thomas Lutz, Calvin McCombie and Herald Arturo, build each release as though they are constructing emotional environments rather than conventional metalcore tracks. They draw from metaphor-heavy lyricism, widescreen atmosphere and a form of storytelling that picks apart memory, dissociation, identity rupture and the violence of introspection.

Their sound often feels like a landscape shaped by flooded cities, decaying reflections and long corridors where echoes cling to the walls. That approach positions them at the intersection of cinematic metalcore and atmospheric metalcore, where vicious aggression intersects with something brutally human. Unfinished Script reinforces that identity with unflinching conviction, proving the band’s capacity to turn internal collapse into something immense, immersive and painfully resonant.

Unfinished Script is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast