J-Man The second full-length album from Inevitable End is one that, despite its excellent musicianship and eclectic sound, misses the mark significantly due to a few crippling flaws. Don't get me wrong - The Oculus is not a bad album by any means, and it's actually quite good at times. But, nonetheless, it is disappointing to hear an album with this level of potential left unfulfilled thanks to mediocre songwriting and generic riffs. Inevitable End shows plenty of potential on The Oculus, but it will certainly take a more memorable effort until I'm convinced.

Musically, The Oculus is a bit unique. Inevitable End's combination of post-hardcore, modern metalcore, and technical death metal is special in itself, but the way the band manages to blend all of these influences together in a dissonant concoction is arguably their biggest selling point. Although I wouldn't really say this is the most "inspired" effort I've ever heard, it's much less generic than most modern metalcore and that's a plus as well. The Oculus's main downfall rests in the hands of the unmemorable songwriting - it's interesting enough while you're experiencing it, but right when the album ends it becomes difficult to pick out more than one or two riffs. Inevitable End is so focused on creating crazy, dissonant songs that they seem to have forgotten to make the compositions feel even slightly coherent or decipherable.

The Oculus ultimately falls a bit short of my expectations due to the messy songwriting, but I will certainly applaud Inevitable End for creating something different from the norm of most modern metalcore. Unfortunately, that's only so important when the compositions are this forgettable. With a few improvements in the songwriting department, Inevitable End may have something great up their sleeves... but The Oculus certainly is not that. The most I can give here is 2.5 stars.

The Block The Oculus is the second release by Swedish metalcore act Inevitable End. Released by Relapse Records in May, this album brings nothing new to the table and hardly ever differs from your normal run of the mill metalcore. Like most albums of the same genre The Oculus runs a pretty short time, 35 minutes, compared to the number of songs on the album, 13. In a way this helps the album because if I had to listen to this for a longer time, it definitely wouldn’t get as high of a score.

Right from the start of the album all the way to the end, Inevitable End throws everything at you, with heavy riffs, screaming vocals, and lots of distortion. After a while it’s very easy to get tired of the album, mainly because all the songs sound similar and follow the same structure. First comes the screaming vocals, though sometime they are death growls, then some dissonant chords followed by distortion, and this trend continues throughout the whole album. I find myself wanting to turn it off by at least halfway through the album just out of pure boredom.

What saves this album is the musicianship, not the creativity. There is no doubt that Inevitable End has some very talented players in it, it’s just that they need to branch off a bit, and do something that no one else has done before; then they will release something that is worth buying. But until then they get 2.5 stars for this release.

UMUR "The Oculus" is the 2nd full-length studio album by Swedish death/ metalcore/ post-hardcore act Inevitable End. The album was released in May 2011 by Relapse Records.

The music on the album is a combination of many genres and genre elements. The vocals definitely have a "core" quality and sound to them. They are mostly of the screaming and shouting varity but there are some deeper death grunts in the music too. The music is generally very technical and dissonant chords, time-signature changes and challenging song-structures are prominant features in the band´s sound. When the band are most brutal they are on the technical deathcore side of things but they also have a definite post-hardcore edge to their music and sometimes I´m heavily reminded of an act like Converge. The professional and powerful production gives the music the right punch and sound.

I´m not sure I hear anything on "The Oculus" that I haven´t already heard elsewhere, but there´s no denying that the music is very well written, produced and performed. I´d say a 3.5 star rating is deserved.