UMUR "To the Weight of All Things" is the debut full-length studio album by Australian death metal/ deathcore act Hiroshima Will Burn. The album was released in 2009 by Skull And Bones/ Lacerated Enemy. The band was formed in 2005 and released a demo in 2006. Hiroshima Will Burn split-up shortly after the release of "To the Weight of All Things".

The music on the album is technical death metal with deathcore elements. We´re talking constantly über technical and fast scale shredding, a vocalist that varies his delivery between deep growls and higher pitched aggressive vocals, insanely fast precision drumming and a songwriting approach that puts more weight on technical detail than catchiness and memorability. The album only contains 8 tracks and a full playing time of 31:37 minutes. 7 of the tracks are of the above described kind while the instrumental track "Laberinto" is the only break from the very demanding "regular" style. "Laberinto" is quite the challenging piece too, but the track features less distortion and no vocals, so it´s a nice little breather.

The production is professional and suits the style well. Triggered drums and a generally well defined soundscape.

"To the Weight of All Things" has a lot of good things going for it, and the fact that Hiroshima Will Burn are technically skilled musicians, who play the extremely technical music with ease, doesn´t exactly drag my rating down. What does drag my rating down slightly is the dominant focus on technical playing over memorability, that means that even after many listens the songs don´t stand out from each other. The many, many scale runs that are featured on the album more or less sound the same after a while. Had the band incorporated a melodic element to those scale runs, the music would have been a bit more accessible. I´m sure fans of the über technical death metal/ core genre will greatly enjoy this release though and overall I think a 3 - 3.5 star rating is warranted.