We came as Romans enters your world with their second longplayer “Understanding what we’ve grown to be”. Ready to rock your world with their metalcore. Metalcore – crossover of a new generation. A fusion of hardcore punk like AFI and extreme metal. The band match the klischeé and is a perfect protagonist of this genre. They deliver emotional, melodic choruses for the girls as well as harsh, grunnting parts inbetween for the boys.

Their story began back in 2005. The debut was released in 2009, followed by countless concerts. With their passion for touring and performing, We came as Romans could easily gain a fast growing crowd of fans. With the new album the band stick to their very own mixture of Metalcore, while the themes have literally grown up with them. Struggles with life and challenges of adolescents infects the whole arrangement of the songs.

The opener “Mis//Understanding” starts off straight and heavy, lives on a pushing forward, ecstatically energy before singer and keyboarder Kyle Pavone is hanging in more and more with his charismatic punk-pop voice to the end. Contrary to this in “Everything as planned” the gentle, soft parts are dominating. The sweet melodies capture and slowy send you dreaming. Just as you start to drift away with the rythmn, David Stevens voice cuts in again like a shockwave. Pumping up your blood, shouting out loud the anger until it flows back to the smooth beginnings. Furtheron the CD continues in the same manner. Its these juxtaposition of bright, jubilant choruses and bridges and the frustration or breakdowns, marked by David’s fierce screams and moshing guitars that give We came as Romans’s new record its characteristical shape. Musically and lyrically the band itself - as mentioned before - has grown up, holding a much darker tone than their previous album. Sometimes with more brutal metal outbursts, sometimes less. But always with a fragile, sensitive core.

Overall you can feel the inner conflicts and the passionate, life approaching joy. Whereas the quick turn-overs seems quite disturbing at first, these dramatical effects becomes soon familiar and natural. Even if those emotional parts differs extremely, the mergence is flawless. More and more you grasp when another heavy entry builds up and burts in the electronic elements. A flowing, constant change between two worlds - underlined and guided by the strong guitar riffs. A connection to all these life-changing experiences of grown ups, giving you an idea of how it feels like or sending you back to your own history.