Harm’s Way has gone through many different lineup changes since they formed in Chicago, Illinois during 2006. Their music has also changed drastically from a sludgy, heavy, power-violence sound, to a more hardcore, or metal-core.

Both of these forms of music rely on fast-paced drums and guitars, with nearly a breakdown in every song. Harm’s Way moves to a more mainstream, predictable metal-core style of music with nearly a breakdown in every track on their new album "Posthuman."

It’s clear that at the start of their career the band didn’t want anyone to take their music seriously. Lyrics involving beating up frat boys are featured in their earlier music for example. However, the band seemed to take a more serious approach to their music around 2011 when they released, "Isolation." From that point on, the band seemed to want to take themselves more seriously as a group, and also wanted their fans to do the same.

The first track on this album is supposedly one of the best tracks, but this song was super repetitive. “Human Carrying Capacity” was definitely made to play at the start of one of their live shows, and does not sound as good on an album as I’m sure it does in concert. The second “favorite track” according to iTunes Music is “Become a Machine,” which sounded like it should have been the first song on the album.

The lyrics, “Obey the cycle, become a machine.” are redundant, however, the breakdown around two minutes into the song makes up for it. Toward the end of this, the guitars paired really well with the cymbal crash of the drums.

Track six on this album, “Call My Name” was the final “best” song on this album. This track involved a great heavy guitar, and drum introduction but the lyrics were super frail in comparison. The best part of this song is the breakdown towards the end. My favorite track on this album, “Unreality” follows this song, and has one of the bounciest breakdowns on the album.

Overall, I found tracks six through ten to be the most interesting part of this album, and I often skipped to them before playing the first part of this album. Most of "Posthuman" focuses on heavy instrumentals, rather than impactful lyrics.

Seeing these songs performed in concert would definitely have been a better experience than listening to this album from start to finish. Harms Way was never a band that anyone was supposed to take seriously, so don’t take this album seriously. This received a hard 5 out of 10, and I would buy this album on vinyl.