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His Name Was Yesterday Witness to a Dying World www.myspace.com/hisnamewasyesterday Let me preface this review by saying this – there is more to come. If you listened to Witness to a Dying World and like me, it left you wanting more, don't worry because I'm sure His Name Was Yesterday has more tricks up their sleeve. When I think of His Name Was Yesterday for some reason I tend to think of that awful Buffalohelpwanted.com radio commercial. The reason being is because the websites ad slogan, 'long name, amazing results,' could be said about His Name Was Yesterday, and their thunderous debut, Witness to a Dying World. This entire effort is frenzied; swirling guitars, massive drum work and some of the better vocals (frontman John has an excellent blend of pure singing ability and thrashing screams) that I have heard in this genre of metal as of late. Witness to a Dying World shines in a few different places throughout its six-track tenure, but maybe not as bright as the back-to-back combo of Valley of Ashes and the Ghost of John Wayne. I would've like to have seen these guys try their hand at a ballad, much like what Five Finger Death Punch did with The Bleeding, but I need to keep telling myself that Witness to a Dying World is only the beginning, and just a taste of what this talented quintet is capable of. Even though it is merely an EP, Witness to a Dying World has to catapult His Name Was Yesterday into the upper echelon of Buffalo metal. They may just be in their infancy so to speak, but they are pretty damn good, and all you have to do is listen to this EP to know that. In this critic's eye, Witness to a Dying World is a surefire homerun, but I'm not going to rush into things and crown them the 'next big thing' or this or that, but His Name Was Yesterday could very well turn out to be Buffalo's next It Dies Today.