Defeater " Empty Days, and Sleepless Nights"

This "Warm Blood Rush" starts with abrasive screams and tons of emotion"Dear God, where have you gone?”Your brother is gone in the blink of an eye/That January night, our father lays cold/“Where’re you going to go? You’re only seventeen years old." "Dear Father" has a nice rhythm section and addresses a soldier's son who is going to fight in the army to please his father, and make him proud because there may be no other way. The screaming is perfect because it encapsulates and expresses intense emotion which is experienced in those situations.  I have this thing where some band justs scream to scream for audio aesthetics and that there is no emotion in it,but here you can hear it. A barrage of drums pound as the "Waves Crash, Clouds Roll" with thundering voice, and then it gets into a nice drum pattern and riff as the song sings about an addiction that had killed a friend who needed guidance but thought she had just needed the needle, and the guide had left leaving her to her own devices, or was it because he went to get her more?."Wait for the coward but he never comes/Pray for revenge on him/Steam rises as the boats come in, one by one." The next track has a nice  friendly riff that works with that p*ssed off delivery, and a story about a husband who can barely look at his wife without his gut sinking;after the first time when he met her she was crying and maybe he felt bad, but why does it sink? Guilt? Why? This is "No Kind of Home," and "There’s no bringing him back, f***** buried and dead/But you can’t let go of that hero’s death/You’ve been left with, left with this debt/Couldn’t fight for your country/And your mother is an addict.” Wow the next song has Derek Archambault screaming in the POV of a jeaous boyfriend? Telling someone else if he looks at her again he's dead. He must be under the influence, and by one more drink he will be ready to fight. He goes home and she apologizes, and he left again is what it sound like, but "Her ring lies in the thick red/Your tears swell, and the room spins/“Dear God, what have I done?”/You left her/And he took her/He laid with her/You b******’s son." Then I believe she gets raped and killed. The "Cemetary Walls" have a nice riff and a tale of remorse of thes on who did not fight in the war and sees the two graves there, him wishing it was three, he feels like a disgrace so he drinks most of the time.He comes home and sees his mother sitting in the chair,using again, while holding a cigarette, and looks like death holding that same d*** rosary that will not bring your father home. So he goes out and looks at the sea and when he wakes up in the morning his mother is gone; he can never "Quiet The Longing". This slow beat and screaming vocals now find him out to look for his mother, the last of his family home, he goes in the church and finds her dead in the pew with a needle in her arm"Family plot will be filled/Perfect ending to a tragedy/Put her in cold wet ground/ Finally at peace with her husband now." He looks at the barrel of the gun, hoping soon to be "At Peace." He hears a knock at the door while he's getting closer to pull the trigger, he hears a knock at the door and sees the person who beat him in the fight and then raped and killed his wife. So he takes him by the train tracks where he will die one way or another, and somehow it seems that the tables are turned and now he has the barrel of the gun in the mouth of the soldier's son"You don’t cry, you don’t beg/You’ve been waiting for this/For the coward, or for death/Just to see your wife again." It uses a steady pounding beat and the last minute is silence around the "White Oak Doors." When the next track starts you hear no screaming, but an acoustic guitar and the singing of Archambault, who is dead, "But Breathing." "My little brother, just a newborn baby/In the image of my mother, says he’s a blessing/But not to my father, oh how he hates him/“An undeserving mistake,” He calls him a burden/And I’ve got lots of memories like this one/Of picking sides and picking fights between them/When I think back… to all of it/Well, it’s all too much/Well, it’s all too much when you’re just a little kid." The mother  is broken from the cheating, beating, lying, addiction, and leaving and he callsh is father a b***** that him and his brother admired.ARchambault has a nice voice,but you would not know that from the first10 tracks, and the "Brothers" get out of the house and spend summer days as they should only to be walking on a train track and a train is coming, so they duck on the tracks. with some strings,guitar, and catchy beat. "I Don't Mine" is about a mutual love between two people and that he would wait for her if she would do the same thing for him."And I will never forgive myself for not being there to protect you/I should have been at home instead of out trying to forget you/Just one fight and I’m out the door/What kind of man am I?/I swore I’d never leave your side" recalls that night where she was murdered while he says at reunion "Oh, and please don’t call me baby, it’s just too hard to hear."This is a definite album's album and the songs should be heard in the order intended, so I'm not sure if I want to break it apart, it's a powerful album.