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Every Time I Die's Bleak And Beautiful Love Letter To Buffalo

The fervid and desperate "Map Change" is set to the strip clubs, abandoned churches and bingo halls that make up the metalcore band's New York hometown.
A still from Every Time I Die's "Map Change" video.

Every Time I Die's is fierce and emotionally wrought, the kind of album made when faced by mortality. Vocalist Keith Buckley's then-pregnant wife was focuses the band's desperation.

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