REVIEW: Girl of Glass - Some Words Were Never Enough [2026]
Artist: Girl of Glass
Album: Some Words Were Never Enough
It does feel like—for the last year or so maybe—I’ve been starting just about every review for a deathcore project with an opinion about the MySpace revival. Granted, the last year or so has brought the entire “movement” to a fever pitch, with no end to the resurgence of early 2000s deathcore repurposed and injected into modernity—often to relative success. In the context of the MySpace revival, one has to consider Girl of Glass as one of the most authentic and pragmatic artists in the resurgence. Created less as a reason to repurpose Suicide Silence The Cleansing-era breakdowns (though the namesake and comparisons aren’t for nothing) and more as a stark, true example of hardcore, DIY ethos meeting head-on with pummeling death metal brutality, Girl of Glass are a “revival” band not to chase nostalgia but rather by virtue of the type of deathcore they make and the means by which they deliver it to the masses—and Some Words Were Never Enough is the proof. Featuring a whirlwind of vicious riffs and pulverizing breakdowns across eight songs, Some Words Were Never Enough is an outstanding example of the only passable type of revivalism—the type where old-school and traditional sounds, styles and ethos are rejuvenated and continued in a contemporary sound space.
Rooted in the elements that made Despised Icon, Suicide Silence, Oceano and more massive underground successes with their debut material, Girl of Glass’ Some Words Were Never Enough is an instrumental juggernaut that expertly blends elements of death metal and hardcore to make strong, authentic deathcore. While introductory cut “This is the Tragedy” and “MoreKnifeThanBack” are crushing by virtue of tremendous, ten-ton breakdowns, songs like lead single “Third Knives the Charm” and “Another Day Another Knife” see Girl of Glass take a riff-heavy approach to visceral and relentless deathcore, blending fun and bouncy riffs with two-step segments bound to ignite dance floors nationwide. “Another Day Another Knife” is perhaps among the best examples of this—a track that starts and ends with gargantuan, heavy-handed breakdowns that rapidly segues into an immolating riff propelled by quick, tight blast beats and a rollicking, crunchy bass tone. This instrumental dynamism is nothing new—as tracks like “Heart Upon Stone” and “Son Devouring His Saturn” exemplified the band’s instrumental prowess well on their debut EP, but are revisited and updated on Some Words Were Never Enough. Despite these songs being somewhere between two and three years old at this juncture, the rejuvenated versions fit seamlessly alongside the outfit’s newer songs, hitting just as hard—if not harder—than ever, and serve as a seamless transition into the second and more current half of Some Words Were Never Enough.
Where Girl of Glass separate themselves the most from many of their contemporaries is with their vocal element—and perhaps more precisely, their lyrical content. Combining bitterness, anguish and an unsatisfied thirst for violence with more complex emotions akin to yearning, grief and self-hatred, Some Words Were Never Enough draw comparisons outside of the usual “Big Four” of MySpace Revival—We Are the End, Animosity and Needlework/Gallows-era Emmure come to mind. This comparison becomes obvious on “Son Devouring His Saturn,” featuring We Are the End’s Spencer Aragon, but also rears its head on the moments within “Another Day Another Knife” and “MoreKnifeThanBack” where primal bloodlust cracks and elements of something deeper and more introspective seep through and into the listener’s ears. Not only this, but listeners get one of the first deathcore straight-edge anthems I can think of since The World We Knew’s “The Write Off” on “xEND OF DAYSx (Where’s Nick Stacy?),” a song that has been circulating for some time as a demo B-side but now reaps the benefit of a fully-produced album appearance. In short, Some Words Were Never Enough is a vocal powerhouse with more than meets the eyes from a lyrical perspective—an album superficially focused on knives, stabbing and outright violence ultimately stands out as more than one cut above the standard lyrical fare offered from most contemporary deathcore projects.
Independent of buzzwords like revival, MySpace, “OG,” and more, Girl of Glass’ Some Words Were Never Enough is an outstanding example of the traditional death-metal-brutality-meets-hardcore-ethos that allowed deathcore to thrive 20+ years ago. Frantic riffs, lacerating blast beats, ground-shattering breakdowns and leviathan vocals all done earnestly and intensely give listeners what stands as a shining example to what “revival” deathcore can truly be. This is compounded by some other smart decisions; the perhaps too-minimalistic approach from their debut EP is updated just enough to make it feel less abrasive without losing its raw character, and the strategic inclusion of revitalized iterations of songs from their debut adds material that may not be new, but all the while feels new. In short, Girl of Glass are an outstanding force driving for earnest, aggressive, and real deathcore—something that is abundantly clear through Some Words Were Never Enough.
9.5/10
For Fans Of: KatyWentMissing, PSYCHO-FRAME, We Are the End, Suicide Silence
Connor Welsh