Plenty of great things come out of Australia: boomerangs, cricketers and, of course, metalcore bands, home as it is to Polaris and Parkway Drive. Placing their homeland at the forefront of their identity, Pridelands have arrived hoping to carry the baton with their debut album, but while they’ve certainly got some good material, they can’t quite claim to be one of metalcore’s brightest new hopes. At their strongest, Pridelands offer decent glimmers of promise, displaying a refinement and assuredness in their sound that not a lot of breakout bands have within a debut album. The Walls is an early success, juddering with unrepentant drums and quivering downtuned guitar lines, before having a good stab at a soaring chorus. The pulsing Heavy Tongue scornfully...