EP Review: Withpaperwings - Six Thousand Days
Withpaperwings’ 2025 EP, “Six Thousand Days”
Considering this band was only formed in 2023, you’d think that they’d still be finding their feet within the Metalcore Revival scene, right? Wrong. Since releasing their EP, “Six Thousand Days” on 28th August 2025, withpaperwings have cemented themselves as a band that you need to have on your radar.
Coming in with only 4 songs totalling to 12 minutes of play time, this EP is filled to the brim with melodic metalcore riffs, and breakdowns that some would consider almost deathcore on the heavy scale. The opening (title) track, “Six Thousand Days,” doesn’t care what you’re doing, where you are, or who else can hear, it comes straight in with a riff so distinctively delicious it would stop any metalcore-loving bystanders in their tracks just for them to ask you to replay that opening riff again. The tremolo picking may disappear by the 20 second mark, but the impact remains with vocalist Evan Urton, delivering the tightest, most glass-shattering screams. On first listen, the vocals quickly became the best that I’ve heard from a metalcore vocalist in a long time, especially for a band so fresh.
Lyrically, the EP focuses on the loss of a loved one and this is notable throughout every track except one. Every line, every word, is pained by grief which opens up an opportunity for listeners to feel a deep sense of connection and relatability to the songs.
“Blinded,” track 3, takes a different direction lyrically and musically, with the verses mentioning religion. Unlike the other 3 tracks, it feels angrier, and not in the sense of how gritty the riffs are, but how you feel like you should apologise to it after listening. Although the melodic metalcore guitar has the same tuning, the way it’s played speaks all on its own to convey feelings of betrayal and isolation.
This EP was my Metalcore EP of the year 2025. From the second I hit play, I was pulled in and held so tightly by the sheer brilliance that is obvious across every track. It’s polished to perfection with riffs that take you back to the 2010s, breakdowns that could stop a freight train, and lyrics that actually make you feel something beyond “yeah, this is sick!” There’s no shortage of replayability, and that comes down to all of the above plus A-grade production that allows you to hear every ounce of soul put into this record. You could run this back 100 times and find something new to get excited about that you’d missed on the previous listen. My only complaint is that it’s too damn short.
Metalcore isn’t dead, you just haven’t found the right bands in the modern scene to make you fall in love with the genre again. That’s exactly who withpaperwings are.
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“Six Thousand Days” is available on all streaming platforms via The Coming Strife & Armageddon Records.