The Transient Effects of Light on Water is a 2000 metalcore

Metalcore

Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...

 album by This Day Forward

This Day Forward

This Day Forward was a Philadelphia-area band active from 1996 to 2003 whose style varied from metalcore to post-hardcore with indie rock influences.-History:...

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Track listing

1. My Unbroken Reflection (3:57)
2. Cupid's Diary (3:16)
3. Kissing Perfections Cheek (3:09)
4. If I Wore a Mask (4:27)
5. Writing in Cursive (3:35)
6. End of August (2:42)
7. The Effects of Departure from Ideal Proportions (3:29)
8. Significant Others (3:37)
9. Disintegrating Eden (3:40)

Facts

• The album's name comes from a lyric in "My Unbroken Reflection". The lyric comes from a sound recording clip of a lecture spoken by drummer Colin Frangicietto's college teacher.

The clip is of the professor talking about how water is an object always in motion so to capture it on canvas is a hard task. Guitarist Vadim Taver said in an interview with http://silentstagnation.de/ "This was a good analogy to our music because it's hard to capture the energy, power, and emotion of music on recordings. Sometimes people pull it off, but overall it's not the same as seeing a band perform live, and that was the meaning behind the quote."

• Kissing Perfection's Cheek, If I Wore A Mask, and Significant others are re-recorded versions of songs from their debut album, Fragments of an Untold Story Born by Shunning the Opportunity.
• My Unbroken Reflection, Writing In Cursive [which also was on a Break Even Records Compilation], End Of August, and The Effects Of Departure from Ideal Proportions were all on a pre-TTEOLOW Demo handed out at Syracuse, New York's Hellfest.