Every Trick in the Book is the fourth album by the American Metalcore band Ice Nine Kills, released on December 4, 2015, by Fearless Records.
Spencer Charnas explained that he and the band created a "master list" of "30 to 40 books" they felt would make for compelling songs, foregoing a ton of Stephen King novels to avoid "double up authors" and Kurt Vonnegut's works for being too complex to "do it justice in a three-minute song.
[12] On August 16, 2017, the band announced a nine-city fall US tour, beginning on September 28 at Anaheim's Chain Reaction venue and finishing on October 8 at The Foundry in Lakewood, Ohio.
[13] Alex Sievers of The Music praised the band's use of classic literature for the album's overall theme but was critical of the ballads disrupting the flow and steering away from the "deadly riffs and breakdowns" and "dark lyrical ravings", concluding that "this band won't revolutionise the heavy music world, and the record itself isn't quite a perfect album, but their brand of post-hardcore/metalcore is done much better than most of their peers right now and INK could very well be on the cusp of some very big success.
"[15] Sam Dignon of Distorted Sound also praised the overall concept throughout the record but felt it didn't distinguish itself from other similar acts who use "standard chugging metalcore riffs and breakdowns", found inconsistent lyricism throughout the track listing, and criticized the cheesy and clichéd ballads of "Star-Crossed Enemies" and "Tess-Timony" for being the "worst moments" on the album, concluding that: "Without the concept the songs just don't hold up by themselves, if the songs themselves were just more interesting then perhaps this could have been an enjoyable album.