4.5 superb |
Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... |
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
American Football American Football |
Anberlin Cities |
Architects Hollow Crown |
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
ASAP Ferg Trap Lord |
August Burns Red Constellations |
Behemoth The Satanist |
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
Black Sabbath Paranoid |
Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
Black Sabbath Sabotage |
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
Blur Blur |
Born of Osiris The New Reign |
Botch We Are the Romans |
Brand New Deja Entendu |
Brand New Daisy |
Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz |
ah youthful exuberance the album and still as good as when i first heard it. if you're looking for a fun and chaotic midwest emo album with a punk ethos this is what you need. math rock, post-hardcore, midwest emo, punk and a little experimentation put into a blender for a delicious emo smoothie. great blend of mathy noodling, quiet loud builds, passionate screams and off-kilter singing. drumming on this is also a surprising standout for the genre with speed and constant cymbal crashing blending with the noodley riffs to create controlled chaos. tim kinsella has always been the unheralded brother but he delivers a textbook charming off-key emo vocal performance, his unhinged screams at the end of "little league" are of course the standout.
the fastness and looseness of this along with the almost nonsensical lyrics at points make for something truly special. not sloppy as it is calculated but it has that feel that can only be created by inexperience. the kinsellas, davey von bohlen and victor villarreal were all in great projects after but this might be the one might just be their best collective effort by just being plain fun and capturing that magic lightning in a bottle energy which could only be had in 1995 in the not yet over-saturated emo scene.
check out: "little league" and "oh messy life" |
Carcass Heartwork |
Chelsea Grin My Damnation |
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
Christie Front Drive Stereo |
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
Coldplay Parachutes |
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
Cradle of Filth Midian |
Cult of Luna Salvation |
Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean |
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
Danny Brown Old |
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
Death Grips Exmilitary |
Death Grips The Money Store |
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
Deftones Diamond Eyes |
Departures Teenage Haze |
Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray |
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
DMA's Hill's End |
Editors The Back Room |
Effluence Psychocephalic Spawning |
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
Emperor IX Equilibrium |
Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
Extol Undeceived |
Eyedea and Abilities By the Throat |
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
Frank Ocean Blonde |
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
Girlfriends Girlfriends |
Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand |
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
Gorguts Considered Dead |
Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King |
Ihsahn Ihsahn |
Immortal Pure Holocaust |
Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
Impending Doom Baptized in Filth |
Impending Doom Death Will Reign |
In Flames The Jester Race |
Interpol Antics |
Interpol El Pintor |
ISIS Panopticon |
Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight |
Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues |
Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days |
Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again |
Judas Priest Painkiller |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
Kvelertak Kvelertak |
Last Days of April Angel Youth |
Linkin Park Meteora |
LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God |
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds |
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday |
Norma Jean Redeemer |
Oasis The Masterplan |
Painted in Exile Revitalized |
Penfold Amateurs and Professionals |
Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
Pop Unknown If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra |
Radiohead The Bends |
Radiohead Kid A |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent |
Rise Against Revolutions per Minute |
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
Sadistik Flowers for My Father |
Sadistik and Kid Called Computer The Art of Dying |
Silversun Pickups Swoon |
Slayer Hell Awaits |
Spoon They Want My Soul |
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? |
The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal |
The Appleseed Cast Mare Vitalis |
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... |
The Contortionist Language |
The December Drive Handslikegunsandcrashingsounds |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About |
The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile |
The Jazz June The Medicine |
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up It's Winter Here |
The Menzingers After the Party |
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River |
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave |
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
Thursday Full Collapse |
Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death |
Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again |
Tim Hecker Love Streams |
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
Unearth Watchers of Rule |
Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
Weezer Weezer |
Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
Yndi Halda Under Summer |
4.0 excellent |
'68 In Humor and Sadness |
A Day To Remember Homesick |
A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky |
A Sunny Day in Glasgow Sea When Absent |
A Thousand Times Repent Virtue Has Few Friends |
After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
Agalloch The Mantle |
Alcest Shelter |
Alcest Kodama |
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
Anberlin Vital |
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
Arctic Monkeys Humbug |
Arctic Monkeys AM |
Arkangel Prayers Upon Deaf Ears |
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
Ash Borer 2009 Demo |
Astronautalis This Is Our Science |
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly |
August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
August Burns Red Messengers |
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
Bathory Blood Fire Death |
Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk |
Benighted Ekbom |
Betraying the Martyrs Breathe In Life |
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
Blur Parklife |
Blur The Magic Whip |
Born of Osiris A Higher Place |
Born of Osiris The Discovery |
Botanist VI: Flora |
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
Braid Frame & Canvas |
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings |
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
Burzum Filosofem |
Burzum Hlidskjalf |
Burzum Burzum |
By Blood and Iron By Blood and Iron (EP) |
Cage The Elephant Melophobia |
Carnifex Dead in My Arms |
Chamberlain Fate's Got A Driver |
Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden |
Chinese Football Here comes a new challenger! |
Circa Survive Descensus |
Circa Waves Different Creatures |
Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion |
Closure in Moscow First Temple |
Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker |
Deafheaven New Bermuda |
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
Deftones White Pony |
Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
Direct Hit! Wasted Mind |
Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless |
Dot Hacker Inhibition |
Edaline I Wrote the Last Chapter For You |
Editors An End Has A Start |
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour |
Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
Few And Far Between Three |
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
For Today Ekklesia |
Free Throw Those Days Are Gone |
Fugazi Repeater |
Full of Hell and Nothing When No Birds Sang |
Funeral for a Friend Hours |
Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
Gerard Way Hesitant Alien |
Glass Cloud Perfect War Forever |
Glassjaw Material Control |
God's Reflex Scenes From A Motel Seduction |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
GridLink Longhena |
Hammock Everything and Nothing |
Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges |
Haste the Day Coward |
Heaven Shall Burn Asunder |
Hiroshima Will Burn To The Weight Of All Things |
Hundred Hands Little Eyes |
Immortal Battles in the North |
this is not a big step down from diabolical fullmoon mysticism or pure holocaust at all. maybe it is a touch less memorable in the riff department but it still delivers relentless pure black metal experience. this album's strength is definitely the speed it is played at, pure holocaust is fast but this aims to go even faster. some say that abbath's drumming is sloppy and a touch off but i don't even care when you are constantly blasting at the nonstop pace he is on this. abbath is even more croaky and goblin-like here which perfectly compliments the frostbitten atmosphere.
the thicker wall of sound production actually adds to the album with the drums being very high in the mix, higher than the guitars even and create a unique noisiness when combined with the as always varied fun riffage from demonaz that is albeit a touch muddled compared to pure holocaust. the closer "blashyrkh- mighty ravendark" slows down to mid-tempo for the albums first real breather which ends with a clean melodic fade out that seemingly culminates with some eerie synth work before guitars come screeching in again. an unexpected way to end an album that never stopped the pace it was going at. it is one note in what it's trying to do by cranking the speed to 11 and not letting up but still delivers great riffs and is executed just about as well as you can do it. long live immortal.
check out: "cursed realms of the winterdemons" and "blashyrkh- mighty ravendark" |
Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. |
Impending Doom The Serpent Servant |
In The Midst of Lions The Heart of Man |
Incarnia Proclamatoin |
Jawbreaker Dear You |
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
Jimmy Eat World Singles |
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
Jimmy Eat World Invented |
Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
Joyce Manor Cody |
Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
Katatonia Dead End Kings |
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To |
solid fun beatdown junz with heavy ass breakdowns that really pop with a nice crunchy guitar tone but very predictable and formulaic besides the great melodic atmospheric closer. it thankfully doesn't overstay it's welcome though. also some more vocal variety like the gutturals at the end of "moss covers all" or hooks like on "the calm that keeps you awake" would've added a lot. a good time but nowhere near aoty material. play at the gym for all your gainz.
edit- this ended up growing on me a bit after a few more jams and going back and listening to "a tear in the fabric of life". this is definitely a bit more varied, a touch more intricate with melodic dissonance breaking up the chugs and has a stronger groove to it which i appreciate. "piece by piece" and almost nu-metal esque "the calm that keeps you awake" stand out on more listens with great breakdown callouts and groovy riffs. the thing that stands out to me on some more listens is how well the album flows as a complete work, i end up getting sucked in and listening to more than i intended. much more memorable than i gave it credit for as i keep coming back for more.
check out: "suffocate" and "sit and mourn" |
Korn Korn |
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
Lantlos Melting Sun |
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
Lostprophets Start Something |
Make Them Suffer Neverbloom |
Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
maudlin of the Well Bath |
Mayhem Wolf's Lair Abyss |
Meshuggah None |
Mineral February/ M.D. |
Misericordiam Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility |
Mock Orange Nines & Sixes |
Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
Muse Absolution |
Muse Origin of Symmetry |
My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
Nails Abandon All Life |
Naked Whipper Painstreaks |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
No Devotion Permanence |
Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
Norma Jean Polar Similar |
Northlane Singularity |
Nothing Guilty of Everything |
Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves |
Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning |
Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
Opeth Orchid |
Opeth Morningrise |
Opeth Damnation |
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
Opeth Watershed |
Order of Nosferat The Absence of Grace |
combining vampires and black metal? now that's good stuff. very enjoyable black metal with heavy use of dungeon synth, keyboards and church organs to add to the melancholic atmosphere. soaring synths really work well with the driving second wave norwegian black metal inspired riffs. the band really nails that icy, fuzzy and thin guitar tone that was a staple of that era and combines it with the synths and keyboards to make something pretty interesting. strong touches of melody as well without going too far. this creates something very upbeat and almost uplifting feeling which is quite unique. it is pretty damn catchy. vocally one pitch but really solid and powerful screams. imagine if second wave black metal never stopped and kept evolving, that's kind of what i see this as.
the only complaint really is that it gets predictable with the track listing being almost entirely a switch off between two minute dungeon synth interludes and then a 6-7 minute song. however, it does flow nicely but loses steam towards the end. definitely worth a listen for black metal fans of all kinds.
check out: "floating with the ravaged ones" and "devoured by lurking shadows" |
Owen At Home With Owen |
Owls Owls |
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
Parkway Drive Horizons |
Pearl Jam Ten |
Periphery Periphery |
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
Pixies Doolittle |
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
Prayer for Cleansing Rain In Endless Fall |
Preoccupations Viet Cong |
Radiohead Amnesiac |
Radiohead The King of Limbs |
Reno Kid Sun You've Got To Hurry |
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
Sadistik L'appel Du Vide |
Salt The Wound Carnal Repercussions |
ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP |
ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips |
See The Light Maranatha |
See You Next Tuesday Parasite |
Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion |
Shadow of the Colossus Shadow of the Colossus |
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad |
Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur |
Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane |
Slayer Show No Mercy |
Slayer Haunting the Chapel |
Slice the Cake Other Slices |
Slipknot Slipknot |
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
So Hideous Laurestine |
Substructure Monolith |
Suede Coming Up |
Suffokate No Mercy, No Forgiveness |
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
TesseracT One |
The 1975 The 1975 |
The Acacia Strain Wormwood |
The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light |
The Appleseed Cast The End of the Ring Wars |
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe |
The Blood Brothers Crimes |
The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children |
The Crimson Armada Guardians |
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
The Faceless Akeldama |
The Faceless Planetary Duality |
The Gloria Record A Lull in Traffic |
The Menzingers Rented World |
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses |
The Player Piano Satellite |
The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good |
The Promise Ring The Horse Latitudes |
The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster |
The Smile Wall of Eyes |
The Smiths The Smiths |
The Strokes Is This It |
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
Thrice Vheissu |
Time Spent Driving Just Enough Bright |
Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living |
Tormentor Anno Domini |
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History |
Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP |
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
United Nations The Next Four Years |
Veil of Maya [id] |
Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils |
Volumes Via |
Volumes No Sleep |
Waxwing For Madmen Only |
Whitechapel This Is Exile |
Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus |
3.5 great |
$uicideboy$ Radical $uicide |
A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
A Season Drive Summer of '73 |
Ab-Soul Do What Thou Wilt. |
Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin |
Aborted Vault of Horrors |
Aegaeon Dissension |
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
alt-J This Is All Yours |
Amarionette [US] Amarionette |
Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum |
Anberlin Lowborn |
Antichrist Siege Machine Vengeance of Eternal Fire |
Ark of the Covenant Separation |
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream |
Attack Attack! Attack Attack! |
Attila Outlawed |
August Burns Red Leveler |
Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
Benton Falls Fighting Starlight |
Betraying the Martyrs The Hurt, the Divine, the Light |
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
Black Monolith Passenger |
Blasphemy Blood Upon the Altar |
Bleachers Strange Desire |
Blessthefall Witness |
Blood of the Martyrs Once More, with Feeling |
Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive |
Botanist/Oskoreien Green Metal/Deterministic Chaos |
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For |
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood |
Burzum Aske |
Camber Beautiful Charade |
Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever |
Caribou Our Love |
Carnifex Hell Chose Me |
Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin |
Chelsea Grin Evolve |
Circle of Contempt Structures for Creation |
Coffin Storm Arcana Rising |
Color Film Living Arrangements |
Colossal Welcome the Problems |
instrumentally this album is really great top shelf math rock, the free flowing noodley licks are catchy as well as technically impressive. with the use of trumpet as well it will of course invoke comparisons to american football but a lot of this album is much more up tempo with much more poppy sensibilities. jazzy drumming compliments the mathy riffs perfectly and the driving basslines are standout. just imagine if american football rocked out a bit more. it's all great stuff when one of the two singers is doing vocals.
sadly the main vocalist for me brings this down quite a bit. he delivers an incredibly low key vocal performance that borderlines on talking with very little range in a lower register. this really doesn't mix well with instrumentals that are crying out for something a bit more genre typical. luckily the other singer on the album takes over for three songs with a much more complimentary whiny high pitched tone, these also happen to be the best songs on the album. a rare case where an instrumental version of this would be preferable. still the highlights are close to best of the genre high and instrumentally it's pretty impeccable, so give this one a listen if you like midwest emo or math rock.
check out: "work in prague" and "the 1/5 compromise" |
Corelia Nostalgia |
Cross My Heart Temporary Contemporary |
Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here |
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
Darkthrone Arctic Thunder |
Darkthrone It Beckons Us All |
Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall |
Deadguy Screamin' With the Deadguy Quintet |
Death From Above 1979 The Physical World |
Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata |
Demon Hunter The Triptych |
Departures Death Touches Us, From The Moment We Begin To Love |
Despised Icon Beast |
Disembodied If God Only Knew The Rest Were Dead |
Dot Hacker How's Your Process? (Work) |
Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival |
Effluence Ballistic Bloodspray |
Effluence Liquified |
Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows |
Emperor Reverence |
Everyone Asked About You Everyone Asked About You |
Fallujah Nomadic |
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
Fit for an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination |
Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
Foo Fighters One by One |
For Today Portraits |
For Today Breaker |
Free Throw Bear Your Mind |
Garrison The Bend Before The Break |
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
Gojira Magma |
Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight |
Grouper Paradise Valley |
Gucci Mane Everybody Looking |
Haste the Day Dreamer |
Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
He Is Legend Heavy Fruit |
Heatmiser Mic City Sons |
Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
Hope For The Dying Dissimulation |
Horrendous Anareta |
I Declare War Amidst the Bloodshed |
I Shall Devour Manipunation |
I, the Breather Truth and Purpose |
iamerror Trout Yogurt |
IDYLLS Prayer for Terrene |
Imbroco Are You My Lionkiller? |
Impending Doom There Will Be Violence |
Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone |
Iwrestledabearonce Ruining It for Everybody |
J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive |
Job For A Cowboy Doom |
John Frusciante The Empyrean |
Kanye West ye |
Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
Kishi Bashi Lighght |
Knapsack This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now |
Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
i don't think i'll ever understand the massive hype this band gets but this is a totally solid fun ep. i found this to be even more one note than "you won't go before you're supposed to" and made me appreciate that album a touch more. crushingly heavy but not a whole lot of substance or intricacies to draw you in further. they know how to write a breakdown that hammers hard but they are quite predictable in where they are placed and lack memorability as there are so many of them. the band tries to mix it up with some atmospheric attempts like at the end of "forced to stay" and "permanent" but really just feel like padding and breathers after the beatdown. you throw this on, enjoy it and it mostly leaves your memory outside of a callout or two.
bryan garris's unique high pitched strained screams have really grown on me though and his unorthodox sound contrasts well with the downtuned pummeling guitar tone. a solid little experience that i won't mind revisiting from time to time when i'm feeling a tad peeved!
check out: "where light divides the holler" and "god knows" |
Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
Kvelertak Meir |
Lamb of God Sacrament |
Lamb of God Wrath |
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
Maggat A Pacific Puzzle |
really solid piece of midwest emo with a bit of a post-hardcore edge from germany. fast and loose instrumentation with a kind of a post-punk jangle to the melodies at points. some juicy basslines on here as well. really solid passionate sing shouty vocals. a bit samey but it's worth a listen.
check out: "your plan is too obsessive" and "valium kid" |
Maya Shore Farewell To Introductions |
Mayhem Deathcrush |
Meshuggah Chaosphere |
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All |
Modern Baseball Holy Ghost |
Monuments (UK) We Are the Foundation |
MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable |
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
Nothing Tired of Tomorrow |
Oasis Be Here Now |
Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants |
Oasis Dig Out Your Soul |
Oathbreaker Rheia |
Obscura Akróasis |
Oceano Depths |
Of Mice and Men The Flood |
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
Opeth Deliverance |
Opeth Sorceress |
Orchid Chaos is Me |
Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
Pathology Awaken to the Suffering |
Penfold Our First Taste of Escape |
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway |
Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly |
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
Sadistik and Maulskull Oblivion Theater |
Salt The Wound Kill the Crown |
Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear |
Slice the Cake Cleansed |
Slice the Cake The Man With No Face |
Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted |
St. Vincent St. Vincent |
Starmarket Calendar |
Stereophonics Language.Sex.Violence.Other? |
Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed |
Suicide Silence The Black Crown |
Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave |
Taylor Swift 1989 |
The Ascendicate To Die As Kings |
The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
The Casket Lottery Moving Mountains |
The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
The Faceless Autotheism |
The Promise Ring 30 Degrees Everywhere |
The Sawtooth Grin Jabberwocky |
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo |
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events |
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
The Way of Purity Biteback |
The Word Alive Deceiver |
This or the Apocalypse Dead Years |
Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
Tiny Moving Parts Celebrate |
Trivium Shogun |
TTNG Animals |
TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger |
Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
Veil of Maya Eclipse |
Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
Viraemia Viraemia |
Volumes Happier? |
With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror |
Within the Ruins Creature |
Wormrot Voices |
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |