Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing
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Aeksis8745
July 17th 2007


450 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

My favorite is still Rise Inside, I just wish they would play it live sometimes.

Willie
Moderator
July 17th 2007


20214 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I've never heard this album, but I have heard The End of Heartache. After listening to that, I don't really want to hear much more from this band. They're pretty generic, if you ask me.




I loved Alive or Just Breathing and never really saw it as a generic metalcore album... its way too vicious and fast and a lot of songs don't use that scream for the verses sing for the choruses approach. Plus Jesse's clean singing is a lot more varied then alot of metalcore bands... my main complaint with the new vocalist is that all his singing parts sound almost identical. Basically even if you don't like the last two albums (like me) then you still may be surprised by this one.This Message Edited On 07.17.07

morjens
July 18th 2007


208 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

nah the new singer is awesome, great voice and good lyrics (not as powerful as Jesse's though). It's not his fault, that the newer albums arent as good as the older ones since it's been the same guy writing pretty much all their songs from the beginning.

and kse is most certainly NOT generic... they are one of the pioneers of the whole singing and screaming mix and the first who actually made it sound good imo, which is the result of their success and popularity. I love All That Remains but i would say that THEY are generic metalcore, pretty much a rip-off of kse in all ways just like so many other metalcore bands today.This Message Edited On 07.18.07

kalkal50
July 18th 2007


2386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

KsE's new stuff is much too mellow.

morjens
July 18th 2007


208 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

agreed for once. They have a couple of tracks on the end of heartache which are really in-your-face like the old ones though.

kalkal50
July 18th 2007


2386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

yes, my favorite off that album is probably Rose of Sharyn

morjens
July 18th 2007


208 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i agree, again :O

kalkal50
July 18th 2007


2386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

life to lifeless sounds like a wrestling song

Aeksis8745
July 18th 2007


450 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

ATR's newest album is definetly better than anything KsE has done so far, and they are most certainly not generic.

kalkal50
July 18th 2007


2386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Why did you rate this a 5 then?!?!

Aeksis8745
July 19th 2007


450 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

lol well then let me rephrase that, ATR's newest album is better than anything that KsE has put since this. I mean this is the album that started it all.

morjens
July 19th 2007


208 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

mhm... dunno about that man, i can say, "the fall of ideals" is a tiny bit better than KsE's newest and s/t albums and i know the fall of ideals is an amazing album. But it doesn't beat AojB or TeoH... not for me atleast. The songs on those 2 are from the start to the end all anthems, breakthrough songs.This Message Edited On 07.19.07

morjens
July 19th 2007


208 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

exactly. the fall of ideals have more "weakest links"

kalkal50
July 19th 2007


2386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

fall of ideals has more good songs than any KsE album, by a hair

Confessed2005
July 19th 2007


5579 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Killswitch have more appeal than ATR though. Well, for me anyway.

kalkal50
July 19th 2007


2386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yea, they're more accessible to people as well.

Aeksis8745
July 19th 2007


450 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

If your looking for technicality though AtR is where its at.

kalkal50
July 19th 2007


2386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

All That Remains aren't that technical either though, they just have a less predictable formula.

Aeksis8745
July 19th 2007


450 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Well out of the two I meant.

kalkal50
July 19th 2007


2386 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I know, but none of them are technical...



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