The cleans on Cursed To Remember rule, sounds like old
it Dies Today or Still Remains. Funnily enough the only thing that interested me from this band.

Album Rating: 3.0

"the more i play this the more i dislike it"

Kinda feel the same way. I keep telling myself I gotta be in the right mood for this shit, but when I'm actually in the mood for heavy shit I'm gonna wanna hear some END or Gaza, not this.

Album Rating: 2.0

Woefully mediocre in a way that could have been formative and important for a younger me but now makes me kinda cringe

Album Rating: 3.0

i do like A Pale Light a lot but so much of this is painfully uninteresting imo

And yet this band is super popular much like Gideon who’s ok but they make up for it with a dope live performance.

Album Rating: 3.5

@jeetjeet that's why i want brendan to keep counterparts melodic and use end for the heavy shit



it's an extremely delicate balance that most bands fail to do properly

Album Rating: 3.0

@Scoot I agree 100%

Album Rating: 3.5

I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to fully fall in love with their chaotic “stream of consciousness” style songwriting but I accept it as their brand at this point. Fun album regardless.

Album Rating: 1.0

this is not jazz folk

Album Rating: 3.5

Finally getting to this and it's rad so far, I dig the cleans but get why people don't lol

Album Rating: 3.5

This is good, I do like the previous album more tho

Album Rating: 4.0

album bangs. gotta love those melodic leads

Album Rating: 4.3

“This is not jazz folk”



I said I’m working on it

Boys going Erra on those cleans lmao

Album Rating: 3.0

The cleans aren't doing this any favors, but I'm sure most of the hardcore/metalcore kids that check this won't care. I think calling this genericore is selling it SLIGHTLY short. Some bursts of really good riffs on par with Counterparts. I don't actually even mind the first couple breakdowns, they just wear out their welcome after a a couple. As someone else said, I would've flipped shit about something like this when I was 15, but it's really only aight now.

Album Rating: 1.0

Counterparts comparison is the only red flag you need re. genericore. 95% of this is bottom of the barrel garbage, didn't hear a single 'good' riff that wasn't derivative piss

Album Rating: 4.5

I love this band sm. love seeing modern metalcore bands take on old school metalcore. better than anything the bands they're emulating were ever doing for the most part imo

Album Rating: 3.0

I mean, there's kind of disconnect in me between the hardcore kid of yore and the punk rock fiend I've become, but it doesn't sound like there was ever a place in your heart for Counterparts, Johnny. That band was really cool to me in the late 2000s-early 2010s, maybe because I'd only been listening to hardcore in general for a year or 2 and definitely was fucking with bands like For the Fallen Dreams like my friends who got me into it were but Counterparts did their thing in such a way that I'm not surprised or offended to see bands in this style take influence. Certainly mid music like this and dogshit like most of Emmure's discog can still be distinguished between.

Album Rating: 2.5

finally a good johnny take

Album Rating: 1.0

counterparts have always struck me as a massively middle-of-the-road band with a minor point of distinction depending on how much you care about their whingy frontman, but most tracks i've heard from them are at least internally robust - can recognise the service to the song even if their riffs/verses/lyrics/breakdowns are boilerplate to me

this on the other hand is just a sloppy mess. one disconnected breakdown after another, atrocious clean choruses that have no relation to the rest of the song (and are so scattershot that their juxtaposition comes off as shrapnel), monotonous harsh vox filtered through way too many distortion filters not to sound artificially heavy, hysterical overreliance on unimaginative chugging and melodic riffs that stand out more for the band robbing them in broad daylight from a handful of extremely dated acts

don't care to strawman emmure as a reference point (v tired argument) to write this off as garbo on its own terms (and, well, for representing practically everything awful about contemp core as a whole in general)