Album Rating: 3.0

the guitar tone is saddening when compared to Hollow Crown's

The thing about Hollow Crown is that I think the guitars were tuned to G# in almost every song so that alone is going to make the guitars sound top notch. Not sure about the tuning on this album.

Album Rating: 2.5

Great review, completely agree with everything said. I really like the ending ballad, and a couple of the tracks (Alpha Omega/Devil's Island), but overall it's just disappointing in comparison to HC.



Never got into Ruin too much either, I guess I found it a little boring as I listened to HC first. THAN had more enjoyable tracks than this.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

The Bitter End is seriously awesome

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Oh and I strongly disagree with Sams voice being all trashed on this album, his cleans sound the best they ever have and his screams are a lot better than the previous album

Album Rating: 3.0

his cleans and screams are both worse than they were on Hollow Crown though, imo they sound more or less like they did on THAN. don't enjoy his screams on here at all

Album Rating: 3.0

I really enjoy this album but it's a huge turnoff when 4 of the 11 tracks are ambient tracks that hardly even get heavy, but I really enjoy those songs either way. Also, this album flows way better than HC.

Album Rating: 4.5

Well bloc Architects uses tuning as followed:



About 1/3 of songs are Drop B with the lowest be being a G#

Another 1/3 is straight drop B

And the last 1/3 is C# Standard

Album Rating: 3.0

this album flows way better than HC.

Album Rating: 4.5

And that's for HC to now. Idk what they used in Ruin and Nightmares

nice review, fishy. this really is mediocre, not much replay value either tbh.

empires fade is gonna be the best metalcore album of the year, unless MS move their asses.

this was disappointing.

Album Rating: 3.0

In Ruin they use drop B and in Nightmares they used drop C, in Hollow Crown they switched between D flat standard and drop B.

Album Rating: 3.5

i knew this would have a 3.4 average rating.

Ah cool, thanks for the info guys. Out of curiosity, any idea what tuning is used on this album? Unless Chuck was already commenting about this album, and now Hollow Crown...

Album Rating: 3.0

They definitely use drop B on the heavier ones like Alpha Omega and Devil's Island. I imagine they also use D flat standard like they did on Hollow Crown, it's a pretty easy switch because you just tune the B back to D flat to make it a standard tuning.

wow this band just continues to revolutionize metalcore with each new album i mean wow how is this possible

They definitely use drop B on the heavier ones like Alpha Omega and Devil's Island. I imagine they also use D flat standard like they did on Hollow Crown, it's a pretty easy switch because you just tune the B back to D flat to make it a standard tuning.

It's great to hear a mainstream metalcore band use drop B. Seems like drop C is for the amateurs now haha.

Album Rating: 3.0

It's great to see a mainstream metalcore band that uses more than one tuning, every other band just uses a drop d type tuning and sticks to it. It even pisses me off that btbam refuses to do anything other than d flat standard, they try to be limitless but that is an obvious barrier.

Album Rating: 3.0

Something different atleast, it started to bother me and become obvious that it was holding them back on TGM and The Parallax.