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2.0 poor | Antigen | March 23rd 14 | This is sempiternal!!!! wait, this isn't? damn.
7 Bumps | Bump |
3.5 great | BassDemon333 | January 21st 14 | Its not as good or as heavy as The Flood, and Shayley brought something unique to the band that feels missing here. The production on that album was near perfect as well. That being said, Aaron shines the most on this album and there are some really great melodies on a lot of these tracks. Austin isn't up to par with his past performances, but he has his moments, most notably on You Make Me Sick. Overall its solid though, and they made a great move choosing Aaron as their new clean vocalist.
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0.0 | tresm87 | January 21st 14 | way better than i thought it would be. new cleans sound very good and honestly austin does too. if you can overlook the mediocre youre not alone this is a solid album.
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2.0 poor | Jared Floryan | December 11th 14 | Restoring Force is largely devoid of soul, as Of Mice and Men add elements of nu metal into the metalcore drainage pipe in order to stay as relevant as possible within their scene; yes, this kinda works to their advantage since it means a bigger fanbase and all, but the banal joyride stops there. The band seems more than obligated to copy and paste almost every trick in the book, thereby creating a record which is so extremely predictable there's no humor nor logic. Aaron Pauley's (bless his heart) cleans can't even save this pitiful offering due to how in-your-face Austin Carlile is about 78% of Restoring Force's 38-minute duration, and the guitar work wouldn't be so bad if I haven't heard of these compositions previously.
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0.0 | Scamp4553 | January 28th 14 | Going into this album expecting a mediocre and boring dub-metal album, I was actually quite surprised once the first track hit my ears. This is a surprisingly great album.
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3.0 good | moshpotatoes | January 22nd 14 | Not as bad as I anticipated to be. Austin Carlile and the guitars certainly put a huge rmainstream spin on the album and other parts just uses the basic metelcore formula which rfuses and creates a new sound that has not been heard in this genre. So my hat is tipped to rthat, but there is still a generic presence wrapped around the album and has less heart than rtheir previous releases.
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0.0 | chuggabreakdown | January 21st 14 | It's extremely average and plagued with the same thing over and over again. While Aaron's voice is incredible, Austin acts as a catalyst and just brings everything down. Average at best.
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2.0 poor | braindawgz | January 21st 14 | The cleans are good, but this is just boring as hell.
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2.0 poor | djentsy | December 13th 14 | ALL HAIL LORD AND SAVIOR AUSTIN CARLILE THIS ALBUM SAVED MY LIFE I AM NOT ALONE.
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1.5 very poor | breakingthefragile | February 7th 14 | This is actually so derivative of so many outdated and immature musical concepts, that it's kind of comparable to a middle-aged man going back to middle school even though he graduated long ago, and then trying to join the basketball team and getting pissed that he's taller than the hoop itself. This is realistically a 1/5 on the grounds that there is no better example of the current regression in metalcore as a whole, but these guys deserve an extra increment for impressively being able to describe their own sound in the most inept way possible: "fusion between Meshuggah and Nickelback." - Austin Carlile
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1.5 very poor | hobblepot | November 4th 15 | The Flood is and always will be the best thing this band ever did and ever will do.
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3.0 good | beachdude | July 19th 14 | Perfectly passable, generic hard rock album... however, Aaron Pauley is criminally underutilized, and his vocals are severely overproduced.
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3.0 good | MegaJake1024 | January 16th 14 | Previews honestly sound dope. Very much anticipating this.
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3.0 good | Piem | March 12th 24 |
3.0 good | dballs | December 14th 22 |
4.0 excellent | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 13th 22 |
1.5 very poor | Watch | May 21st 22 |
4.0 excellent | DylanP92 | February 24th 22 |
3.0 good | Vusra | January 28th 22 |
2.0 poor | bnest | September 30th 21 |
2.5 average | teo | April 17th 21 |
3.0 good | Luna | April 2nd 21 |
3.5 great | Asura14 | February 25th 21 |
2.5 average | Grandpa | February 13th 21 |
2.5 average | Brabiz | October 19th 20 |
1.0 awful | Skiiddz | September 27th 20 |
4.0 excellent | alcnet | August 31st 20 |
3.5 great | Halez | May 1st 20 |
4.0 excellent | s0nicx | February 28th 20 |
4.0 excellent | Element | December 29th 19 |
3.5 great | Moosic | December 25th 19 |
2.5 average | ElSomni | October 12th 19 |
3.5 great | Jaxer | August 23rd 19 |
2.5 average | kodama | August 4th 19 |
2.0 poor | babb | July 22nd 19 |
1.5 very poor | ian b | July 18th 19 |
2.5 average | josh | June 10th 19 |
2.0 poor | murphA | January 18th 19 |
3.5 great | Uzumaki | November 28th 18 |
2.5 average | STEA | November 9th 18 |
2.0 poor | ryguy | November 8th 18 |
2.5 average | Josh | September 22nd 18 |
2.0 poor | Sam C. | September 17th 18 |
1.5 very poor | artiswar | September 15th 18 |
1.5 very poor | mommypig | September 15th 18 |
2.5 average | YuckFou | September 11th 18 |
4.0 excellent | Sarah | April 12th 18 |
3.5 great | Loch | January 20th 18 |
3.5 great | Risodo | January 19th 18 |
3.0 good | nbats | December 16th 17 |
2.5 average | DRusso | December 15th 17 |
3.5 great | cjgone | November 30th 17 |
3.5 great | Oleum | November 23rd 17 |
1.5 very poor | Elynna | November 21st 17 |
3.0 good | doc23 | October 30th 17 |
1.5 very poor | Kurisu | September 22nd 17 |
1.5 very poor | Clegane | September 17th 17 |
1.5 very poor | Panuda | July 27th 17 |
2.5 average | elry2k | May 6th 17 |
3.5 great | NickRF | April 21st 17 |
3.0 good | ian b. | April 20th 17 |
3.0 good | Maximo | April 12th 17 |
2.5 average | Joran | February 7th 17 |
1.0 awful | Brandon | December 30th 16 |
3.0 good | maxer | December 14th 16 |
1.0 awful | Eminor | December 5th 16 |
4.0 excellent | Poobamku | November 25th 16 |
3.5 great | Acole9 | November 12th 16 |
1.5 very poor | uhh | November 2nd 16 |
2.5 average | po0ty | October 17th 16 |
2.5 average | btbam99 | October 3rd 16 |
3.5 great | kogli | October 1st 16 |
2.0 poor | oDjento | September 18th 16 |
2.0 poor | Jeejee | September 12th 16 |
3.5 great | SoxRock | September 5th 16 |
2.0 poor | Illume | August 8th 16 |
3.5 great | rvirk | July 30th 16 |
1.5 very poor | torts | June 28th 16 |
2.5 average | Zibang | May 30th 16 |
3.0 good | Snide | May 14th 16 |
1.5 very poor | IVIII | April 24th 16 |
4.5 superb | Shamus248 CONTRIBUTOR | April 10th 16 |
3.0 good | jesper STAFF | March 17th 16 |
1.0 awful | Leymon | February 25th 16 |
2.5 average | wwf | January 30th 16 |
4.5 superb | foldas | January 25th 16 |
3.0 good | 8genre | January 5th 16 |
2.5 average | Ribwich | December 23rd 15 |
4.0 excellent | gilly | December 14th 15 |
1.5 very poor | Defiled | December 3rd 15 |
1.0 awful | btati | November 12th 15 |
2.5 average | malitze | October 26th 15 |
4.0 excellent | Snevitz | October 20th 15 |
3.5 great | Brett W | September 27th 15 |
2.5 average | Moge | September 22nd 15 |
3.0 good | Ben STAFF | September 21st 15 |
3.0 good | alexjd | September 15th 15 |
1.5 very poor | ICDD | September 6th 15 |
3.5 great | Aeri | August 14th 15 |
1.5 very poor | Flave | August 3rd 15 |
5.0 classic | neojoe | May 25th 15 |
2.0 poor | furpa | April 16th 15 |
1.5 very poor | Spec | April 14th 15 |
2.5 average | ToddDC | February 20th 15 |
2.5 average | Chin | January 13th 15 |
4.0 excellent | Braddy | December 28th 14 |
2.0 poor | slaps | December 16th 14 |
3.5 great | Ryan93 | December 5th 14 |
2.5 average | MattTD | November 19th 14 |
4.0 excellent | Sebe | November 16th 14 |
2.5 average | Pollux | October 25th 14 |
2.5 average | Pikmar | October 9th 14 |
3.5 great | GSMC96 | October 4th 14 |
4.0 excellent | unaMUSEd | September 7th 14 |
1.5 very poor | Prole | September 5th 14 |
2.5 average | Linx | September 2nd 14 |
3.5 great | cmil94 | August 16th 14 |
4.0 excellent | Steelix | July 21st 14 |
4.0 excellent | JacobG | July 19th 14 |
3.5 great | CutMan | July 19th 14 |
2.5 average | Hansol | July 15th 14 |
3.0 good | JSJC | July 8th 14 |
1.5 very poor | betray | July 1st 14 |
1.5 very poor | wwba | June 27th 14 |
4.0 excellent | Mazza | June 22nd 14 |
2.0 poor | Henry | June 12th 14 |
2.5 average | iSoton | May 4th 14 |
5.0 classic | Nuhead | April 26th 14 |
1.5 very poor | Roman | April 23rd 14 |
3.5 great | Jaime | April 9th 14 |
3.0 good | Xav | March 30th 14 |
4.0 excellent | ludis | March 19th 14 |
1.0 awful | HeyAli | March 11th 14 |
3.5 great | TJM1992 | February 17th 14 |
3.5 great | mar1s | February 13th 14 |
2.5 average | NoSons | February 12th 14 |
1.0 awful | ilbron | February 11th 14 |
4.0 excellent | WesCH1 | February 9th 14 |
2.5 average | Tywuhh | February 9th 14 |
2.0 poor | acbpn | February 6th 14 |
1.5 very poor | mttgry | February 5th 14 |
2.0 poor | ADV123 | February 4th 14 |
3.5 great | bain89 | February 2nd 14 |
2.0 poor | zmol | February 1st 14 |
2.5 average | ZairoN | January 31st 14 |
3.0 good | jc3494 | January 30th 14 |
2.0 poor | DyerTF | January 29th 14 |
3.5 great | Spoink | January 28th 14 |
2.0 poor | iGuter | January 27th 14 |
2.0 poor | Fantas | January 27th 14 |
2.5 average | ellagos | January 27th 14 |
4.0 excellent | edenkun | January 24th 14 |
3.5 great | SimGod | January 22nd 14 |
1.0 awful | adr | January 22nd 14 |
4.0 excellent | TBliss2 | January 21st 14 |
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