| 4.0 excellent |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends |
| A lot more straight than ATD and more in the vein of TPOE, which is a step in the right direction I think.rAnd thank god the squeeling is back.rEveryone interested in deathcore should check this out.rA Pure Evil really is heavy as fuck. |
| All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker |
| Antagonist A.D. Haunt Me As I Roam |
| Anthrax Persistence of Time |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
Very surprised this record turned out this good.
They finally made an enjoyable album that has a constant flow,is more aggressive than their other releases and has some great instrumentations.The shouted vocals are also excelent.
The Clean vocals are too overproduced in my opinion but executed well and better integrated in the songs than on previous albums.
Another thing to mention is that their aren´t these cheesy semi-ballads and refrains.Everything is in a constant flow and not letting up untill the final really enjoyable song sumarizes the whole album.Well done As I Lay Dying you finally impressed me. |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods |
| Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger |
| Bermuda The Wandering |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape |
| Blacklisted ...The Beat Goes On |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God |
| Bleed from Within Empire |
Great record!
The vocals have gotten better,as well as the instruments and the production.Songs are more melodic and more crushing |
| Bleeding Through Declaration |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Body Count Bloodlust |
| Borknagar True North |
| Born from Pain War |
| Born from Pain Survival |
| Break Even The Bright Side |
| Brutality Will Prevail Misery Sequence |
| Keeping the pace they set with In Dark Places and amping up the groove. This thing slaps although the heights of root of all evil are still unmatched.rThe track End of Me with Brendan from Counterparts is a definite highlight and heavy as fuck |
| Carpathian Isolation |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas |
| Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice |
| Chimaira The Infection |
| Comeback Kid Turn It Around |
| Comeback Kid Symptoms + Cures |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| This is seriously the best metalcore (if you will) album of the year.rI know I will listen to this the whole fucking year.rDefinitely on par with Prophets whcih was fucking phenomenal.rSo happy there are still bands like this |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Currents The Way It Ends |
| Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora |
| Deathrite Nightmares Reign |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| Despised Icon Purgatory |
| This needs a review. Not touching the ills of modern man or Day of Mourning but a nice step up from Beast, which was also decent.rLightspeed is basically MVP 2 and has the nastiest breakdown 2019 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| Disbelief The Ground Collapses |
| Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Endwell Consequences |
| Endwell Punishment |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds |
| For the Fallen Dreams Relentless |
| Four Year Strong Brain Pain |
| Fuming Mouth The Grand Descent |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain |
| Gatecreeper Deserted |
| Improved vocals, tighter songwriting and diversity make this a big step up for GC. Needless to say this thing grooves like a motherfucker |
| Giver Sculpture Of Violence |
| The homeboys, most recently signed to holy roar records, deliver a well thought out and carefully constructed, blistering and deeply political hardcore record. The tone is fairly similar to Defeater and MLIW and it's refreshing to hear a young band aiming for the torch said contemporaries left in the field |
| Gojira Magma |
| H2O F.T.T.W. |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice |
| Heaven Shall Burn are back on track with this 100 minute onslaught of bolt thrower inspired melodeath beatdown. Incoporating various classical and electronic elements to keep things interesting and offering enough variety through this mammoth of an album. |
| Hundredth When Will We Surrender |
| Ignite Our Darkest Days |
| In Flames Clayman |
| Incendiary Cost of Living |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Invent Animate Stillworld |
| Invent Animate Greyview |
| Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts |
| K.I.Z. Hahnenkampf |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Kublai Khan TX Balancing Survival and Happiness |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad |
| Kublai Khan TX Absolute |
| Kvelertak Splid |
| On my first actual listen. This is so much fun, I can see 5ing this in due time. |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| Left Behind No One Goes To Heaven |
| Definitely their best album to date. Heavy as hell mix of sludge and hardcore. Think crowbar meets knocked loose |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires |
| Malevolence Reign of Suffering |
| Malevolence Self Supremacy |
| Can someone please review this? Record shreds like a mofo and is the perfect symbiosis of crowbar, pantera and knocked loose |
| Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity |
| Maroon The Cold Heart Of The Sun |
| Marrasmieli Between Land And Sky |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Misery Signals Misery Signals |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Moon Tooth Crux |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism |
| Nas King’s Disease |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire |
| Nine Eleven City of Quartz |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| Oceano Contagion |
| Palm Reader Braille |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent |
| Relations (GER) From Birth to Death |
| Renounced Theories Of Despair |
| Renounced Beauty Is A Destructive Angel |
| Saosin Along the Shadow |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Sick of It All Built to Last |
| Better than scracth the surface(which is still really good)r |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait |
| SSIO B.B.U.M.S.S.N. |
| SSIO 0,9 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate |
| Stick to Your Guns The Hope Division |
Yeah,I think one can´t deny that they really improved on this one.
The vocals and the crushing drums are really shining on here.The guitar-work isn´t very technical but it delivers some nice melodies and some well-executed chugging.
Another thing I noticed immediately is that this record is heavier again than theri last one and almost can catch up their debut.
The clean-vocals which are still in here,have slightley pushed more in the background and the harsh vocals are more prominent than on their last effort.If you´re searching for melodic hardcore which sticks in your mind and that is executed with al lot of passion,than this record is for you.
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| Straight Reads The Line The Author |
| Stray from the Path Rising Sun |
| Stray from the Path Internal Atomics |
| Strung Out An American Paradox |
| Strung Out Agents of the Underground |
| Strung Out Transmission.Alpha.Delta |
| Suffocation Souls to Deny |
| Suffocation Suffocation |
| Suffokate No Mercy, No Forgiveness |
extremly groovy one,with a crushing production and some killer vocals and melodies.
Really a surprise for me this year |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Temple of Void Lords Of Death |
| Terror Keepers of the Faith |
| The Acacia Strain Continent |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves |
| The Acacia Strain Slow Decay |
| The Amity Affliction Severed Ties |
| The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Crown Royal Destroyer |
| The Damascus Intervention Carefully Built, Carelessly Destroyed |
| The Destiny Program Gathas |
They reallyimproved on this one.
The record has a very dark and depressive atmosphere,created by the catchy and melodic riffs mostly.
The good thing is that they use clean vocals in a nice way,because they don´t pattern the whole song with it and keep it in the background of the harsh and well executed hardcore shouts.
Additionally there are breakdowns.
But don´t be afraid of that because they are placed and executed extremely well throughout the record,and aren´t overused.
On the whole a really nice metalcorerecord by a poorly underrated band from Germany!
Give it a try,you won´t regret it
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| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Empire Shall Fall Awaken |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Touche Amore Lament |
| Trapped Under Ice Secrets of the World |
| Turnstile Time and Space |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule |
| Veil of Maya False Idol |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Venom Prison Samsara |
| Volbeat The Strength/The Sound/The Songs |
| Volbeat Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood |
| Wayfarer A Romance with Violence |
| This rules. Red dead redemption black metal with great musicianship, diversity and tons of atmosphere |
| Whisteria Cottage Heathen |
| White Ward Futility Report |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| With Honor This Is Our Revenge |
| With Honor Heart Means Everything |
| Xenobiotic Mordrake |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte |
| Xibalba Años En Infierno |
| Your Demise Ignorance Never Dies |
| Your Demise The Kids We Used To Be |
| I don´t know why everybody hates clean-vocals.rSure, there are some pretty shitty attempts (Caliban or something)rbut as well as they are executed well they do it for me.rAnd on this record this is the case.rTheir last record was a big package of just pure anger and heavy breakdowns and an ultra-pissed voice.rI can understand that people are disliking the new voice, for the new guy´s cleans aren´t for anyones favour, but he has diversity, which their old singer wsa lacking sometimes imo.rI believe this album is a step forward for the band.rThe instrumentation is still really heavy and the shouts are still very prominent, as well as the crushing breakdowns.rThe cleans are executed well and this record is just pure fun for fans of hardcore with a melodic side (Stick To YOur Guns,Stretch Arm Strong...).r |
| 3.5 great |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance |
| waste of technical possibilities rtoo many breakdowns and unmemorable songs |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Guardians |
| ABR delivering one of their most cohesive records and take a more approachable direction compared to their latest release which was a little too wanky for it's own good. Not sure how this will sit in after repeated listens but as of now this is a solid straight forward effort and spiritual successor to Messengers albeit a bit more poppy and overall more forgettable |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide |
| Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous |
| Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess |
| Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All |
| Body Count Carnivore |
| Brand of Sacrifice Interstice |
| Bury Your Dead Cover Your Tracks |
| Champion Promises Kept |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason |
| Chimaira Chimaira |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Not as bad as expected and more cohesive than forever in any sense. Not quite up to par with I Am King but they managed to create a disturbing atmosphere with all the NIN industrial bits and the addition of more clean vocals and whispering. The songs are also easier to digest and not fully chopped up as they used to |
| Confession Cancer |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Create Avoid Heart Remains |
| Crystal Lake Into the Great Beyond |
| Dead Man In Reno Ideology |
| With this record Dead Man In Reno deliver a very good atmept to add new aspects to the Deathcoregenre.rThey introduce nice melodies which are outsourced on a lot of other deathcorerecords(sadly) and it?s really heavy,with the raw and powerful exectued growls and screams,the crushing(but rare) breakdowns and some furious blastbeats.rWhat really stands out o this record are the guitars because you can here some really nice lead and solo work, like on Bete Noire,and some nice deathish riffing along with some decent chugging.rDespite the guitars aren?t anything you haven?t heard before they?re quite refreshing and remind me a little bit of Between The Buried And Me,especially on the track Reveries Daybreak.rAnother point is that there are cleanvocals.I know this draws a lot of people away,but here they are used sparely and only where it?s necessary(for example check the above-mentioned track).The voice itself isn?t anything special but it adds some diversity to the harsh vocals.rAnd not to forget:rthere?s a keyboard,and it really sounds nice combined with melodic licksn and sweeps and the deep growls by the frontman.rSo if you like deathcore which isn?t as boring as most bands that come out of this genre this one might be for you. |
| Deftones Gore |
| Despised Icon The Healing Process |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| Down Down III: Over the Under |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town |
| First Blood Silence Is Betrayal |
| First Blood Rules |
| For the Fallen Dreams Changes |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman |
| I Declare War Amidst the Bloodshed |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Incendiary Crusade |
| Incendiary Thousand Mile Stare |
| Ion Dissonance Minus the Herd |
| K.I.Z. Sexismus gegen Rechts |
| K.I.Z. Das RapDeutschlandKettensägenMassaker |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Knocked Loose Pop Culture |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks |
| Korn Issues |
| Left Behind Blessed by the Burn |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Orthodox (TN) Let It Take Its Course |
| Our Time Down Here Live, Love, Let Go |
| Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Refused Freedom |
| Reign Supreme American Violence |
| Reign Supreme Testing The Limits Of Infinite |
| Shadows Fall The War Within |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five |
| Stand Your Ground Despondenseas |
| Stick to Your Guns Comes From the Heart |
| Stretch Arm Strong Free At Last |
| Strung Out Blackhawks Over Los Angeles |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk |
| The Acacia Strain 3750 |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch |
| The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Eyes of a Traitor A Clear Perception |
| The Eyes of a Traitor Breathless |
| Very liking this so far.rVery different from ACP.rThey turned away from their deathcoreroots and turned more into melodic hardcore/metalcore,which sounds great imho.The instrumentation does still contain some chugging but in a good way and there are still some nice medlodies but not as "melodeathy" as on theri previous efforts.rThe vocals are also more focused on a normal hardcoreshout and the growls and highs are only occuring from time to time.The clean vocals are still on here.The good thing about them is that they aren?t as cheesy as in other bands.rThey are very prominent in the song your old ways which is, hands down, one of the best songs they have ever written.rA real surprise for me this year.rSure it isn?t innovative and there are some better bands in this genre like Misery Signals but it?s a fun record.rSo,if you like a mixture of Architects and Misery Signals(maybe a lil bit of BMTH?)this one is for you.r |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The World We Knew To The Wolves |
| Throwdown Haymaker |
| Throwdown Vendetta |
| Trapped Under Ice Heatwave |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light |
| Unearth Extinction(s) |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is Ours |
| This is one of the few Deathcore bands that is going to have a future,because they don?t overuse breakdowns and write catchy and brutal songs. |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is My Enemy Now |
| Upon a Burning Body Southern Hostility |
| Varials In Darkness |
| Big step up from Pain Again. Still heavy, groovy metalcore but with much more instrumental variation and dynamics. Vocals also provide much more variety. The inclusion of celan vocals add a much needed diversity to their otherwise pretty one dimensional style |
| Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice |
| Definitely a clusterfuck of dying fetus, anaal and hat eternal on steroids. Next level heaviness with extremely technical proficient musician. I just wish they would give the songs some more room to breathe. This is just a 45 minute assault on your senses. if this is what you're looking for add point but for me personally, this is really tough to sit through in one listen |
| Wake Devouring Ruin |
| Within the Ruins Invade |
