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| 5.0 classic | motherofallhubberd | October 23rd 12 |
This is how music should sound, absolutely brutal, but with an element of experimentation to its sound. And it was done by Asking Alexandria, a band best known as a death core band that often does something new and different with a usually stale and boring genre. This is a great album from front to back.
The Irony Of Your Perfection is their debut album and really does benefit from this as it is completely different from any other albums of any genre. To call this a classic of the genre would be a complete understatement, as it in reality is something completely different to anything else that has ever been created. This has brutal riffs throughout, being one of the heaviest releases ever put out there for sure. I can not think of a single album with heavier riffs or drumming to date.
The lyrics to this album really speak to people going through a rough time, and i like this, as it pushes them beyond the usual heart breaks and gore of the genre that plagues music of today. Also, the band stays away from the number one cliche in music today-auto tune. There is no auto tune to be found plaguing this particular masterpiece, no, Asking Alexandria are a lot more sensible than that.
The vocals are the real highlight. They are beautiful, jumping from some of the lowest growls of all time to some of the highest screams of all time, and then some beautifully melodic clean vocals that really suit this brand of crazy heavy music that the band has been putting out.
The use of synthesizers is not completely over the top on this album unlike that which would come later. It is used where necessary, and adds a lot of dimensions to this one dimensional shape that i never thought was possible until i heard this release. Its the best album of one of my favorite bands.
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| 3.5 great | ilovebmth96 | August 26th 10 |
i just love the music. The music is just thrilling in my opinion
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| 3.5 great | krazykyle37 | November 4th 11 |
Pretty good album, but its actually not the same asking alexandria as the one we all love/hate... bit of a history lesson, Ben Bruce, guitarist in the current Asking Alexandria, had a band in Dubai. They released this album under the AA name but never toured as AA, and so when he left he made the current Asking Alexandria, they used that same name for the band. TRUE STORY
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| 0.0 | L337 | August 12th 12 |
THEY FUCKIN SUCK AND DESERVE TO BE SPLIT UP AND KILLED!
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| 2.5 average | Alabaster Jones | April 11th 17 |
Sometimes an album's reputation precedes it. That happens with critically acclaimed, so-called "classic" albums, but it can also happen with infamous ones. The difference is, while the "classics" are often considered so for good reason, the panned ones are almost never as bad as people would have you believe. And this is very true for The Irony Of Your Perfection, an album considered to be Asking Alexandria's debut. I say considered because the band that made this wasn't really Asking Alexandria, just a one-off project that lead guitarist Ben Bruce decided to create while in Dubai, who broke up a month after the album was released. The Asking Alexandria we know is only called so because Bruce couldn't come up with another name for his new band in the U.K. All I'm really saying is, this isn't some unholy bastardization of all things musical; merely, it's just some adequate, yet very amateurish melodic metalcore. Make what you will of that.
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| 1.0 awful | Xenorazr | February 28th 17 |
Imagine you're going to an outdoor concert. The day is thick and humid, your armpits are sweating profusely and the overhead clouds are taking way too much time to purge your reeking flesh. As soon as the concert is about to begin, rain hits the ground like a tidal wave, turning dirt into mud. Someone trips you and in that split-second, lightning hits the speakers, which explode with a reverberating static, and the symbols from the band's drumset cling against your head because fuck you anyway, and amidst it all you realize this split-second just won't end. That's what it's like to listen to The Irony of Your Perfection.
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| 1.5 very poor | DecentCorn | October 28th 12 |
@motherofallhubberd this isnt even close to heavy man. This is childs play
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| 3.5 great | mechatanner | August 17th 10 |
you have to admit, this ones better than their new stuff. the cleans are REAL. saw em live, the cleans are absolute bullshit. they layered that cd into oblivion, but this one is an actual badly recorded album.rLOVE IT.
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| 2.0 poor | davezillaMP3 | July 28th 20 |
With the debut, i am questioning what AA's problem is, is it the band or the vocalist? before they were copying BMTH and TDWP, they released this genari-core album. One postive i can say about it is it does not get AS BAD as some of the worst albums in their catalog.
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| 4.5 superb | Thomas Soto | May 30th 19 |
Ironically, it's actually Asking Alexandria at their best.
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| 3.0 good | KingSpook | July 14th 13 |
The only good thing that this bane of a band ever released.
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| 1.5 very poor | teo | January 13th 23 |
| 1.0 awful | Watch | July 13th 22 |
| 1.5 very poor | Halez | May 1st 20 |
| 5.0 classic | buzzy | April 22nd 20 |
| 1.5 very poor | endtime | March 14th 20 |
| 1.0 awful | ElSomni | December 18th 19 |
| 1.0 awful | mEyck07 | November 18th 19 |
| 1.0 awful | kodama | August 4th 19 |
| 1.0 awful | Elynna | July 11th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Sarah | August 11th 18 |
| 1.5 very poor | chayka | April 27th 18 |
| 1.5 very poor | AndSalx | March 8th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Loch | January 20th 18 |
| 1.0 awful | tellah | January 17th 18 |
| 1.5 very poor | Maximo | December 30th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | klocu4 | December 15th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | tysly | December 14th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | Mikpol | October 15th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | nbats | August 22nd 17 |
| 1.0 awful | Brandon | December 30th 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | Wildwood | December 17th 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | El Olam | December 11th 16 |
| 2.5 average | uhh | November 2nd 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | btati | October 18th 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | Shamus248 CONTRIBUTOR | September 30th 16 |
| 1.0 awful | SB129 | August 29th 16 |
| 1.0 awful | bnyby | July 29th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Snide | May 14th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | hreim | April 11th 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | BHAR | March 16th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | torts | March 7th 16 |
| 1.0 awful | Leymon | February 25th 16 |
| 1.0 awful | Brett W | September 27th 15 |
| 1.0 awful | Oatmate | September 16th 15 |
| 1.0 awful | Steelix | September 13th 15 |
| 1.0 awful | ICDD | September 6th 15 |
| 2.0 poor | Flave | July 2nd 15 |
| 3.0 good | boff | June 28th 15 |
| 1.5 very poor | forall | October 3rd 14 |
| 1.0 awful | dxc | September 18th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | Brabiz | August 21st 14 |
| 1.0 awful | JSJC | July 16th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | Veldin | July 11th 14 |
| 2.0 poor | Henry | June 12th 14 |
| 1.0 awful | nob973 | April 27th 14 |
| 2.0 poor | WesCH1 | February 27th 14 |
| 1.0 awful | Sithese | February 11th 14 |
| 3.0 good | acbpn | February 6th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | Rawwrrzz | November 22nd 13 |
| 1.0 awful | Crawl | November 3rd 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | Drawk | August 17th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | J | August 11th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | Tywuhh | August 8th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | ANJ45 | August 6th 13 |
| 1.0 awful | Zeg | June 28th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | NeoSpaz | February 5th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | ZoneOut | January 30th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | Lenix | December 31st 12 |
| 1.0 awful | Xav | December 6th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | Metalshy | November 28th 12 |
| 1.0 awful | Happy | November 21st 12 |
| 1.0 awful | VinVal | November 18th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | 7trials | November 3rd 12 |
| 1.0 awful | sbtcg | August 18th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Cryio | April 1st 12 |
| 1.0 awful | Jackus | February 7th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | Custy | February 3rd 12 |
| 1.0 awful | mrnic3 | October 23rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | shahidan | September 8th 11 |
| 1.0 awful | arlowf | April 12th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | 6chris6 | March 19th 11 |
| 2.5 average | ilbron | March 14th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | BMW1216 | February 20th 11 |
| 1.0 awful | boeoz | December 17th 10 |
| 2.0 poor | CutMan | October 7th 10 |
| 2.5 average | IN64 | October 2nd 10 |
| 5.0 classic | jay2125 | September 8th 10 |
| 3.5 great | xbris | August 10th 09 |
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