Average Rating: 3.06 Rating Variance: 1.11 Objectivity Score: 96% (Very Balanced)
Sorted by Rating | Sort by Name5 classicCircle Takes The Square As The Roots UndoThe first few times I heard 'As the Roots Undo', I had a hard time getting into most of the songs because of the heavily jointed instrumental sections and the almost disorderly drumming. And what's more, I couldn't clench the emotion behind many of the screams and dual vocals on top of the heavier passages. I was quite into 'Kill the Switch' at this point but the rest of the tracks weren't on par, or so I thought. Coming back to the album proved otherwise. Yeah basically once you get into it, it's hard to stop listening. Converge Jane DoeAfter several listens, I've reached the conclusion that Converge's Jane Doe is the best metalcore album ever. No actually, it's the best album ever. The way I see it, when dissected, the album is made up of roughly two so-called "greater" facets. There's an instrumental facade to the album which at first seems great, but doesn't strike you as being something so consistent that it compels further excavation. However, it's a secondary facade which makes up the foundation of Jane Doe's splendor. In perspective, Jane Doe is very emotional but fails to deliver that emotion from the get-go. This latent emotional quality, which is expressed to it's full potential only when you've listened to the whole album, is the aspect that makes Jane Doe rise above any other metalcore record. The perfect album in my honest opinion. Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know AboutIn Pieces Lions Write HistoryIn addition to being criminally underrated, Lions Write History is one of the most molecular records I own. Featuring soundscapes and tonality that convey the very colors seen by a realist in our world, the record sleeve is reminiscent of paintings like Rain, Steam and Speed by Joseph Mallord William Turner. Significantly, both the album and this painting possess an acute sense of humanity, but are also borne on an ethereal quality which is introduced alike with the steam engine appearing out of the heavy, earthy mist (bringing a sense of novelty into the 20th century amidst a world of skepticism and reluctance for change). Being neither pretentious nor conspicuously plain, the record molds sweeping adagios alongside very angular rhythm sections and bass-driven melodies. The best part about the record by far is the collaboration that grace the tracks, wrought alike with an overwhelming sense of pensiveness that goes into the both the pre-production and the mastering of the album. These are, to cut a long story short, perfect on the record, being apparent but not enough to ruin the subtle progression of the songs. Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come4.5 superbAt the Drive-In Relationship of CommandBlacklisted Peace On Earth, War On StageBuilt To Spill Perfect From Now OnConverge When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered)Converge You Fail MeCryptopsy None So VileCursive DomesticaDeath SymbolicDisillusion Back To Times Of SplendorDismember Like an Ever Flowing StreamDismember The God That Never WasGodspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞Gorod Leading VisionJeff Buckley GraceJohn Mayer ContinuumMew FrengersmewithoutYou Catch for Us the FoxesmewithoutYou Brother, SisterMinus The Bear Planet Of IceOff Minor The Heat Death of the UniverseOrphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's AshesPropagandhi Supporting CasteRadiohead OK ComputerThrice The Artist In The AmbulanceThrice The Illusion of SafetyThrice's Illusion of Safety was an album that at first, struck me as being fairly uninspired, and very trite sounding. It was not until I put the album into context that I realized how much effort had actually gone into the songwriting, which yielded a very tight structure. The record flows seamlessly through tracks and runs the gamut of human emotion, with brilliant pieces including "Where Idols Once Stood" and "So Strange I Remember You", and ending on a cathartic note with "The Beltsville Crucible". An awesome album meriting the title it holds. Thrice Live at the House of BluesTrophy Scars Hospital MusicUlver BergtattWith Honor With Honor4 excellentA Wilhelm Scream RuinerAmpere / Daitro SplitAt the Drive-In In / Casino / OutBear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of HandsBeirut The Flying Club CupBurzum Hvis Lyset Tar OssCephalic Carnage AnomaliesCoheed and Cambria Second Stage Turbine BladeConverge No HeroesConverge Petitioning The Empty SkyCursive The Ugly OrganDaitro Laisser Vivre Les SquelettesDaitro / Sed Non Satiata SplitDamien Rice ODeathchain Deathrash AssaultDeerhunter MicrocastleDismember Where Ironcrosses GrowDismember Death MetalEdge Of Sanity CrimsonEntombed Left Hand PathEvery Time I Die The Big DirtyFear Before Art DamageFear Before The Always Open MouthGatsbys American Dream Ribbons and SugarGatsbys American Dream VolcanoGenghis Tron Cloak of LoveHopesfall The Satellite YearsHot Cross CryonicsIn Pieces Learning to Accept SilenceJoanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed MenderJoe Strummer and The Mescaleros StreetcoreLook What I Did Minuteman For The MomentMaps and Atlases You and Me and the MountainMillion Dead A Song to RuinMinus The Bear AcousticsMisery Signals MirrorsModern Life Is War WitnessMy Bloody Valentine LovelessOpeth Still LifeProtest the Hero FortressQuo Vadis Defiant ImaginationRefused Songs to Fan the Flames of DiscontentSaetia A RetrospectiveSet Your Goals Demo 2004Shugo Tokumaru ExitStreetlight Manifesto Everything Goes NumbStrung Out Exile In OblivionThe Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is A Dead SceneThe Mars Volta De-Loused in the ComatoriumThe Mars Volta Frances the MuteThe Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving DoorsThrice VheissuThrice The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II...Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III and IV...Thursday Full CollapseUnderoath Define the Great LineUnderoath Lost In The Sound Of SeparationWith Honor Heart Means EverythingYndi Halda Enjoy Eternal BlissYou and I The Curtain Falls3.5 greatA Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of RhythmA Wilhelm Scream Career SuicideA Wilhelm Scream DiverAkercocke Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go...All Shall Perish The Price Of ExistenceAmbitions QuestionAmpere All Our Tomorrows End TodayAmpere/Funeral Diner Split 9 Inch VinylArcade Fire FuneralBlacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than GodBotch We Are The RomansBoySetsFire The Misery Index: Notes from the plague yearsCarnage Dark RecollectionsCircus Circus Brooklyn NightlifeCoheed and Cambria Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV...Comeback Kid Turn it AroundDarkthrone A Blaze In the Northern SkyDeath HumanDeath The Sound of PerseveranceDismember Massive Killing CapacityDismember DismemberEvery Time I Die Hot Damn!Every Time I Die Gutter PhenomenonGhostlimb GhostlimbGhostlimb Bearing & DistanceGlass Casket Desperate Man's DiaryGlassjaw Worship and TributeGrade Under the RadarHoliday Unheard Of Carta MarinaHORSE The Band The Mechanical HandHot Cross Fair Trades And Farewells EPJoshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own EndKillswitch Engage Alive or Just BreathingKreator Enemy of GodMarigold Audible To AnimalsMinus The Bear Menos El OsoMoscow Olympics Cut The WorldPg. 99 Document # 8Protest the Hero KeziaRegina Spektor Soviet KitschSaosin Translating The Name (Death Do Us Part)The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg Everyone's in Love and Flowers Pick ThemThe Zombies Odessey and OracleTrans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other StoriesUnited Nations United NationsWintersun Wintersun3 good36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped RomanceAFI Sing the SorrowAkercocke AntichristAnd The Hero Fails The Mistake That Cost The WorldAs I Lay Dying Shadows are SecurityAs I Lay Dying An Ocean Between UsAvenged Sevenfold Waking the FallenBecoming the Archetype The Physics Of FireBelle and Sebastian If You're Feeling SinisterBlacklisted The Beat Goes OnCeleste Nihiliste(s)Cephalic Carnage XenosapienChildren Of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?Children Of Bodom Follow the ReaperDarkest Hour Deliver Usdredg El CieloFair To Midland Fables From a MayflyIn Flames Come ClarityIn Flames The Jester RaceIn Flames WhoracleKillswitch Engage The End of HeartacheMegadeth Rust In PeaceMisery Signals ControllerNeutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the SeaParkway Drive Killing With A SmilePoison The Well You Come Before YouPoison The Well The Opposite Of DecemberProtest the Hero A Calculated Use of SoundSoilwork Natural Born ChaosStrung Out An American ParadoxThe Black Dahlia Murder NocturnalThe Black Dahlia Murder UnhallowedThe Human Abstract NocturneUnderoath 777 (DVD)Unearth The Oncoming StormUnearth III: In the Eyes of FireVital Remains Dechristianize2.5 average36 Crazyfists Rest Inside The FlamesAll That Remains The Fall of IdealsAnd The Hero Fails Empire SmilesAt the Gates Slaughter of the SoulAugust Burns Red Thrill SeekerBloodbath Nightmares Made FleshCatherine Rumour Has ItChildren Of Bodom Something WildChildren Of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm KnockoutDecapitated Organic HallucinosisDissection Storm of the Light's BaneFuneral For A Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your NameGood Charlotte The Young And The HopelessHypocrisy VirusIn Flames Trigger EPIn Flames ClaymanIn Flames ColonyIt Dies Today The Caitiff ChoirKillswitch Engage As Daylight DiesThis is a step down from their previous material, and it seems KSE are quickly running out of solid writing material. The songs at first may be awe-inspiring, but quickly lose the effect as overused melodies fall into blandness. After about the 20th time of listening to this album, I rather advertently asked myself "What did I see in this album?", and that question being difficult to answer, I began to move on. After losing interest in this album and coming back to the unelaborated choruses and recycled riffs, I had definitely come to learn that Killswitch Engage had simply been lost in the world of industry, and no longer was the raw, more forceful approach present like on albums such as "Alive or Just Breathing", with Jesse Leaches ruthless vocals to top it off. Arguably, this album has more of a nostalgic feel to it and has a clearer production, but it's not the best Killswitch Engage can do, and many of you know it. Letter Kills The BridgeObituary Cause Of DeathSo They Say Antidote For IronySuffocation SuffocationTerrorust Post Mortal ArchivesThe Black Dahlia Murder MiasmaUnderoath They're Only Chasing Safety2 poorAlesana On Frail Wings Of Vanity And WaxAll That Remains This Darkened HeartAs Blood Runs Black AllegianceAs I Lay Dying Frail Words CollapseAtreyu Lead Sails Paper AnchorAugust Burns Red MessengersBehemoth The ApostasyBleeding Through The TruthBullet For My Valentine The PoisonCaliban The AwakeningCatherine The NaturalsChildren Of Bodom HatebreederChildren Of Bodom Tokyo WarheartsClosure in Moscow The Penance and the PatienceCradle of Filth MidianDarkest Hour Undoing RuinEmarosa This is Your Way OutA carbon copy of any other band, bearing most resemblance to The Devil Wears Prada. And hey, that says a lot. Fragments of Unbecoming Sterling Black IconFuneral For A Friend HoursHaste the Day Pressure The HingesIn Flames Soundtrack to Your EscapeIn Flames Reroute to RemainInhale Exhale The Lost, the Sick, the SacredInterpol Our Love To AdmireIt Dies Today Forever ScornedJob for a Cowboy Doom EPJob for a Cowboy GenesisJob For A Cowboy have received a lot of praise upon their incoming debut album, which left fans thirsty for more. Their 2007 release, Genesis, shows no enormous improvement and variation from their first album. Most songs are hard to distinguish by the time you've reached the end of the album, and lean towards the generic side with a metalcore influence. Yet many argue about whether they fulfill the criterion for a straight-up death metal sound, where JFAC have transitioned from a Death/Metalcore style from their EP. Good tempo changes and riff alternations help to captivate, but wouldn't fully define the progressivity that they should have to make it even more refreshing. The Divine Falsehood excels above most of the tracks and nicely highlights the instrumental distortion. This album is very over-hyped.Just Surrender We're in Like SinJustin Timberlake JustifiedKnow Margaret The First FeatherMetallica Master of PuppetsMors Principium Est Liberation = TerminationNorma Jean RedeemerPanic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat OutSilent Civilian Rebirth of the TempleSoilwork Stabbing the DramaStill Remains The Serpent'Of Love and Lunacy' was a solid metalcore album, more oriented towards a melodically infused base, touched up by the trademark of their sound; namely, keyboards. In spite of redundant KsE choruses and the infamous, but occasional breakdown, Still Remains had a signature sound. With a gradual urge to find themselves on the radio, SR now take the vaguest, incosistent parts from Of Love and Lunacy, and blend it in a mayhem of mediocre keyboarding and toddler melodies. Derivative songs and genericore riffs aren't all that bothers anymore, as alas, SR return with a more poppy, incohesive and dishonest album. Something to avoid at all costs.The Classic Crime AlbatrossThe Devil Wears Prada PlaguesThe Fall Of Troy The Fall Of TroyVital Remains Icons of Evil1.5 very poorAiden ConvictionAiden Rain In HellAtreyu Best of AtreyuAvenged Sevenfold Avenged SevenfoldAvenged Sevenfold City of EvilBring Me The Horizon Count Your BlessingsBurden of a Day Blessed Be Our Ever AfterCaliban The Undying DarknessCaliban's second album has successfully snowballed its way back into the bland metalcore population. The Undying Darkness is nothing we haven't seen before, and the funny part is it sounds like crap. Children Of Bodom Hate Crew DeathrollDragonForce Inhuman RampageDrop Dead, Gorgeous In VogueDrop Dead, Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy TaleExodus The Atrocity Exhibition...Exhibit AFuneral For A Friend Tales Don't Tell ThemselvesIt Dies Today SirensJonas Brothers Jonas BrothersMachine Head The BlackeningR. Kelly Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12)Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake ItSo the Story Goes As We March With VictimsThe Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful DiscordTrivium AscendancyTrivium Ember to Inferno1 awfulAiden Nightmare AnatomyAlesana Where Myth Fades to LegendAtreyu A Death-Grip On YesterdayBring Me The Horizon This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made ForBullet For My Valentine Scream, Aim, FireDeathchain Cult of DeathHawthorne Heights If Only You Were LonelyHawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And WhiteNorma Jean Bless The Martyr, And Kiss The ChildSimple Plan Still Not Getting Any...Simple Plan A Small Package for YouSimple Plan No Helmets, No Pads... Just BallsSoulja Boy Souljaboytellem.comTrivium The CrusadeWaking The Cadaver Demo
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