Album Rating: 4.0
if they went ahead with the idea of an all A Little Piece of Heaven-type songs album it would have been their magnum opus
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
That would've been cool
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.3
I love that song but that would get old really quick
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
long shadows. to me his cheesiness and positive, "good heart", playful vibe is believable
1-3 extreme low points on here. but then again while a 1/5 song doesn't get plays neither would a 3/5
most of the other perceived lows can be because of specific mental blocks because it is just that cheesy. if you get over that, for example by finding it believable or authentic the album can get to excellent quickly. primarily because of the more intense vocals, usually used in the hooks. I do not think shadows started to lose his voice on this one. that's prime right here IMO and the higher intensity passages sound incredibly potent. that's that tube amp as a dynamic vocal. not taking it for granted
nice soft atheist trigger at the end with dear god. refreshing. another filter besides the cheesiness
the production is on the worse side but I usually have fun taking care of that myself so.. dunno. probably 3.5 without changes
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
That’s the biggest positive of this record imo, Matt is most def at his peak here and on Nightmare. Their first record, I think he was literally a teenager so obv we should let it slide. He was great on Waking the Fallen, but City of Evil was just a mess at some parts. Mind you, literally all of those records are better than this, but Matt definitely wasn’t the weak link here aside from that cornball shout rap he does in Critical Acclaim, and the horrible autotune on Lost.
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
Why no love for his voice on HTTK? Album wasn't very good besides a few songs but his vocals were the best there imop. Also when Syn got significantly better at solos.
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
He was fine on HTTK too, but that record is even worse than this one. Shepherd of Fire and Acid Rain are fine, but Heretic and Coming Home are really the songs there that I really like. Syn really goes off on those two tracks.
But man, Doing Time is dogshit, the title track is mid as fuck, Crimson Day is one of the weakest ballads I’ve ever heard, This Means War is cool but like everyone and their mother knows it’s a direct rip off of Sad But True. Everything else isn’t even worth mentioning
But yeah, again, Matt’s not the weak link there either.
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
Shepherd of Fire gives me flashbacks to playing cod zombies, only redeeming thing about that album.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
up until a couple months ago i forgot how many awesome b-sides these guys have
demons, crossroads, lost it all, 4:00am, and not ready to die are all probably top 25 songs of theirs
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
hm yea the different production approach on HTTK definitely makes those vocals a contender for best overall! I do think the intensity peaks of his voice on this one here and some of the peaks on nightmare go a bit harder though. there is that extra switch like 2m44s in Tonight The World Dies. not really digging Nightmare but that moment illustrates the overdrive capability quite nicely, which he taps into seemlessly here and there
I also enjoyed his improved clean or mellow vocals on The Stage. basic but more mature. the vocal performance of the intense parts didn't slip as much for me as for other people so I appreciate the improved consistency throughout his overall repertoire. they kinda left him on an island on The Stage in terms of production though. the voice is just so dry and isolated. which works for me most of the time but it seems ridiculous considering the production standards of today. like of course it will rub people the wrong way... together with the decision to leave the master of the record pretty quiet and thus making the vocals less familiarly limited & consistent, this leaves a lot of people with an odd initial impression at the very least. they could have masked the slight decline of his harsher vocals. instead of doing that they left it to look more severe than it really was at that point in time
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
M Shadows defending Ronnie Radke yikes 💀
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
So... I finally jammed this again for the first time in ages, and I have to admit that it's better than I gave it credit for. Still not great by any means, but I used to have it at a 1/5... there's some good stuff here for sure, even if the album is really inconsistent as a whole
|
| |
“M Shadows defending Ronnie Radke yikes 💀”
I feel like i see people on the internet defend this dingleberry way more than makes sense
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
isn’t that dude literally a groomer or am I thinking of some other cornball mallcore band
|
| |
🤷 it’s terrible that I wouldn’t be surprised either way
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Being a groomer is a prerequisite for being in a 2000s metalcore/postcore band.
Radke just comes across as a general douche to me. It's like post malone and a tatted up prison nazi had a baby.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
wait nah wasn't radke the dude tangentially involved in some sort of killing??
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
He did like two and a half years for assault of a person who later ended up dying.
I already made up my mind that I don’t like him based on his shitty music but that kinda put the nail in the coffin
And man, I don’t care how you feel about new A7X, but this bullshit makes Nobody look like the greatest work of art ever produced: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qMXESlny4-I
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
How did anyone in the booth think that rapping was good enough lmao
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.5
Not only that
…Ronnie Radke is a 40 year old man. This would be more understandable if it was some 18 year old that’s just now getting into drugs. But this shit is just cringe to the highest degree man
|
| |
|
|
