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shawncuggy
February 24th 2025


44 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Gave this another listen. I still dont understand how you can be jaded enough by modern metal and hardcore to make this record. Still mind boggling.



Couple decent tracks here and there but still leaves me completely befuddled to this day.

MantisTobogganMD
April 20th 2025


502 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

The first half of this is really good. Mask of Sanity is sneaky good. The only tracks I'll straight up skip are

I Fly and Snapshot. Circle Through barely makes it. Overall a solid record.

jrlikestodance
April 20th 2025


7789 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Damn I Fly really grew on me but I can agree w the others. It's crazy the negative reception to this album contributed to the band's break up whether they admit it or not

Wildcardbitchesss
April 20th 2025


20700 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Has Reba dropped anything else? That one song she had was good

MantisTobogganMD
April 20th 2025


502 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Wait, the band broke up??!?

Wildcardbitchesss
April 20th 2025


20700 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

not that I know of but Reba dropped a solo track and she’s been playing guitar

for Marilyn Manson

goblinilbog
April 20th 2025


1150 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't think they've broken up but one of their guitarists had serious health issues so they cancelled basically all of their tour dates and haven't really posted anything about the band in a while. Really hope they come back in some form because they have a unique sound and good energy live.

MantisTobogganMD
April 22nd 2025


502 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Take Shape is still an absolute jam.

jrlikestodance
April 22nd 2025


7789 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yea I probably shouldn't have said they broke up but its nuts the band hasn't had any real updates since cancelling the tour for this record



MillionDead
April 22nd 2025


6310 Comments


I haven't bothered with this. Felt burned by this band tbh.

goblinilbog
April 22nd 2025


1150 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It's definitely worth a listen even if you don't love it. There's a lot of interesting stuff on this (mix of industrial / electronic / grunge / nu metal / core) and I appreciate any band that takes real chances.

botb
April 23rd 2025


19987 Comments


I am king is the last album this band did that wasn’t full of misses for me

MantisTobogganMD
April 23rd 2025


502 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Mask of Sanity is even better after not listening to the album for awhile.

Teal
April 24th 2025


684 Comments


It’s unfortunate what has happened to Code Orange. The momentum for Underneath got destroyed by the pandemic and The Above was undercut by health issues, rumored low ticket sales, and the winter break between album release and the first album promotion tour.

MantisTobogganMD
April 24th 2025


502 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

It did seem like the album landed with a thud.

DarkSideOfLucca
April 24th 2025


19235 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Damn that sucks, I'm actually a pretty big fan of these guys

ShadowOfTheCitadel
August 24th 2025


580 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Yea I don't think this band is ever coming back. From what I've gleaned from their socials, the drummer and the Macbook player in the band aren't stoked on Reba's extracurricular stuff and are now focusing on producing and running a label.

AlkemestRedux
Contributing Reviewer
February 13th 2026


1603 Comments


Joining Marilyn Manson is not a twist I saw coming for anyone in this band, but I guess it makes sense given their trajectory. Their debut is still awesome but I've just heard other releases piecemeal and feel like I'm not missing much.

Wildcardbitchesss
February 14th 2026


20700 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Honestly it’s diminishing returns up until this record. I Am King is cool, Forever is just a weaker version of that. Underneath went half nu metal while still trying to be hard and it sucked and honestly I begrudgingly respect this absolute mess of an album. There’s seriously some great tunes here but there’s some real dogshit too.



Debut reigns supreme. After that id say I Am King, then this, then Forever, then Underneath. I think the little EP with the Corey Taylor feature is decent aside from that boring ass remix. The two original songs on it are great.



I really want to live in a world where they continue on the trajectory set by Love is Love instead of becoming the equivalent of butt rock but “hardcore”



Still sucks what happened to them. I managed to catch them opening for Deftones, fuck, probably ten years ago now, and they killed it. Even if I think they kinda suck I still think they deserved more success. They worked their asses off and got fucked by circumstance. And people can talk shit all day about Marilyn Manson, and I will join them, but I also won’t pretend that if that fuckin guy asked me to be his touring guitarist I would absolutely without question seize that opportunity. Good for Reba. She’s easily always been the most talented person in the band.

jrlikestodance
February 14th 2026


7789 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Album is underrated in my eyes



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