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Hawks
Staff Reviewer
September 29th 2018


116129 Comments


Fuck I need to jam this asap. Wake is the only one I’ve heard but it’s amazing.

Groundking
September 29th 2018


2436 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

A Lesson in Love does so many wonderful things to me, I love it.

rufinthefury
September 29th 2018


4385 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

excited to listen to this

Joeman82
September 29th 2018


1449 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Devotion Cuts, Glass: Half Empty, and A Lesson In Lust are easily my favorites.

Great review!

rufinthefury
September 29th 2018


4385 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Hawks go listen to Elephantitis it's fucking great

onionbubs
September 29th 2018


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

holy shit this is good dude sounds just like anthony green

Veldin
September 29th 2018


5882 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

it's a bit uncanny O_o Very fun album tho

artiswar
September 30th 2018


16639 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The Stranger In Our Pictures is far and away the best song for me. Pure chills.

Ebola
September 30th 2018


4692 Comments


These guys are the best band in the scene and it’s not remotely close.

clavier
Emeritus
September 30th 2018


1210 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

yeah especially since a lot of the other big swancore bands (RIP ALLB) have perished

SteakByrnes
September 30th 2018


31061 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

ALLB were top of the food chain for me, minus Divisi

Danred97
September 30th 2018


2544 Comments


Honestly after Culture Scars (which i thought was good, but ultimately underwhelming) I wasn't really hyping myself on this album. Man though, this blew me away. The perfect progression for this band. Nearly flawless imo.

artiswar
September 30th 2018


16639 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed, but Culture Scars grew on me hard. Unlike their other releases that were instant hits, it took like 8 listens for it to sink in. It's pretty underrated and not quite the misstep it seemed initially. I really have an appreciation for that record now.

Calc
Contributing Reviewer
September 30th 2018


18033 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

guess I'll start the counterpoints again, I've listened to this 4 times and I can't remember a single song. guess this works in a wholesome sort of way though. Donovan is a hell of a musician

GreyShadow
September 30th 2018


8091 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Culture Scars and Secret Wars are my favorites. The last 3 songs on Culture Scars and Secret Wars (track) are my favorite songs by them.

supremejelly
September 30th 2018


1264 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

That's cool to hear, I don't think I've ever heard someone prefer any of their releases over Wake

rufinthefury
September 30th 2018


4385 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This is very cool. Once again, I mourn the lack of schizophrenic off-the-walls energy that Elephantitis era HTS had but these songs are slick. They boys aren't really branching out too much they've found a good sound and best of all they're good at it.



Wake 2.0, this time with more mental health focus and less conceptual stories.

Joeman82
October 1st 2018


1449 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The main attraction to HTS for me was always Donovan Melero and his immaculate talent. I think the spastic and admittedly long-winded songs on the Elephantitis EP are the songs I end up coming back to the most because of how much Donovan’s drumming and singing is put on a pedestal.

I think as a band and as song writers HTS keeps improving, but they still are at their best when Donovan steals the show with his fantastic drumming like on Devotion Cuts or his blisteringly blunt and painful lyrics like on Glass: Half Empty, Stranger In Our Pictures, or well Devotion Cuts fits here again.

inthox
October 1st 2018


260 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

cant wait to hear this. HTSs certainly a gamechanger when it comes to post hardcore stuff. will never forget my first listens on their debut EP and wake.



their last ep was sweet as fuck also. last LP was kinda safe play, not bad but i know they can do a lot better. hopes are high for this one!

cold
October 1st 2018


6735 Comments


I surprisingly liked this quite a bit. It’s like a nice little combo of Circa Survive, DGD and Fall Of Troy.



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