lol

So good.

Album Rating: 2.5

i shall listen moar.

but seriously... whats with all the fives?

especially from staff, this isn't sounding that revolutionary to me

Oh shit, rasputin is going to post your ratings now, you fucked up.

Oh shit, rasputin is going to post your ratings now, you fucked up.

Oh.

lmao

Album Rating: 5.0

idk if this has been posted yet but:



http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1077468808/circle-takes-the-squares-new-album-decompositions

You guys are creative.

Album Rating: 3.0

where are your drum sticks now



ur anus

Album Rating: 5.0

mudvayne is better than this...big box o' lol.

You guys are creative.

Album Rating: 5.0

theyve had that donations page up for only like a day i think, expecting 2500 and they already have 7730. Thats crazy, 9 people donating over 250 as well. real fucking fanboys there.

From the very beginning of the writing process, our mission statement was to comprehensively explore the musical themes that we were creating. We set out to build upon the stylistic foundation we had established with As The Roots Undo, but were determined to provide ourselves with the room to experiment, and try our hands at more repetition, variation and management of space in ways we hadn't attempted before. We decided not to let song-length or other logistical limitations inhibit the sprawling arrangements we were crafting, and ventured to grant each individual idea within our multi-movement songs its own chance to meander and evolve: sometimes in linear ways, and sometimes within the framework of more traditional progressions. Our emphasis on fine-tuning, experimenting with, and expanding our approach to song structure enabled the creation of the three fully-arcing, musical story-lines that will make up Decompositions Volume I (which has a running time of 50-plus minutes).

That's a lot of words just to say "we're a bunch of pretentious douchebags but we make awesome music so we're gonna smoke weed and chill until we feel like releasing this album."

So much has been put into the hardcore metal scene. Some like it, some despise it. There are even some that will go to lengths and say it isn't even real metal. The previous statement is however wrong, due to the fact that the genre is hardcore combined with metal. It is called metalcore for a reason. But here and there, a band will come into your life that brings something different to the table. Something other than similar structures throughout their track list; a band that doesn't do the “Killswitch thing” (scream verses, sing choruses). A new spin has just been put on these trends. And although I am not one to take a liking to extremely technical classification, I feel that sometimes it may be needed to get the idea. As stated in my All That Remains review (shameful plug), it is somewhat necessary to define such a band as The Human Abstract. This time I will go with the term, dare I say, progressive metalcore. Why, you ask? THA blends the intensity of metal, the rawness of hardcore, and the musicianship and writing abilities of a decent progressive band. A more modern one, of course.

So insightful

that artwork is pretty cool tho

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah i thought so too. Also someone was asking a few pages back if they missed something and when the new album would be, this is from Kathy:

What you've heard already on myspace and that Brooklyn video was called Ritual of Names. The first half of Ritual of Names will basically be the same, though its now called Enter by the Narrow Gates. Decompositions part 1 is going to start with part of (RoN) aka Enter by... and the rest will be all the new stuff we've written. About an hour of music will be released. This YEAR. I guess it wouldn't hurt to tell you late summer/fall is a reasonable time frame to expect it. We are working on details like format, packaging ideas, preorders, release date, etc. There's a ton of things to still work out, but we're on it.

Decompositions Part 2 is mostly written and will contain a bunch of other new music and as I understand it, will end with (or at least contain) the 2nd part of Ritual of Names that you are familiar with. Its not recorded yet. So think of RON as bookends holding up 90-120mins of brutality. It is all connected.

I hope this gets you pumped up quite honestly. Because we are!

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

The more I listened to stuff like pg.99 and Off Minor the worse this sounded.



... and then I remembered to stay true to my values and valued shitty most-likely-Christian music over all





wow.....

Sometimes idiocy knows no bounds...