yeah wow reckoning is amazing, perfect use of a feature. rare to hear spencer on a good song these days! that and the cleansing are really inspired songs, two of their best. sags a bit in the middle on first listen but another rock solid album. i'd prob put it a little above phantom anthem for their latter era. pumped for the new one now!

Album Rating: 4.5

Based and agree

Album Rating: 3.0

I've gotten so sick of their happy guitar solo's after lyrics and passages that are completely different in tonality. Wish they'd cut that crap. Make a happy song, a sad song, an angry song, or something that convincingly goes through the different emotions...

first four (intro not withstanding) here is really some of their best stuff.

Album Rating: 3.0

that's one of the craziest things I've heard about August Burns Red lol

oh come on haha. the cleansing has sick black metal influences and great progressive structure, ancestry is super catchy with a great leach feature and tightrope is a blast with richardson's hyper melody infused

Album Rating: 4.5

"I've gotten so sick of their happy guitar solo's after lyrics and passages that are completely different in tonality. Wish they'd cut that crap. Make a happy song, a sad song, an angry song, or something that convincingly goes through the different emotions..."



As one of my favorite bands, I actually agree with this, but I've never heard anyone else actually say it. I've said it in another thread but to this day Cutting the Ties is the worst offender for me. The song is phenomenal, the ending breakdown is filthy, and then they add that stupid happy guitar lead at the end as an outro. I hate it so much hahaha