Album Rating: 3.0

they dropped a special charity release with 6 unreleased tracks recorded during the sessions for this on Bandcamp today. actually has some pretty solid stuff

Album Rating: 2.5

Thanks for the info, heckscythe.

Those B sides are actually more enjoyable than this album

Album Rating: 3.0

Dafuq, they actually are

Yeah imo this band hasn't been any better than "average" for the past 14 years...

Album Rating: 3.5

those b-sides SLAP

it's a shame these dudes have slipped into playing such a neutered iteration of their trademark sound

Album Rating: 3.5

Don't mind Spirit they just think of this album as on par with Surrounded by Silence and Brokencyde

Album Rating: 2.5

he's completely right though lol

theres not many people id trust over spirit when it comes to metal and related things

this is a 5

ur a 5

i love ya'll

This is like the archetypal average album. As predictable as it gets, but it’s hard to call the execution bad except for the clean vocals, which they balance out with a couple of good riffs.

I guess one thing you can’t take away from these guys is they almost always nail the guitar tones for this style of metalcore.

it's not that the execution is bad per se, it's just bad songwriting

and i actually really dislike the guitar tone on this one (and their last) it doesn't have the power of their older material

The power would come from stronger songwriting and tailoring the overall mix to fit it. In isolation these guitar tracks sound have that nice 3D blended 5150/Rectifier type sound that most the good 00s albums of this nature used. Not sure if that’s what they actually used, but the sound is in that ballpark.

Album Rating: 2.5

sounds fine to me, very 2019 not-too-clean but streamlined core sound



yea most of the songs are bleh-to-suck but a couple are fine

Block letter 5150 best metal amp ever

Album Rating: 2.5

hands down

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah this is totally as bad as Surrounded by Silence I guess.