Album Rating: 1.5

i rememvvber that one viddeo

lol. these dudes.

Album Rating: 1.0

they were pioneers, truly ahead of their time

I remember when the airhead vocalists did a track by track explanation of this album. They made Simple Jack look like Michio Kaku.

Album Rating: 1.5

the first 30 seconds of that one song are stained in my mind

Lol

I think I'm traumatized.

Album Rating: 1.0

not this fucking band lol

lol i remember hearing about the video in a metalsucks article and watching the video in high school study hall. ah simpler times.

ohh so one album and goodbye, rich daddy bought the kids a release and then they lost interest and started playing valorant instead

epic bump holy shit

Album Rating: 1.5

Metalsucks



Design the Skyline



it's high school all over again









An AMA from the bassist of the band, fun to read for a few minutes: https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/24opho/i_was_in_design_the_skyline_ama/

Surrounded by Silence was ahead of its time, they did the modern deathcore 32nd notes breakdown and animal noises first

unironically

one more reason to shit on them

Bumping this band in 2025 is insane

Surrounded by Silence is one of my favorite mathcore tracks

Album Rating: 2.0

There are now two bands claiming to be Design the Skyline. One, formed by Daniel Garza (one of the original vocalists) and two other OG members, released a new song this week called Beckoning which sounds very CYB era BMTH. The other, with Eric Azure as the sole original member, owns all the band's socials and responded by saying THEY are the real Design the Skyline and that they've started work on a new album (which has been on and off for over a decade now).



It's funny that there are two incarnations fighting over this band name of all things.

What a bunch of losers lol.

just like Batushka lmao
good to know

Album Rating: 2.0

I feel like the meme that is Surrounded By Silence gave this album 0 chance. It really isn't THAT bad. Some of the instrumentals are inspired enough. It's passable-ish deathcore with a few little interesting twists here and there, even if the overall execution is extremely mediocre (and these vocals absolutely suck). Break Free From Your Life would've been a legitimately good post-hardcore track with better vocals.