exactly

Album Rating: 4.0

this thread is just fucked up

dix unite

Album Rating: 3.0

No problem if you like dicks

wana cross swords tranta bro

wtf is going on here

im in!

buggery!

Album Rating: 2.5

The only tracks on here that didn't bore me were Strength of the Mind, The Great Deceit, and Ascension, all the others seemed really bland.

I can't blame Jesse Leach for the recent albums being so meh to me, because they started to decline back at the second self-titled album.

Gonna be skipping this

Album Rating: 3.0

artwork belongs on their t-shirts than on an album

Or maybe on the side of a fat dude's arm

Album Rating: 3.0

I probably saw a variation of that on a greasy Miami Bike Week event

Now that I think about it, every Killswitch album cover looks like it should be on an Affliction T-shirt. Except Disarm the Descent. That looks like something out of a Del Toro movie.

I think the biggest issue for me with this album based upon a first listen is a mixture of the production and lack of aggression to complement the growls. The mix is too 'clean' for the heavier parts and I don't think Jesse's growls fit it very well. The drums lack energy and the guitars are missing an edge that their earlier works possessed.

The songwriting is refined and the melodies are some of the band's best but the harsher sections fall flat and most of them I feel could've been recorded with cleans and made the songs stronger.

I'm not convinced that I need to listen to this... but, I probably will anyway.

stupid

Album Rating: 3.0

Jesse only seems generic because he pretty much set the bar for every second and third wave melodic metalcore vocalist after. Howard has a much deeper, more unique range tho.

Album Rating: 4.0

not anymore