Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Yeah Jake is a monster on this. I wonder if Dustin is helping with the highs because I didn't think Jake really did them anymore, but some of these sound straight off Messengers

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

One minor gripe is I wish they explored the synth parts on the closer more

Album Rating: 3.5

Which of the newer ones should I check next? I can see this one being a grower, I was surprised at how much I dug it

Album Rating: 4.0

Death Below is great too when you're not paying attention to the slop album cover

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Not sure how many you've heard, jr, but Rescue and Restore/Found in Far Away Places/Death Below are all great. R&R is a lot of people's favorite from them

Album Rating: 3.5

Leveler was the last new one I heard before today. I'll give R&R a spin soon

Album Rating: 4.0

"One minor gripe is I wish they explored the synth parts on the closer more"



Absolutely agree. When I heard that I started thinking... oh, damn, they really hit on something here, and we got a satisfying resolution, but I found myself wanting to hear the alternate universe version or even alternate universe album where they took a weird turn and dark-synthed more.

Album Rating: 4.5

awesome to see so many back on board! and yes jake really does sound the best as he ever has. it's so rare for a band to make a really good "return to roots" album. lots of disasters and embarrassments but this is up there with their best. wonder if next they'll go back to the old well or a new direction. either way it will definitely be at least solid haha.

Album Rating: 4.5

I will continue to love them regardless but I also will continue to hope for a curveball lol. I never hold my breath but would be sweet. But yeah if they go back to heavier shorter mad jams I'm bout it

Album Rating: 4.5

i'd like to see them drop a full prog metal album, they could definitely do it

Album Rating: 4.5

Jake is outrageous on this thing. Album didn't didn't click with me much on my first few listens but it's really pulling me in now.

Album Rating: 4.5

@Futures a few months before dropping the album, they asked on their socials what kind of songs would fans like to hear on the next record, and I said the same thing. Technically they are one of the most capable metalcore bands (if not the most), and they've had some proggier cuts for a while on their records.



As for this one, hard to even say how happy I am with this record, and to see so many people coming back to ABR, but I'm really biased, these guys have always been my "confort food" band.

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah i could totally see them stripping back the metalcore elements and making something really cool. they've always done clean proggy sections so well. would love to hear a full album of that.



and couldn't agree more with that second statement! can always flip on some sbr and have a good time

Album Rating: 3.5

"'Constellations was their last truly stellar release.' "



Rescue and Restore clears Constellations. If ABR ever sounds like R&R again I will be ecstatic.

Album Rating: 4.5

This is a stellar release.

Album Rating: 4.5

found in far away places is so underappreciated, more people should go back and revisit that one

Album Rating: 4.5

That one took forever to click with me but I do love it now. At release it felt like they pigeon holed prog elements into metalcore songs and it felt disjointed instead of fluid. But yeah I like it more now

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah i think that is their most proggy. would love if they leaned more in that direction. but really they can do any style of metalcore well.

Album Rating: 3.0

Yooo LFG, Futures. Great writeup.



Never rly checked these guys out before outside of a couple songs i heard years back. Gonna give this a proper go

I need to tackle a discog run on these guys. Too many highly rated albums to ignore.

I’ve only heard a handful of their songs though and while pretty good, sounded kindof same-y. But I know the nuances will prob emerge with more listens.

Seems like the perfect band to do a front to back chronological run too, which is always my preference.