But where are the melodiessss??

Everyone was so hyped for the comeback that I got interested in this. Listening, I remember that this band always bored me. I like a few songs here but overall, meh.

Album Rating: 2.5

aftermath is fantastic, love some of the melodic leads but most of it just really doesn't resonate with me/reminds me of amidst the grave's demons too often, sadly

Album Rating: 3.0

Second half of this supremely owns

Bass player just got kicked out.

I feel really weird about that. I have zero attachment to this band and its members but cutting the guy out for a single occasion where he fucked up and dropped an N bomb, which was FIVE YEARS ago, after he publicly apologized for it, seems really harsh. Very uncool that it happened but his removal basically spits in the face of whatever personal growth he has striven for since then. Idk, maybe I'm too nice.

I think what makes it different is the fact that he only apologized after being called out. Idk. I’m not gonna pretend to be perfect, all you have to do is look at the entire attitude era of sputnikmusic.

Directly calling someone that is pretty shitty though.

Well supposedly he apologized privately back when it actually happened, so of course he wouldn't take a private matter public, nobody would.

Album Rating: 3.0

Riley recently tweeted he called Shod in 2015 and apologized. Yet Shod decides to bring this back up again 5 years later given the social/political climate and is demanding another apology? Alright cool. Also love how Shod repeatedly throws homophobic slurs at people on Twitter, guess we'll just have to let that hypocrisy slide given the times.

I looked through his feed a bit and he (Shod) seems like a raging asshole, which makes the situation even more ugly.

I think we all can agree that he shouldn't of said what he said, but why go this far, so soon? He apologized privately to Shod and publicly to the fans. What else should he have done? Donate his life savings?

Album Rating: 3.5

Shitty situation for sure smh

boring af

Album Rating: 3.5

Nah rules

What irks me is that the band didn't do it for any reason other than saving face and bowing to social media pressure. They didn't do it because it was right, regardless of what they may say. He's been in their band for the past 5 years since the incident. They either saw that he was racist and ignored it or he has given them no reason to question his character since. But now it's out there and people are talking, so fuck him, he's gotta go. It's just cowardly and weak.

If he's genuinely a racist then of course, fuck him, but I don't think that has anything to do with why the band kicked him.

Album Rating: 3.5

This good

Album Rating: 3.5

"What irks me is that the band didn't do it for any reason other than saving face and bowing to social media pressure. They didn't do it because it was right, regardless of what they may say. He's been in their band for the past 5 years since the incident. They either saw that he was racist and ignored it or he has given them no reason to question his character since. But now it's out there and people are talking, so fuck him, he's gotta go. It's just cowardly and weak."



Perfectly said. I can't imagine how Jim feels right now knowing his brothers kicked him out for a 5 year old incident they didn't even witness. This entire situation is so fucking frustrating I don't even want to think about it. I'm not saying what Jim did was right, but we all make mistakes and say things we don't mean.

Album is everything I wanted it to be and then more. This makes Dear Youth sound like a stale, tired effort.

The flow is perfect, the songwriting on display is as strong as they've ever been.

This is the album 2020 needed. Not having local sport to get pumped up for right now is a travesty because this shit makes me want to run through brick walls.



All of this makes the Jim situation even harder to swallow. Nobody should be trialled by social media, years after the fact and after making an apology. The fact that this album literally contains the lyric 'I'm more than my mistakes, more than one bad day' makes his departure look horrific in all honesty.

I won't add anything else about it because the album is so strong I just want to revel in it with no negative backstory.

(ps. Had his crime been recent or been a Norma Jean situation I wouldn't feel as strongly. This is literally only about the revisionist cancel culture I can't stand and not the racism remark in question. I find racism abhorrent also).

Album Rating: 4.0

Sucks about the bass player but seriously, how hard is it not to call someone the n word?

Album Rating: 3.0

Yea, on the one hand it's like sure he's grown as a person but on the other hand it's like you were grown ass adult and still called somebody a racial slur