Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

uhh

Album Rating: 5.0

uhhhhhhhhhh

Album Rating: 5.0

can i get uhhhhhh

Album Rating: 5.0

LOUDER

Album Rating: 4.5

Thrice and LB no chance



I think this is my fav core-ish disc since Constellations, or something around those lines. 16 songs and I could listen to this most days without getting bored

Album Rating: 4.0

This puts that boring Mastodon album to shame. And yea Keith's voice is donezo. Wonder how that'll affect any future music with these guys

Album Rating: 5.0

I wonder what happened between the last tour and this one.

I still had a lot of fun last night but damn half the time he was having the crown sing and the other half he was… not sounding great. Most of his singing parts were fine but he sounds like his throat is shredded when he screams

Album Rating: 5.0

I WILL LIVE FOREVER UNLESS I DREAM UP SOMETHING BETTER

Album Rating: 3.5

why does planet shit rub me the wrong way so much

Album Rating: 4.5

it's definitely the most on-the-nose and uninteresting from a lyrical standpoint

Album Rating: 5.0

Planet Shit is many things but boring isn't one of them

Album Rating: 4.5

Planet Shit is such a great song. Yeah definitely wouldn't call it boring

Album Rating: 5.0

you're obviously obsessed with this album

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

just wrote a little introduction to this album for a group of friends where each member can rec an album in rotation once a week.

it doesn't quite work as a review but i might aswell post it here anyway:





We all saw it coming, it was only a matter of time. The writing was on the wall. We're talking about Every Time I Die today. I know, that name sounds like a mid 00s scene-core band, but don’t be fooled, this band is authentic metallic punk to the core (heh). They formed in 1998 in Buffalo, NY and released their debut album in 2001. They gained early success with their sophomore effort “Hot Damn!” in 2003, which is considered a game-changer of its genre, fusing southern rock stylings with the converge-esque mathy metalcore established on their debut. This southern rock tinge became sort of a calling card of the band (ironically coming from a band that could basically only be more northern within the US if they lived in Alaska).

Their whole discography is consistently great, which makes it even more impressive that they just released arguably their best album after all these years.

Radical is their ninth album and also their longest clocking in at 51 minutes with 16 tracks in total. I dig all their records but be prepared to encounter some drops in production should you decide to explore their discography coming from Radical, mainly because this album just sounds immaculate, thanks to Will Putney delivering his best work to date as a producer, not least according to himself.

This album offers ridiculously awesome breakdowns like on “The Whip” or “Distress Rehearsal”, intoxicating grooves like on “Post-Boredom” or “All This And War” and even some serene mellow moments like the last part on the awesome “People Verses” or the song “Thing With Feathers” dedicated to the recently deceased Buckley sister. There are also nods to other bands on here, Sly with a System of a Down feeling and White Void with a very Deftones inspired hook come to mind. Overall though, what you get on here is wild, extremely angry and brutal metalcore with that distinct southern twang.

I couldn’t possibly pick favorites on this but if I had to choose a duo of tracks it would be the two last tracks “People Verses” and “We Go Together”, with the former being supremely beautiful in its last third while the closer just being an absolute tour de force in experimentation and trippiness while still bringing the hard bops.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Maybe you’ve seen me repeatedly quote lyrics in the last two weeks, those were all from this album. Keith Buckley not only is an amazingly powerful vocalist but always was one of the best lyricists in the genre.



Down here they eat, fuck and ravage

A new breed of white, ancient savage

Wicked men with cross in hand

Praying for bodies to scavenge



A prison ship of bloat and rot

They can't just have, we must have not

Dark red speck, colossal wreck

The Ark crashes into the rocks

- A Colossal Wreck



This album seems to have more rousing scream-along parts than any of their previous outings. Standout examples can be found on nearly every track here, the end of Hostile Architecture comes to mind for me first: after 2 minutes of mathcore goodness they go into a buildup with Buckley subserviently repeating the phrase I’m sorry over and over before exploding into an utterly cathartic breakdown and Buckley rather defiantly asks what he actually did wrong though. The most blatant example of lyrical messaging might be the track “Planet Shit” which bluntly talks about guillotining the ultra rich elite (in case the album title wasn’t obvious enough). I could go on and on about impressive lyrical moments on this thing but you will come around to discovering them for yourselves so I won’t waste your time further here.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

It’s only been two weeks since this album’s release, but it already gets hailed as one of the best albums ever created in its genre and I personally could not put this down for more than a day since it’s release. Easily my favorite album in the last few years.



PS. One of the band members is a wrestler by the way.

Album Rating: 4.5

I have never heard pummeling used as a negative description lmao

Some cannot simply handle these meaty riffs

Album Rating: 4.5

"Slipknot's last album [...] objectively better than this"



I mean I like that album but. no

"I have never heard pummeling used as a negative description lmao"
lol same (possibly) but this is more because metalbros massively overuse any vocab with intense nuance in positive contexts than the word's actual meaning so idk #iampummelling

Album Rating: 5.0

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