this is just one of those bands that I often keep my distance from but dissect the good parts and wish I could make a frankenstein's monster out of
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
Nah i think he loves the band, but for me their best days are behind them. I love sams cleans when they are used well and the lyrics arent awful. Gone with the wind has some of his best vocal performance and Colony Collapse
This is my teenybopper band. Ive a soft spot
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bro I'm spinning gwtw rn it's actually impressive
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Album Rating: 2.5
I kinda love this band but it’s so obvious.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I personally would love to hear something between abrasiveness of Hollow Crown and atmosphere and melody of Lost Forever // Lost Together / All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us. Like a bit more of songs like Follow the Water or Youth Is Wasted on the Young.
It's not gonna happen though. It's sempiternalcore nowadays with only small glimpse of good ol' Architects.
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I've bought the CD cause it was cheap as peanuts, have been jamming it in the car, it's perfectly fine for what it is, I can nod along to it whilst I'm driving down the motorway, some cool highlights but the mundane parts are quite inoffensive, nothing to really disappoint, it's just that apart from the good bits everything else is average as hell.
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Album Rating: 2.8
Not gonna lie, I’m surprised by the avg for this; I was expecting it to be far lower.
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Album Rating: 2.0
This is mildly better than the album before, so people are gaslamped into thinking they actually like this
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Album Rating: 2.5
bmth mimicking is very distracting
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Band should have given up after Hollow Crown
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Album Rating: 3.0
Nah, 2014-2018 was peak Architects imo. All three albums made in that era (LF / LT, AOGHU and Holy Hell) were really good.
I like mathcore etc., it's among my favorite genres, but Architects were at their best when doing djenty metalcore/post-hardcore with those postrockish ambiences and atmosphere.
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LF/LT and AOGHAO are leagues above Holy Hell. Band should have thrown in the towel after dropping Doomsday.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I agree, the decline started after AHEGAO (getting that abbreviation right is impossible) but was not yet as apparent on Holy Hell.
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holy fuck the opener on this is so bad
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lol agreed
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Album Rating: 2.5
lol i think the opener is the best here
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Album Rating: 3.0
Same.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I'm still hearing that unadventurous, boiler plate chorus from previous albums occasionally, (Landmines). However underneath the boisterous and over inflated production there is genuine improvement in song craft, finding some more compelling melodies and ability to develop a chorus. In my opinion they should have the courage of their convictions to become the anthemic rock band they clearly want to be. The old metal core tropes are a ball and chain, as if they're constantly questioning who they really want to be. Seeing Red might be a good ironic dig at us, but it doesn't make sense in context as a lot of the album is pandering to the old fans. You can't please us, it's time to move on in my opinion
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Album Rating: 4.0
Just to mention that I saw them live 2 weeks ago (with opening by the awesome Brutus) and they were spectacular, even though the setlist was absurdly slanted towards the last 3 albums. Much better than my admittedly low expectations, at least. It all works much better in the context of a live show, energetic, fun and anthemic. Sam is the real star, but they are a very competent arena heavy rock band
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
They were blasting with Elegy.
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