Album Rating: 4.0

":Damn Excuses is the heaviest song they've wrote since reforming and it has absolutely no impact lmfao"



the production is a big part of that lack of impact IMO



Out of Luck and Cycle are a surprisingly good one-two punch because there's actual dynamics and the songwriting gives some room to breathe

Album Rating: 4.0

Out of Luck is actually incredible god damn

Album Rating: 4.0

atheist band bad



can't believe I let you guys trick me into believing new one wouldn't be mid as hell

Album Rating: 3.0

it's so bland

Album Rating: 4.5

Admit it, this band could write literally anything and some of you would show up every 2 years to say “this is so mid” and dip. Y’all made up your mind years ago that you would never give this band another chance. Some of the songwriting here is on par with DTGL

Album Rating: 5.0

aight thats a stretch

Album Rating: 4.5

How? It would not be hard to pick one song here that is better than one song from DTGL. Out of Luck beats the ass out of Everyone Looks So Good From Here, which is a fine song but riddled with generic chuggy breakdowns. Salmarnir is a mediocre interlude, I would take No Oasis over that track easily

butt is pissed

Album Rating: 5.0

pissin out his ass

Album Rating: 4.5

Lol I’m just so tired of this view that bands’ old albums are preserved in gold and nothing can ever touch them again. I see it everywhere, not just with Underoath. Like yo let’s give some credit where it’s due. Spencer sounds better on this than like 90% of other recent metalcore releases.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yes that is a scientific metric.

Album Rating: 4.0

Admire the enthusiasm butt but the new one doesn't hold a candle to DTGL

Album Rating: 5.0

ok yea most of this stuff tops salmarnir but thats not what "on par with dtgl implies" lol. also, altho i do love out of luck and like it the most out of anything on the new one, i still dig everyone looks so good from here more

Since we're all venting, can I also say that DTGL hasn't really aged well for me? I listened to it last year and I just wasn't feeling it as much as I used to

Album Rating: 4.0

Nah it still rules. Forever and always.

Album Rating: 4.5

The production on the new one is such ass

Album Rating: 4.5

I also recently relistened to DTGL and maybe that’s partly where I’m coming from, because even though it’s still a solid 4.5 for me, it’s definitely a product of its time. Lots of 2000s post hardcore tropes and if it came out today it wouldn’t be received nearly as well, though I understand that’s not fair and you could say the same about almost anything.

Album Rating: 4.0

butt is bold of you to assume I'm a dtgl stan



I really wanted to like this record, trust me, on repeated listens I feel it's growing a bit on me, funny how this is the direction I kinda hoped they would aim for for since the reunion I just don't think it's all that well executed



also the drums sound like shit in the mix

Album Rating: 5.0

dtgl's writing is awesome and ive only grown to appreciate it more and more. despite being pretty "of its time" its song structures are really adventurous and rarely hinge on repetition yet all the parts transition from one another so seamlessly

There isn't a single song on the new album that holds a candle to Moment Suspended in Time. And thats just ONE song out of the dozens on DTGL. And this isn't me talking as a guy that nostalgia jerks over the band's older albums. Its just me being truthful.