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Emeritus
Reviews 199
Approval 96%
Soundoffs 33
News Articles 41
Band Edits + Tags 35
Album Edits 279
Album Ratings 1675
Objectivity 86%
Last Active 10-29-22 11:48 am
Joined 11-26-06
Review Comments 17,652
| My All Time Metal Let-downs
Sometimes, great bands just stumble... and in the cases of these albums, smash their face on glass covered concrete. | | 1 |  | In Flames
Reroute To Remain
Oh man oh man oh man... when I realized this was the great In Flames... I almost cried. Mainstream metalcore sounds back the lackluster vocals, In Flames really strayed off their path, and still haven't returned. | | 2 |  | Trivium
The Crusade
Ascendancy was awesome... just plain sick. Then along came (surprise) metalcore... it seems to ruin a lot of great bands. The Crusade is just trash, a huge Metallica ripoff and just a plain sh*tty album. | | 3 |  | Into Eternity
The Scattering Of Ashes
I loved Buried In Oblivion, LOVED it. Then a vocalist change, which I think can either make or ruin bands (Dark Tranqullity gained international fame after Mikael Stanne took over on vocals). Here, not so much. The high pitched wails and sudden changes to clean singing, not my style. Into Eternity has a lot to do to go back to their former selves. | | 4 |  | Nightrage
Sweet Vengeance
So called "super-bands" usually never do too well. Nightrage, which features an all-star lineup including Tomas Lindberg (Ex- At The Gates)and Marios Iliopoulos (Ex-Exhumation), this CD was supposed to be a great melodic death album. Instead it was quite mainstream, with not many great, catchy songs. A big letdown for me, as I was a huge At The Gates fan, and was expecting something more. | | 5 |  | As I Lay Dying
Frail Words Collapse
Boy was I surprised. I first heard As I Lay Dying from my friend, who played me the song "Forever" which was a great metal sound, and I actually thought "Wow, a Metalcore band which really isn't that hardcore, but more metal." Ummmmmmmmm not really. Upon buying the CD, I was disgusted when listening to other songs. Sure, the vocalist's scream is great, but my god, his annoying whine of a clean voice is unbearable. Totally emo, totally mainsteam, totally metalcore, totally bad. Steer very clear. | |
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12.30.06 | The Scattering of Ashes owns though... :(
And Trivium has always sucked. :thumb: | ToWhatEnd
12.30.06 | AILD's CD wasn't that bad. | Angmar
12.30.06 | Into eternity has not yet released a bad CD so you lose :) | Tyler
12.30.06 | Into Eternity's debut was pretty bad, actually. | Eakflanderyof
12.30.06 | I agree with the In Flames one. I don't really like the rest of the bands on your list. I have never heard Nightrage though I love At the Gates. | dude64
12.30.06 | It's cool to hate Trivium, and since I hate them, I'm cool | Shadows
12.30.06 | I agree with just about all of this. The only changes: Trivium and As I Lay Dying have always sucked but The Scattering of Ashes is damn good. | Crysis
12.30.06 | Well I put The Scattering Of Ashes on here just because of my extremely high expectations for this album, it just wasn't what I expected... not to say it was a bad CD, just one which let me down. The riffing and all that was still enjoyable, but not up to par with what I was used to of Into Eternity. | summonerofmetal
12.31.06 | I would add Metallica with the Black Album to this list. | wakeupdead
01.03.07 | I thought The Crusade was awesome! I havent heard their other stuff yet though, so it was all probably a comparison to it. | Angmar
02.15.07 | "Into Eternity's debut was pretty bad, actually."
Oh yeah i forgot it was pretty bad. | SylentEcho
08.02.07 | why The Crusade? |
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