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| 1.0 awful | Brett W | July 1st 17 |
This album is straight trash. The band is mostly garbage too. The Death Card had a few bangers, and
Oliolioxenfree has a breakdown I love, but this album has no redeeming qualities. Tyler sounds like shit, his
singing is bad, his lyrics have no thought. Which wouldn't be such a huge problem is the riffing was anything but
average. Their guitarists seriously need to learn to riff. There's no cool rhythm, no catchy guitar lines. nothing.
This is cookie cutter cringe emo metalcore. Fan girls would eat that shit up, but for someone who has listened to
music, this is garbage and that's a fact.
I am mostly just disappointed in this record, not because i expected better. But because i'm disappointed it exists
in general.
(coming from someone who 5'd King 810 and stands by it)
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| 4.0 excellent | m00nr0ck | July 1st 17 |
If you want something heavy and pissed-off. This is for you.
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| 1.0 awful | WeAreReturningHome | July 20th 18 |
This whole album was a fucking cringe fest. Make it Hurt is probably one of the worst songs I've heard in all music in general not just metalcore. I remember the first time I heard it, had to remove the song from the album on my apple music it was that bad lol. had to remove half of the album actually. What the fuck happened to Tyler during this time? lyrics were very edgy, like they were taken from the diary of a 15 year old hot topic emo kid who just got admitted to a mental hospital. those clean vocals I doubt tyler could pull off live and they were too high pitched to be listenable.
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| 1.5 very poor | Mateo | December 31st 17 |
This album was goddamn train wreck, from the second I heard "Make It Hurt" live. I knew we were all in for a real special treat once the next couple of songs came out. This album has a great concept behind it that I truly appreciate. It takes a lot of courage to spill out your guts for everyone to see like Tyler Dennen does through out the record (read up on this at the beginning of the "All Smiles" music video), but it's so stringy and dragged out that the record as a whole represents a child's phone toy made out of plastic cups and string. And it really does disappoint, because if the album wasn't mixed like a goddamn Monster Jam, and didn't sound like one 38 minute song (not that there's anything wrong with that. Look up Sleep) with Tyler's horrible new vocal style, it would be a great concept album, much like "The Lovers/The Devil" was. This could tell the story of a broken/dying man, and his trip up and out. But no. It's the same essential lyricism every time. Before writing this, I thought I could show how this album could redeem itself. But no. I realize that to redeem themselves, Tyler needs to get vocal lessons (watch the live video of Sworn In live at The Foundry. Kinda speaks for itself, huh?), and they need to really sit down and write another concept album, because if they could take the quality of "The Death Card", and the pure beautifulness of "The Lovers/The Devil", then I would easily put them back toward the top of my favorites list. But this entire album was just one step forward, and thirteen steps back.
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| 1.5 very poor | snepsts | November 5th 17 |
Instead of continuing to expand and push the boundaries, Sworn In decides to put mediocrity on front stage. I actually really like Make it Hurt and they do that style pretty well, but it just gets to whiny and drags its feet too often to be fun or interesting and ends up feeling shallow. Big disappointment.
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| 1.0 awful | ktjammin | October 27th 17 |
The Death Card had a few bangers on it and was solid overall, but this and their previous album have been god awful.
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| 3.0 good | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 15th 22 |
| 1.5 very poor | goonmob | January 20th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Brabiz | November 4th 20 |
| 1.0 awful | ian b | June 17th 20 |
| 1.0 awful | Renee | April 16th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Renée | October 7th 19 |
| 1.5 very poor | Prole | May 13th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Custy | February 23rd 19 |
| 2.5 average | ARTV | June 27th 18 |
| 1.0 awful | Tara | September 25th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | lewzis | August 18th 17 |
| 3.0 good | NoSons | August 13th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | July 11th 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | betray | July 2nd 17 |
| 5.0 classic | ORTCEZ | June 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | willzor | June 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Maximo | June 28th 17 |
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