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| 0.0 | JasonCarne | November 7th 18 |
This band has been writing the same 3 songs for like 5 albums now.
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| 4.0 excellent | Toondude | November 8th 18 |
"Hey mods can you do your job and remove all these premature 5s?? It's fucking up the 2018 best of chart, no reason this should be #2. Album will be average as always these dudes have been releasing the same song for years."
This is coming from a guy who rated this a month before it was released
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| 4.5 superb | Macros | November 9th 18 |
The "this just sounds like their last X albums" judgement is just a lazy cliche by now. This is a
powerful, emotionally evocative modern metalcore record that rewards a close listen, and I suspect
will only get stronger the more one lives with it. As anyone would expect, this is their most
mature record. Heavy both musically and thematically, it may be their defining LP, and one of the
most important to come from the genre.
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| 4.5 superb | RustCohle | November 7th 18 |
This is insanely good, the melodies, the feels, never thought they could pull this after what has happened.
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| 4.0 excellent | Stormy Smiley Face | October 29th 18 |
This might be the most important metal album in recent years. The singles are stained rwith powerful emotions and leave everything on the table. It's frighteningly good.
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| 2.5 average | mirak2 | November 9th 18 |
Although I want to like it, the loss of main writer is heavily felt and the album feels very generic.
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| 4.0 excellent | eljonny | November 16th 18 |
Melodic metal/metalcore/industrial-tinted greatness. The vocals are excellent, albeit overly constrained imo. Everything is approaching excellence without feeling polished; you can feel the rawness and emotion through your speakers. If this didn't have so many simplistic breakdowns, distilling the quality a bit, I think this might actually be a 5 for me. 4.3 if I could give it that, 4 since I can't.
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| 1.5 very poor | BlazinBlitzer | November 11th 18 |
Holy Hell, Batman! How are we supposed to tolerate this trash heap of an album? Batman: ¯_(?)_/¯
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| 3.5 great | po0ty | November 10th 18 |
I've been following these guys for about 10 years now and I'm so proud and thankful that this record exists. It would have been so easy after Tom's death for them to give up touring and making music. But they didn't. They gave a middle finger to death and didn't let it destroy the legacy that Tom had built. rI didn't expect them to reinvent themselves and they don't with Holy Hell. But in many cases it feels like Tom is right there in the room writing the record with them and that's an accomplishment in itself.
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| 3.5 great | Amir | November 9th 18 |
Very powerful and strong release. One of the best metal releases this year.
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| 3.5 great | teolaiho | November 9th 18 |
Maaannn I wish they would have done something more different on this one. It's still great but too many of the songs feel too similar structurally. It has some really great moments and Sam's vocals are insane. The lyrics hit hard but I wish it brought something new on the table after LF//LT and AOGHAU
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| 4.0 excellent | SlyZ | November 9th 18 |
It is okay...could be better but the vocals are one dimensional as fuck. This high screaming thing can be annoying very fast.
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| 3.0 good | DarthHideous1 | November 8th 18 |
Considering that The Seventh Cirlce (a song under 2 minutes) is one of the better songs says a lot about this album. A bit of disappointment if I'm being honest. Seems like they replaced a lot of the flare the last two albums possessed with orchestral parts and synths.
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| 0.0 | Chino smoking it up! | November 7th 18 |
Architects - wasted talented in metal music for little girls...and little boys who want to score
with little girls + same music/sonwriting over and over and over...and over + the guy singing "and
now get prepared causE I'm GONNA START TO SCREEEAM!!!".
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| 0.0 | ItsTheSquirrel | October 18th 18 |
After watching the Holy Ghost documentary I really felt these songs. Never before have I started crying while listening to music
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| 5.0 classic | Wigmore | September 12th 18 |
For a band that lost there head writer. It still sounds like good old ARCHITECTS. There is still a future
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| 3.0 good | Barksdale | June 7th 22 |
Best Tracks: Hereafter, Holy Hell, The Seventh Circle, Doomsday.
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| 4.5 superb | Blazer223 | September 10th 21 |
Detailed Rating: 9.25/10rBest Songs: Mortal After All, A Wasted Hymn, Holy Hell, Hereafter
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| 5.0 classic | MaidenUFO | June 24th 21 |
The trilogy of ther masterpieces ends with this album. The lyrical content after the Tom's death is so intense and at the same high level, while the sound has differences with their previous two, with more emphasis on keybords and the atmosphere, without losing their identity. All the songs here from start to end are masterpieces, but i would say the last one "Wasted Hymn" is maybe my favorite song ever written.
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| 3.5 great | ChuppaC | January 3rd 21 |
Tragedy imbues an ineffable quality to art (e.g. "The Crow") and this album is clearly another great example. While I smirk and tend to agree with those that say this group has been releasing the same album for years, I beg exception to this one. The lyrics to "Death is not Defeat" save it from mediocrity for me. The title track isn't bad and found myself banging my head to "Royal Beggars" as well.
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| 2.5 average | blackmetalhipster | October 20th 20 |
Architects for some reason think it's a good idea to release Lost Forever//Lost Together for a third time
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| 3.0 good | grandbazaar | February 6th 20 |
Pretty generic, sound is reminescent of As I Lay Dying. What puts them above average is their flawless execution and the palpable emotion they injected in their songs.
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| 4.5 superb | davezillaMP3 | January 19th 20 |
this is definitely going to be one of the staple /definitive albums in metalcore for sure.
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| 3.0 good | Ectier | May 26th 19 |
This had no lasting power and grew off me hard. Barely come back to it at all. A lot of the songs blended together
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| 3.5 great | InFiction | March 25th 19 |
To be perfectly blunt, this record does sound a lot like All Our Gods... part 2, but considering the circumstances surrounding it, I guess that's kind of the point? I'd take this record with a grain of salt, as it doesn't take a huge step forward in sound, but certainly fulfills its purpose. Highlights: 'Hereafter', 'Royal Beggars', 'Modern Misery', 'The Seventh Circle'.
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| 5.0 classic | DirtySnapchat | January 25th 19 |
This record not only lived up to expectations but surpassed them, masterpiece in my eyes.
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| 0.0 | MCDEst2001 | January 21st 19 |
Amongst the all of the anticipation, amongst all of the hype, Architects unfortunately disappoint.
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| 3.0 good | kalkwiese | November 17th 18 |
It's nice to see these guy pulling off something like this even though their main songwriter died, at this point it's just more of the same with lesser songwriting. This bands need to move on.
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| 4.0 excellent | DreamAgain | November 9th 18 |
Pretty much my album of the year tbh and probably architects best album
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| 3.5 great | GhostFame | November 9th 18 |
every song is still the same but I like his vocals on this one
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| 0.0 | charlie15 | November 9th 18 |
It really does sound like the same shit over and over. Nothing will beat hollow crown but I?ll have this on repeat for a while and see if it grows on me. Actually think the released tracks are the highlights of the album so far.
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| 3.5 great | MegaResurrectedJake4 | November 8th 18 |
straight-up superior mainstream metalcore at this point, no doubt. Thought I'd moved on, especially after the singles were shit and ticked me off, but album actually won me over. half of it still feels pretty grimy, but the other half or maybe a third feels very right. holy hell was the first keep for me, just barely made it. then dying to heal made the real claim. seventh circle wasn't a rehash. and a wasted hymn closed it well enough. emotions were definitely flowing by the end. though I admit there was a vast space for righteousness to lay hammer... maybe next time, on Architects... r
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