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| 2.0 poor | Halez | February 21st 19 |
I want to like this, but this just does nothing for me. The vocals are significantly worse than the likes of Wristmeetrazor. There's not much structure to their sound even for spastic hardcore. Not to mention, it honest to god feels like these guys are just twiddling around on their instruments at points.
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| 3.0 good | MAN0 | March 5th 19 |
Maybe this just points me as an uncultured swine, but it feels to me like just Canada Songs
with less ideas and more polarizing vocals. - - - I mean, it's
kinda good, but for 18 fucking minutes, it somehow feels way too long. There's only so many
"WHAAA WHAA WHAAA *CHUGCHUCHUGCHUG*"s you can stand until you want to switch back to
Dillinger
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| 4.0 excellent | cjbizzlebizzle | March 22nd 19 |
Grind influenced mathcore that absolutely crushes from beginning to end. The best things SeeYouSpaceCowboy has going for them is the variation in the vocals, the short and concise songwriting that provides dynamic shifts in energy and the ability to write riffs and breakdowns that could make even the most lifeless slug want to get up and fly around. Most of the tracks on this collection do very well to contrast absurdly heavy rhythms with the dissonant, mathy leads that mathcore is known for. It has balance. It never feels like the vocalist needs to shut up, it never feels like they use the dissonance as a crutch and it never feels like it is just riff after riff used to setup breakdowns that try too hard to be heavy. Back to the vocal variation. You have the sassy talking vocals, the desperate cries, the full on screams and the more sparingly but so clutch deep guttural growls. There is almost nothing worse than a mathcore album where every vocal is uttered in the same way, this is the exact opposite and it provides endless value. Songs for the Firing Squad gets better with every listen and at 18 minutes it is the perfect length for a grindy mathcore record to wear you out but not leave you feeling beat.
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| 3.5 great | SinNanna | February 28th 19 |
The vocals can get a little hit or miss for me when they're not growling or shrieking, but I can't deny this does make me nostalgic for all the similarly spastic and grindy metalcore from the early to mid-2000's.
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| 3.7 great | Erwann S. STAFF | January 5th 23 |
Grindy mathcore with emo lyrics = sasscore, apparently? Dissonance is well-used here, and the vocals are pretty diverse - in that there's talking, shrieking, growling, and something that's kinda like crying and yelling. The whole lot is quite dynamic, even if some tracks are more directionless than truly wide-ranging.
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| 3.0 good | RottenRamone | March 30th 20 |
This album definitely breathes some new life into heavy music. I would call this metalcore or screamo but Songs For The Firing Squad really invents its own sound. But I see this mostly as experimentation with unfortunately not a ton of gems. The majority of the songs are very close but do not quite sink their hooks in. The exception is "Self Help Specialist Ends Own Life" which I have probably listened to over 50 times since I first heard it.
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| 3.5 great | WeAreReturningHome | April 29th 19 |
when i was listening to the first two songs i was oh cool another heavy hardcore band but rwhen those cleans came in for the rest of the album it felt pretty awkward and made me laugh ra lil bit. musically this band is rpretty good but i think they would be a little better if they didn't have awkward parts with rthose clean vocals in sections like at the end of the 3rd song
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| 3.5 great | KyleLee | February 28th 19 |
Great abrasive metal-math-noise-hardcore-pop-post-core half an hour experience. Only complaint really is by the end their ideas did seem to be stretched thin.
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| 5.0 classic | HisBelovedMaker | February 9th 19 |
See You Next Tuesday is back with a different name!
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| 3.5 great | Nine | January 29th 19 |
Man, would you take a gander at those track titles.
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| 4.0 excellent | goblinilbog | January 29th 19 |
This is a breath of fresh air in heavy music to me right now. Emo vocals and lyrics, dissonance, odd grooves. I'm into it
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| 3.5 great | Chino smoking it up! | January 28th 19 |
sassgrind...LOL WTF? is a Joke? Heavy growls are heavy AF! 18 minutes of "music" take it
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| 4.0 excellent | Ryus | March 29th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Slex | January 5th 23 |
| 3.0 good | dballs | December 15th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 14th 22 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | December 31st 21 |
| 3.5 great | V3XED | November 15th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | bnest | November 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | May 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | akimbo | February 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | joseph | February 4th 21 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | September 9th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | kawaiiP | June 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ben H | June 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ziggity | April 14th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Xirae | March 13th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Sam C. | January 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | hung0ver | November 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Shukal | October 29th 19 |
| 3.5 great | doc23 | October 14th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Krelkin | October 13th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Jamdbz | October 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Panty420 | September 30th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Adamn | May 8th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ughemo | April 22nd 19 |
| 3.0 good | Prole | March 31st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | March 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Haon | March 6th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | March 5th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cormano | February 28th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Evrimen | February 28th 19 |
| 3.0 good | CGayda | February 17th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | cazzill | February 1st 19 |
| 4.5 superb | "Tab" | January 30th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tranqyl | January 28th 19 |
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