| 4.5 superb |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| American Football American Football |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Animosity Animal |
| Arab Strap Philophobia |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Belphegor Goatreich-Fleshcult |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Blur Blur |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz |
ah youthful exuberance the album and still as good as when i first heard it. if you're looking for a fun and chaotic midwest emo album with a punk ethos this is what you need. math rock, post-hardcore, midwest emo, punk and a little experimentation put into a blender for a delicious emo smoothie. great blend of mathy noodling, quiet loud builds, passionate screams and off-kilter singing. drumming on this is also a surprising standout for the genre with speed and constant cymbal crashing blending with the noodley riffs to create controlled chaos. tim kinsella has always been the unheralded brother but he delivers a textbook charming off-key emo vocal performance, his unhinged screams at the end of "little league" are of course the standout.
the fastness and looseness of this along with the almost nonsensical lyrics at points make for something truly special. not sloppy as it is calculated but it has that feel that can only be created by inexperience. the kinsellas, davey von bohlen and victor villarreal were all in great projects after but this might be the one might just be their best collective effort by just being plain fun and capturing that magic lightning in a bottle energy which could only be had in 1995 in the not yet over-saturated emo scene.
check out: "little league" and "oh messy life" |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| Chelsea Grin My Damnation |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Christie Front Drive Stereo |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cynic Focus |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Departures Teenage Haze |
| Despised Icon The Healing Process |
| Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| DIIV Frog In Boiling Water |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| DMA's Hill's End |
| Editors The Back Room |
| Effluence Psychocephalic Spawning |
| Eighteen Visions Until The Ink Runs Out |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Embodyment Embrace the Eternal |
| Emery The Weak's End |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
| Extol Undeceived |
| Eyedea and Abilities By the Throat |
| Flesh Flesh |
| Fontaines D.C. Romance |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet |
| Frank Ocean Blonde |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Girlfriends Girlfriends |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Grenadier Wolves of the Trench |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
| Hands Give Me Rest |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| Impending Doom Baptized in Filth |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| Ingested Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering |
| Interpol Antics |
| Interpol El Pintor |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Last Days of April Angel Youth |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lord Belial Enter the Moonlight Gate |
| Low Double Negative |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Marduk Those of the Unlight |
| Marduk Opus Nocturne |
| Marduk Panzer Division Marduk |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Oasis The Masterplan |
| Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place |
| One Step Closer All You Embrace |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Tranquilizer |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Painted in Exile Revitalized |
| Panzerfaust The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion |
| Penfold Amateurs and Professionals |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Pop Unknown If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra |
| Pygmy Lush Totem |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rorschach Protestant |
| Rotting Christ Non Serviam |
| Rotting Christ Triarchy of the Lost Lovers |
| Rotting Christ A Dead Poem |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father |
| Sadistik and Kid Called Computer The Art of Dying |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| Spoon They Want My Soul |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Testament The New Order |
| Texas Is The Reason Do You Know Who You Are? |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise |
| The Acacia Strain You Are Safe From God Here |
| The Appleseed Cast Mare Vitalis |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The December Drive Handslikegunsandcrashingsounds |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile |
| The Jazz June The Medicine |
| The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up It's Winter Here |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again |
| Tim Hecker Love Streams |
| Title Fight Floral Green |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule |
| Vale of Pnath Between the Worlds of Life and Death |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| Wolves at the Gate VxV |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| 4.0 excellent |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky |
| A Sunny Day in Glasgow Sea When Absent |
| A Thousand Times Repent Virtue Has Few Friends |
| Abigail Williams A Void Within Existence |
| Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader |
| Algernon Cadwallader Demo |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| An Autumn Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City |
| Apogean Cyberstrictive |
| Arab Strap I'm Totally Fine With It Don't Give a Fuck Anymore |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug |
| Arctic Monkeys AM |
| Arkangel Prayers Upon Deaf Ears |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls The Game Of Life |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As Living Arrows Hope and Ruin |
| Ash Borer 2009 Demo |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer |
| Astronautalis This Is Our Science |
| At the Gates Gardens of Grief |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking The Fallen |
| Balance and Composure/Tigers Jaw Split |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk |
| Belphegor Lucifer Incestus |
| Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie |
| Benighted Ekbom |
| Betraying the Martyrs Breathe In Life |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Bird Bone Лейтмотив |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Blur Parklife |
| Blur The Magic Whip |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Botanist VI: Flora |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Braid Frame & Canvas |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf |
| Burzum Burzum |
| By Blood and Iron By Blood and Iron (EP) |
| Cage The Elephant Melophobia |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms |
| Casey Love Is Not Enough |
| Chamberlain Fate's Got A Driver |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden |
| Chinese Football Here comes a new challenger! |
| Circa Survive Descensus |
| Circa Waves Different Creatures |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Contention (US) Artillery From Heaven |
| Convictions I Won't Survive |
| Convictions The Fear of God |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| Cross Bringer Healismus Aeternus |
| Cultist (MA-USA) Slow Suicide |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Deadguy Near-Death Travel Services |
| Deadwater Drowning Deadwater Drowning |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| Defeated Sanity Chronicles of Lunacy |
| Deformity Murder Within Sin |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Delusional Parasitosis Ingurgitating Intestinal Rot |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| Despised Icon Purgatory |
| Direct Hit! Wasted Mind |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless |
| Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia The Poetic Edda |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Black Earth Child |
| Dot Hacker Inhibition |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Drudkh The Swan Road |
| Edaline I Wrote the Last Chapter For You |
| Editors An End Has A Start |
| Emery The Question |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Few And Far Between Three |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| For Today Ekklesia |
| for your health/Shin Guard Death of Spring |
| Free Throw Those Days Are Gone |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Full of Hell and Nothing When No Birds Sang |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| Gerard Way Hesitant Alien |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... |
| Glass Cloud Perfect War Forever |
| God's Reflex Scenes From A Motel Seduction |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram |
| Greet Death Die In Love |
| Greyhaven Stereo Grief |
| Greyhaven Keep It Quiet |
| GridLink Longhena |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
| Haste The Mercury Lift |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges |
| Haste the Day Dreamer |
| Haste the Day Coward |
| Hatebreed Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire |
| Hazzerd The 3rd Dimension |
| Heaven Shall Burn Asunder |
| Helloween Helloween EP |
| Hiroshima Will Burn To The Weight Of All Things |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| Hundred Hands Little Eyes |
| I See Stars Digital Renegade |
| I See Stars New Demons |
| Illyria Wanderlust |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
this is not a big step down from diabolical fullmoon mysticism or pure holocaust at all. maybe it is a touch less memorable in the riff department but it still delivers relentless pure black metal experience. this album's strength is definitely the speed it is played at, pure holocaust is fast but this aims to go even faster. some say that abbath's drumming is sloppy and a touch off but i don't even care when you are constantly blasting at the nonstop pace he is on this. abbath is even more croaky and goblin-like here which perfectly compliments the frostbitten atmosphere.
the thicker wall of sound production actually adds to the album with the drums being very high in the mix, higher than the guitars even and create a unique noisiness when combined with the as always varied fun riffage from demonaz that is albeit a touch muddled compared to pure holocaust. the closer "blashyrkh- mighty ravendark" slows down to mid-tempo for the albums first real breather which ends with a clean melodic fade out that seemingly culminates with some eerie synth work before guitars come screeching in again. an unexpected way to end an album that never stopped the pace it was going at. it is one note in what it's trying to do by cranking the speed to 11 and not letting up but still delivers great riffs and is executed just about as well as you can do it. long live immortal.
check out: "cursed realms of the winterdemons" and "blashyrkh- mighty ravendark" |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. |
| Impending Doom The Serpent Servant |
| In The Midst of Lions The Heart of Man |
| Incarnia Proclamatoin |
| Jawbreaker Dear You |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
| Jimmy Eat World Singles |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Joey Valence and Brae No Hands |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joyce Manor Cody |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To |
solid fun beatdown junz with heavy ass breakdowns that really pop with a nice crunchy guitar tone but very predictable and formulaic besides the great melodic atmospheric closer. it thankfully doesn't overstay it's welcome though. also some more vocal variety like the gutturals at the end of "moss covers all" or hooks like on "the calm that keeps you awake" would've added a lot. a good time but nowhere near aoty material. play at the gym for all your gainz.
edit- this ended up growing on me a bit after a few more jams and going back and listening to "a tear in the fabric of life". this is definitely a bit more varied, a touch more intricate with melodic dissonance breaking up the chugs and has a stronger groove to it which i appreciate. "piece by piece" and almost nu-metal esque "the calm that keeps you awake" stand out on more listens with great breakdown callouts and groovy riffs. the thing that stands out to me on some more listens is how well the album flows as a complete work, i end up getting sucked in and listening to more than i intended. much more memorable than i gave it credit for as i keep coming back for more.
check out: "suffocate" and "sit and mourn" |
| Korn Korn |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Life in Your Way Waking Giants |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Luti-Kriss Throwing Myself |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
| Marduk Dark Endless |
| Marduk Nightwing |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Mayhem Wolf's Lair Abyss |
| Megadeth Countdown To Extinction |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Merauder Master Killer |
| Mercyful Fate Mercyful Fate |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah None |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Mineral February/ M.D. |
| Misericordiam Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility |
| Mock Orange Nines & Sixes |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
| Mortal Treason A Call To The Martyrs |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| NAILS Abandon All Life |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| No Devotion Permanence |
| Nodes of Ranvier Nodes of Ranvier |
| Noise Trail Immersion Tutta la morte in un solo punto |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| Northlane Singularity |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything |
| Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Old Man's Child The Pagan Prosperity |
| On Solid Ground On Solid Ground |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| Orchid Chaos Is Me |
| Orthodox A Door Left Open |
| Owen At Home With Owen |
| Owls Owls |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Pig Destroyer Explosions in Ward 6 |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Everything Else Matters |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Prayer for Cleansing Rain In Endless Fall |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Primordial The Gathering Wilderness |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Reno Kid Sun You've Got To Hurry |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rival Schools United By Fate |
| Rorschach Remain Sedate |
| Rotting Christ Sleep of the Angels |
| Sadistik L'appel Du Vide |
| Salt The Wound Carnal Repercussions |
| Sargeist Satanic Black Devotion |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP |
| ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips |
| See The Light Maranatha |
| See You Next Tuesday Parasite |
| Selbst Despondency Chord Progressions |
| Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion |
| Shadow of the Colossus Shadow of the Colossus |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slayer Haunting The Chapel |
| Slice the Cake Other Slices |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slowdive Slowdive |
| Slowdive Morningrise |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| So Hideous Laurestine |
| Substructure Monolith |
| Suede Coming Up |
| Suffokate No Mercy, No Forgiveness |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
| TesseracT One |
| Testament The Legacy |
| The 1975 The 1975 |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood |
| The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal |
| The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light |
| The Acacia Strain Failure Will Follow |
| The Appleseed Cast The End of the Ring Wars |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes |
| The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children |
| The Casket Lottery Moving Mountains |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Gloria Record A Lull in Traffic |
| The Menzingers Rented World |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses |
| The Player Piano Satellite |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good |
| The Promise Ring The Horse Latitudes |
| The Red Chord Clients |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes |
| The Requiem A Cure to Poison the World |
| The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster |
| The Smile Wall of Eyes |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Time Spent Driving Just Enough Bright |
| Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living |
| Tormentor Anno Domini |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| United Nations The Next Four Years |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| vianova Hit It! |
| Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils |
| Volumes Via |
| Volumes No Sleep |
| Vomitrocious Dystopian Elegy: The Last Echoes of Dying Humanity |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler |
| Waxwing For Madmen Only |
| We Are The Ocean Cutting Our Teeth |
| Weeping Spiritual Barbarism |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Whitechapel Hymns in Dissonance |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Golgotha |
| Within the Ruins Creature |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human |
| Wolves at the Gate Captors |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus |
| 3.5 great |
| $uicideboy$ Radical $uicide |
| 200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures |
| A Feast For Kings Hell On Earth |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| A Season Drive Summer of '73 |
| Ab-Soul Do What Thou Wilt. |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors |
| Aegaeon Dissension |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore |
| alt-J This Is All Yours |
| Amarionette [US] Amarionette |
| Ameonna Goddess Wept |
| Amiensus Reclamation: Part 1 |
| a very solid proggy, melodic black metal album. reminds me of ne obliviscaris, xanthochroid and a bit of alcest. there are some truly gorgeous clean portions on here especially on "sun and moon" the most alcest inspired cut. melodies are a big focus borrowing from melodic dm and the heavy sections focused on that are great. i think there are a bit too many clean sections as opposed to heavy and feel like cleans are used too frequently as well. ended up a bit samey towards the end of a pretty long album. still though, a solid interesting blend of melodic dm, prog and bm that's worth a jam. |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum |
| Anberlin Lowborn |
| Antagony Rebirth |
| Arab Strap The Week Never Starts Round Here |
| Ark of the Covenant Separation |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Hits From the Bow |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream |
| At the Gates At War with Reality |
| Athletics What Makes You Think This Is How It All Ends? |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! |
| Attila Outlawed |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Begging For Incest Awaiting The Fist |
| Beloved Failure On |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI |
| Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn |
| Benton Falls Fighting Starlight |
| Betraying the Martyrs The Hurt, the Divine, the Light |
| Better Lovers Highly Irresponsible |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Black Monolith Passenger |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! |
| Black Sabbath Born Again |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross |
| Black Sabbath Tyr |
| Blasphemy Blood Upon the Altar |
| Bleachers Strange Desire |
| Blessthefall Witness |
| Blessthefall Gallows |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Blood of the Martyrs Once More, with Feeling |
| Bludgeoned Summary Execution |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive |
| Botanist/Oskoreien Green Metal/Deterministic Chaos |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Bring Me The Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For |
| Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Bullet For My Valentine Hand of Blood |
| Burzum Aske |
| ByoNoiseGenerator Subnormal Dives |
| Camber Beautiful Charade |
| Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever |
| Caribou Our Love |
| Carnifex Hell Chose Me |
| Casey How to Disappear |
| Charli XCX Brat |
| Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve |
| Circle of Contempt Structures for Creation |
| Coalesce Functioning on Impatience |
| Coalesce Give Them Rope |
| Coffin Storm Arcana Rising |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Color Film Living Arrangements |
| Colossal Welcome the Problems |
instrumentally this album is really great top shelf math rock, the free flowing noodley licks are catchy as well as technically impressive. with the use of trumpet as well it will of course invoke comparisons to american football but a lot of this album is much more up tempo with much more poppy sensibilities. jazzy drumming compliments the mathy riffs perfectly and the driving basslines are standout. just imagine if american football rocked out a bit more. it's all great stuff when one of the two singers is doing vocals.
sadly the main vocalist for me brings this down quite a bit. he delivers an incredibly low key vocal performance that borderlines on talking with very little range in a lower register. this really doesn't mix well with instrumentals that are crying out for something a bit more genre typical. luckily the other singer on the album takes over for three songs with a much more complimentary whiny high pitched tone, these also happen to be the best songs on the album. a rare case where an instrumental version of this would be preferable. still the highlights are close to best of the genre high and instrumentally it's pretty impeccable, so give this one a listen if you like midwest emo or math rock.
check out: "work in prague" and "the 1/5 compromise" |
| Combust Belly of The Beast |
| Common Sage Closer To; |
| Corelia Nostalgia |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| Cross My Heart Temporary Contemporary |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder |
| Darkthrone It Beckons Us All |
| Day Of Suffering The Eternal Jihad |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall |
| Deadguy Screamin' With the Deadguy Quintet |
| Death From Above 1979 The Physical World |
| Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych |
| Departures Death Touches Us, From The Moment We Begin To Love |
| Despised Icon Beast |
| Despised Icon Shadow Work |
| Diamonds to Dust Amidst the Hallowed and the Vanquished |
| Disembodied If God Only Knew The Rest Were Dead |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Disfiguring the Goddess |
| Dot Hacker How's Your Process? (Work) |
| Driftless Perfect Blue |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival |
| Effluence Ballistic Bloodspray |
| Effluence Liquified |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows |
| Emperor Reverence |
| Everyone Asked About You Everyone Asked About You |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination |
| Float Face Down Bury Your Beliefs |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| For Today Portraits |
| For Today Breaker |
| Foreign Hands What's Left Unsaid |
| Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave |
| Free Throw Bear Your Mind |
| Frog Mallet Dissection by Amphibian |
| Frontierer The Skull Burned Wearing Hell... |
| Garrison The Bend Before The Break |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Gojira Magma |
| Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist |
| Grouper Paradise Valley |
| Gucci Mane Everybody Looking |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| He Is Legend Heavy Fruit |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
| Holyname Holyname |
| Hope For The Dying Dissimulation |
| Horrendous Anareta |
| I Declare War Amidst the Bloodshed |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased |
| I See Stars 3D |
| I Shall Devour Manipunation |
| I, the Breather Truth and Purpose |
| iamerror Trout Yogurt |
| IDYLLS Prayer for Terrene |
| Imbroco Are You My Lionkiller? |
| Immortal Damned In Black |
| Impending Doom There Will Be Violence |
| Impending Doom Towards the Light |
| Invoke (NC) Enemy of the Sound Perception |
| Ion Dissonance Breathing Is Irrelevant |
| Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone |
| Iwrestledabearonce Ruining It for Everybody |
| J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| Kanye West ye |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kendrick Lamar GNX |
| Kishi Bashi Lighght |
| Knapsack This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
i don't think i'll ever understand the massive hype this band gets but this is a totally solid fun ep. i found this to be even more one note than "you won't go before you're supposed to" and made me appreciate that album a touch more. crushingly heavy but not a whole lot of substance or intricacies to draw you in further. they know how to write a breakdown that hammers hard but they are quite predictable in where they are placed and lack memorability as there are so many of them. the band tries to mix it up with some atmospheric attempts like at the end of "forced to stay" and "permanent" but really just feel like padding and breathers after the beatdown. you throw this on, enjoy it and it mostly leaves your memory outside of a callout or two.
bryan garris's unique high pitched strained screams have really grown on me though and his unorthodox sound contrasts well with the downtuned pummeling guitar tone. a solid little experience that i won't mind revisiting from time to time when i'm feeling a tad peeved!
check out: "where light divides the holler" and "god knows" |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Landscapes Modern Earth |
| Like Moths to Flames The Cycles of Trying to Cope |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Lostprophets Start Something |
| Low Hey What |
| Maggat A Pacific Puzzle |
really solid piece of midwest emo with a bit of a post-hardcore edge from germany. fast and loose instrumentation with a kind of a post-punk jangle to the melodies at points. some juicy basslines on here as well. really solid passionate sing shouty vocals. a bit samey but it's worth a listen.
check out: "your plan is too obsessive" and "valium kid" |
| Marduk Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered |
| Maya Shore Farewell To Introductions |
| Mayhem Deathcrush |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings |
| Megadeth The World Needs A Hero |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Messenger Of The Covenant Wretchedness |
| Metallica Load |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All |
| Modern Baseball Holy Ghost |
| Monuments (UK) We Are the Foundation |
| Moonspell Irreligious |
| Mortal Treason Sunrise Over A Sea Of Blood |
| MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable |
| Naked Whipper Painstreaks |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Nevermore Nevermore |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow |
| Oasis Be Here Now |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Obscura Akróasis |
| Oceano Depths |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| One Step Closer This Place You Know |
| One Step Closer Songs for the Willow |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Orchid/Pig Destroyer Split |
| Order of Nosferat The Absence of Grace |
combining vampires and black metal? now that's good stuff. very enjoyable black metal with heavy use of dungeon synth, keyboards and church organs to add to the melancholic atmosphere. soaring synths really work well with the driving second wave norwegian black metal inspired riffs. the band really nails that icy, fuzzy and thin guitar tone that was a staple of that era and combines it with the synths and keyboards to make something pretty interesting. strong touches of melody as well without going too far. this creates something very upbeat and almost uplifting feeling which is quite unique. it is pretty damn catchy. vocally one pitch but really solid and powerful screams. imagine if second wave black metal never stopped and kept evolving, that's kind of what i see this as.
the only complaint really is that it gets predictable with the track listing being almost entirely a switch off between two minute dungeon synth interludes and then a 6-7 minute song. however, it does flow nicely but loses steam towards the end. definitely worth a listen for black metal fans of all kinds.
check out: "floating with the ravaged ones" and "devoured by lurking shadows" |
| Owls Woods Graves Strix |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Pathology Awaken To The Suffering |
| Penfold Our First Taste of Escape |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Pestkraft Ancestral Sounds |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Happy Songs For Happy Zombies |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway |
| Regurgitated Entrails Sickening Indulgence of Flesh |
| Renounced The Melancholy We Ache |
| Rifles at Recess To Whisper in Tongues |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly |
| Rosasharin If This Letter Leaves Candlelight |
| Rotting Christ Thy Mighty Contract |
| Rotting Christ Khronos |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Sadistik and Maulskull Oblivion Theater |
| Salt The Wound Kill the Crown |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room |
| Short Bus Pile Up Repulsive Display of Human Upholstery |
| Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear |
| Slice the Cake Cleansed |
| Slice the Cake The Man With No Face |
| Slowdive Holding Our Breath |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted |
| Sorcerer (FRA) Devotion |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Stand Still Steps Ascending |
| Starmarket Calendar |
| Stereophonics Language.Sex.Violence.Other? |
| Suffocation Breeding the Spawn |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown |
| Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Terror Lowest Of The Low |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch |
| The Ascendicate To Die As Kings |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Casket Lottery Survival Is For Cowards |
| The Casket Lottery Smoke And Mirrors |
| The Chariot The Fiancee |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Drowned God Moonbearer |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The Partisan Turbine Surgical Assault |
| The Promise Ring 30 Degrees Everywhere |
| The Queen Guillotined Nothing Will Get Us to Heaven |
| The Sawtooth Grin Jabberwocky |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| The Way of Purity Biteback |
| The Word Alive Deceiver |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Tigers Jaw Tigers Jaw |
| Tiny Moving Parts Celebrate |
| Traumatomy Extirpation Paradigms |
| Trivium Shogun |
| TTNG Animals |
| TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life |
| Umbra Vitae Light of Death |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| Valleyheart Heal My Head |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
have you ever wanted botch mixed with alternative metal, mosh parts and beefy production with a dash of nu metal? i didn't really either to be honest but this is pretty fun! the first half is all songs under two and half minutes that flow together into a giant beatdown, it's good but nothing too special or standout save for the occasional clean vocals to break up the monotony. the songwriting just isn't there for me, it's mostly a collection of breakdowns and mathy riffs strung together.
the second half is where the band really shines. the songs are all longer save for an interlude and show the band knows how to write a memorable song. "doomtech" being the clear standout showcasing the bands genre mixing abilities with the melodic clean sung sections combining with the pummeling riffs and dissonance to create something excellent. the ending lyrical repetition of singing to death and screaming how'd it get like this is infectiously catchy. "end eternal" features a great bouncy nu metal styled riff slapped with some chaotic dissonance and has another standout use of lyrical repetition towards the end. the title track "errorzone" is another highlight starting with chuggy mathcore but seamlessly drifts into a melodic section with crooning that sounds very much like deftones worship done well. i definitely prefer this section but this album is just a fun blend of genres with a bit of variet and it will be interesting to watch the band in the future because they can go many different directions.
check out: "doomtech" and "errorzone" |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
| Viraemia Viraemia |
| Volumes Happier? |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing With Blood Comes Cleansing |
| Within the Ruins Invade |
| Within the Ruins Omen |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena |
| Within the Ruins Black Heart |
| Wormrot Voices |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| 3.0 good |
| A Day To Remember Attack Of The Killer B-Sides |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me From You |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Algernon Cadwallader Fun |
| Ameonna Goddess Reign |
| Antichrist Siege Machine Vengeance of Eternal Fire |
| Aphex Twin Syro |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| Attack Attack! This Means War |
| Balance and Composure Separation |
| Balmora/Since My Beloved Six Pacts Etched In Blood |
| Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? |
| Bear Hands Distraction |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were |
| Beneath The Sky In Loving Memory |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol |
| Black Sabbath Cross Purposes |
| Braid The Age of Octeen |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Bullet For My Valentine Scream Aim Fire |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs |
not bad at all. ok the farting horns on the title track are pretty bad and the 10 minute three note piano song never ends. there is a ton of repetition as common with varg's work but it does work at creating an atmosphere especially on "moti ragnarokum" which has a nice soaring build. the cheapness to the synths are a hindrance but also are pretty charming in an odd way. definitely gives runescape vibes especially on "i heimr heljar" which depending on you is a good or bad thing. perfectly good background listening for whatever honestly. this album re-recorded with top notch equipment would probably be really great but as is an interesting experiment given the circumstances it was made under.
check out: "balferd baldrs" and "moti ragnarokum" |
| By A Thread The Last Of The Daydreams |
| Car Bomb Meta |
| Cell (USA-OK) I Will Not Be Found Here After |
| Currents All That Follows |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Dads I’ll Be The Tornado |
| Damon Albarn Everyday Robots |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Despised Icon Consumed By Your Poison |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Deprive |
| Durendal Monument |
| Earth Crisis Destroy The Machines |
| Ecchymosis Ritualistic Intercourse Within Abject Surrealism |
| Effluence Subneural Entropic Dysgenesis |
| Effluence Sarmat |
| Elysia Masochist |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead |
| Febuary February |
| First Day Back Forward |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor No Title as of 13 Feb 2024 28,340 Dead |
| Gridiron Poetry From Pain |
| Harkonen Harkonen |
| like botch meets kiss it goodbye but not as good as that description may lead you to believe. some cool heavy sludgy riffs and moments but very repetitive especially since the vocals drop out a lot. the more straightforward mathcore moments go hard af though especially on the opener and closer. worth a jam though, noisy stuff isn't my jam so mileage may very. |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls |
| Hekseblad Kaer Morhen |
| Hope For The Dying Aletheia |
| Hundredth Faded Splendor |
| I Declare War Malevolence |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved |
| I See Stars The End of the World Party |
| Immortal Blizzard Beasts |
i'm not usually a big criticizer of production, i don't really have an ear for the finer details of it. i just know it when i hear it and this album is really let down by it's production. battles in the north had drums forefront and loud as hell which was an interesting mix but it feels like they over-corrected here, they are buried in the mix with no pop at all. guitars sound muddy with little clarity to the riffs and even sound like they are clipping at times like a bad cassette rip.
it's a shame because the songwriting and riffs are still as solid as ever. the riffs by demonaz are much more death metal inspired this time around and more technical as well. the standout songs are loaded in the second half with the pure riff fury aggression on "battlefields" and career highlight "mountains of might" which slows down the pace with a beautiful synthesized intro leading into excellent melodies and a wonderful solo in the middle. "frostdemonstorm" is a solid closer that sounds like it could've been on battles in the north or even pure holocaust. blizzard beasts is good album that's certainly worth a listen but in need of retouching because the ideas, riffs and performances are all there.
check out: "mountains of might" and "battlefields" |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| Invent Animate Stillworld |
| Jakob Sines |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis |
| Kid Cudi Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’ |
| Killing Of A Sacred Deer Killing Of A Sacred Deer |
| Killing Of A Sacred Deer A Visage of a Mangled Body |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| Kiss It Goodbye She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not |
| Knocked Loose Pop Culture |
going back to a bands first material after being introduced by their new stuff is interesting. definitely cool to see how knocked loose evolved and you can see that right from this ep. simple, heavy as hell beatdown with bouncy grooves that are reminiscent of early the acacia strain especially on "manipulator ii". bryan garris hadn't yet developed his unique bark yet and delivers a more typical solid hardcore scream which although not bad is less preferable to what he is doing now oddly enough.
thick downtuned guitars deliver the groove and breakdowns that hit hard. it's only 12 minutes and about as straight to the point as this style of music can get with mostly chugs and juns filling that runtime. "all my friends" is a great closer that starts a bit more riff focused but ends on a great long extended breakdown. a pretty fun time to put on but nothing special or memorable and definitely shows the potential they had.
check out: "all my friends" and "small victories" |
| Lorna Shore Maleficium |
| Low Roar 0 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light |
| Megadeth Risk |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Metallica 72 Seasons |
| Misericordiam A Thin Line Between Man And Machine |
| Moonspell Wolfheart |
| No Cure I Hope I Die Here |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth |
| Oceano Contagion |
| Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan |
| Owen The Falls of Sioux |
| beaucoup and with you without you are excellent songs, the rest doesn't do too much for me. |
| Painted in Exile The Ordeal |
| Palm Reader Braille |
| Poppy Negative Spaces |
| Prayer for Cleansing The Tragedy |
| Rev3rent Decimate |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Salt The Wound Ares |
| Sharks Keep Moving Sharks Keep Moving |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy |
| TesseracT Perspective |
| The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir Folklore (Demo I) |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Kovenant Nexus Polaris |
| The Sawtooth Grin Pervavor |
| The Summer We Went West Following The Holy Moon Goddess |
really interesting midwest emo album with lots of experimentation, almost free flowing at points. vocals a little rough and inconsistent throughout. doesn't fully come together for me as a full experience but i respect it. if you want something different and out there for the genre listen to this.
check out: "aussie shampoo massacre" and "drive, green sky and blue grass" |
| This Day Forward The Transient Effects of Light on Water |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel |
| Very Secretary Standing in the Shade |
| Vision of Disorder Vision of Disorder |
this is one of those albums that i wish i liked more. all of the ingredients are there for something great but sadly it doesn't fully come together for me. the main issue for me is the crooning deftones-esque alternative metal clean vocals that were in vogue at the time which are present in almost every song. "voila" being the worst offender with cries of murderrrrrrrrrr becoming incredibly grating. tim williams has a really impressive raw, throat shredding scream that perfectly fits with the hardcore parts but the singing just doesn't work. it's not that it is poorly performed, i just don't think it fits with the hard hitting grooves.
i find myself alternate between nodding to the great grooves and then shaking it to the melodic singing. musically it is pretty simple but the mosh sections and breakdowns deliver what they should for an album of this style. plenty of memorable lyrics and lines that will get stuck in your head such as CRUMBLE CRUMBLE LEVEL LEVEL from "ways to destroy one's ambition". there are also sections that repeat the first few words in line with different endings that are incredibly catchy especially on "zone zero". an album that's certainly worth a listen and maybe the mix of genres will come together more for you than it did for me.
check out: "zone zero" and "element" |
| Volatile Ways Perfect Dark |
| Vomit Forth Terrified Of God |
| We Are The Ocean Go Now And Live |
| Within the Ruins Elite |
| Wyatt E. Zamaru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu Part 1 |
| Young Thug JEFFERY |
| Zyklon-B Blood Must Be Shed |
