Average Rating: 2.33 Rating Variance: 2.38 Objectivity Score: 56% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name4.5 superbThe Agonist Prisoners1.5 very poorThe Agonist Eye of Providence1.0 awfulThe Agonist FiveI've been with this band for close to a decade. Prisoners and Lullabies for the Dormant Mind remain their standout releases, with Eye of Providence paling in comparison. Still, that album was listenable. Five? Not so much. The vocals are poorly produced and it feels as though Vicky has regressed. Her clean vocals, while still her main strength, baffle me in terms of the melodies and the ranges that she chooses to use on some of these songs. Her YouTube covers are great (well, except for the travesty of Thank You Pain), and are in fact, far more powerful than any of the vocals she lays out on either of the albums she's featured on. The lyrics are a shadow of what they used to be, and the vocal melodies are either so generic or so out of place that you feel as though the song was slapped together at the last minute. It's understandable, or at least predictable because their former vocalist, Alissa White-Gluz wrote all of their old lyrics and all of their old vocal melodies. This does not however, excuse the ridiculously uninspired feel of the instruments on this album. Eye of Providence at the very least retained some of the great instrumentation, but apparently the guys decided to fuck everything and tone it down on Five. All-in-all, this is one of the most disappointing and mediocre albums I've heard from an established band. Given all the pomp and circumstance they brought out to hype it up, they should be ashamed of this product.
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