| 4.0 excellent |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Overall recording quality has improved. Song structures have more variety. Just wished not every song would start so powerfully. |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| At The Throne of Judgment The Arcanum Order |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All |
| Beneath The Sky More Than You Can Handle |
| Beneath The Sky What Demons Do To Saints |
| In my sole opinion, Beneath The Sky produces music of a similar style to that of I Killed The Prom Queen's. While tracks are filled with high, sharp screams, vocal Joey Nelson goes to deep roars at times. There is clear singing during the choruses, and you can expect a lot of catchy breakdowns and rhythmic alterations (sorry, not sure how to professionally term that). This album is no doubt heavy and a definite headbanger. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast |
| Caliban The Awakening |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man |
| Emarosa This Is Your Way Out |
| Responding to foreverlostandfaded, I would probably compare this to The Devil Wears Prada. Not because they are both from Rise Records, but it's the way their songs are mixtures of a lot of things. I dunno how exactly to put it, but the instrumentals, varied rhythms, abnormal fill-ins, a lack of breakdowns, clear singing, and some of the heavy riffs all combined together produce a special sound that metalcore can no longer define. Experimental? Go figure. What I can guarantee is impressiveness and awe. |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| From A Second Story Window Conversations |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf To Our Prayers |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir |
| Knives Exchanging Hands Hiatus |
| Life in Your Way Waking Giants |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Stick to Your Guns For What It's Worth |
| Sum 41 Chuck |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero |
| The Autumn Offering Revelations of the Unsung |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| Many people believe that this stuff is "generic." I don't know where those conclusions came from, but to me, it's fresh, it's original, it's better than a lot of other metalcore I've heard out there. There are literally no breakdowns in TDWP songs, and their song structures are varied. Rarely does the listener hear the same thing twice. The vocalist has a wide range of screams and roars, and if you like singing in your metalcore, it's guaranteed as well. For people who haven't made an attempt at the album, I say ignore the critics and give it a shot. ;) |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The End (CAN) Elementary |
| This Runs Through Until Forever Finds Me |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire |
| 3.5 great |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Blood Has Been Shed Spirals |
| Caliban The Opposite From Within |
| Caliban The Undying Darkness |
| Catherine Rumor Has It |
| Destroy the Runner Saints |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker |
| Weak screaming vocals, decent clean vocals, catchy guitar melodies, and occasional breakdowns. This pretty much sums up the whole album. I would say this is on the boundaries of metalcore and post-hardcore. It's fresh to listen to in the first few spins, but the excitement does die down after a while. |
| For the Fallen Dreams Changes |
| From A Second Story Window Delenda |
| Interesting music. The vocalist has a typical death scream and then occasionally produces the pig squeal. Somewhat progressive, the band plays a variety of riffs throughout the album, and doesn't just stick to the usual death metal style. Discordance is a major aspect to the album as well. Overall, the album is satisfactory. |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
| The Academy Is... Santi |
| Winter Solstice The Fall of Rome |
| If you like breakdowns and a lot of them at once, prefer all-out screaming without clear-singing or any variation at all, this is the album for you. There's nothing spectacular about the album, yet it's not BAD. Two tracks worth listening to are Following Caligula and Calibrate The Virus. |
