| 4.0 excellent |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby |
| A Sight for Sewn Eyes Nonsense |
| Abigail Williams Legend |
| Above and Beyond Tri State |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
A huge improvement on the initial release, the new vocalist is far better than his predecessor. The kick drum no
longer sounds like a tin can and doesn't have that annoying click from the first release of Rareform. The production
is generally 100% sharper, a problem with the first record was the poor production and overall helps make this into
the album I wanted to hear. I would recommend. |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Dropped some of their mental song structures opting for super melodic leads. Phenomenal. |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| A pretty decent attempt, though they have traded their unpredictable songwriting for straight up verse, breakdown, quiet bridge build up to clean singing section metalcore songwriting. It works well and they still maintain their technical music aspect but it is completely formulaic songwriting. Follow the Water is a tune though. |
| Architects Ruin |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant |
| Beloved Failure On |
| Blessed by a Broken Heart Feel The Power |
| this is gonna rawk |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Creepin On Ah Come Up |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Mindblowing realisation of their potential. The keyboards take a far more prominent role for The Discovery than previously. Still present are the super, intricate melodic leads however they are backed by far better fitting rhythms and song structures. The definitive 'Sumeriancore' album. |
| Boysetsfire Tomorrow Come Today |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood |
| Breakdown of Sanity Perception |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| potential realised |
| Bryan Adams So Far So Good |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns |
Clocking in at almost an hour long, The Union Of Crowns is a bit of an ordeal to make it through. However,
there are some moments of inspiration in spite of some criminally bad lead vocals, amid a barrage of
breakdowns. Bury Tomorrow have really stepped it up instrumentally, with melodic death metal lines that
could be cut from As I Lay Dying's The Powerless Rise. Bury Tomorrow manage to offer up an atmosphere
different to their peers, avoiding many of the pitfalls bands such as Miss May I and The Eyes Of A Traitor (later
work) have fallen into - being unable to forge a sound of their own. So much of an improvement they have
undergone, the sound is barely recognisable from the band's debut album Portraits. One thing that has
remained constant is the stellar performance of clean vocalist Jason Cameron. There can't be many better
clean vocalists in modern metalcore and his versatility in moving between high and low, soft and loud is
remarkable. Ignoring the unnecessarily lengthy run time of the album, they have found a nice balance here
between heavy and melodic and this album is a must check out for fans of melodic metalcore.
Recommended Tracks:
Kingdom
Message To A King
Sceptres |
| Bury Tomorrow On Waxed Wings |
| Casey Where I Go When I Am Sleeping |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads |
| I'm absolutely loving this. Super technical yet avoids falling into complete wankery. Beautifully melodic yet packing a dense crunch with the rhythms. |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| Cry of the Afflicted The Unveiling |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Def Leppard Pyromania |
| Def Leppard Vault: Greatest Hits 1980 - 1995 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed |
| Dire Straits Sultans of Swing: The Very Best Of |
| Dire Straits Money for Nothing |
| Dire Straits Brothers in Arms |
| Disclosure Settle |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| ERRA Impulse |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Exit Ten This World They'll Drown |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| Fightstar Grand Unification |
| Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Funeral for a Friend Between Order And Model EP |
| Funeral for a Friend Four Ways to Scream Your Name |
| Hail the Sun Wake |
| Hands Like Houses Unimagine |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls |
| As far as personal favourites go, this is up there. As far as Jimmy Ryan and Brennan Chaulk go, I've never heard a better pair doing dual vocals. |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Invent Animate Everchanger |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Journey Greatest Hits |
| Justin Bieber Purpose |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Justin Timberlake Justified |
| Kelela Hallucinogen |
| Kelela Take Me Apart |
| Kelela Raven |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains |
| They should really have done a better job of the cover. |
| Lostprophets Start Something |
| Luniz Operation Stackola |
| Mac Miller GO:OD AM |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Mol Diorama |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood |
| Northlane Discoveries |
| Novelists Demos (2013–2014) |
| NSYNC NSYNC |
| NSYNC Celebrity |
| Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place |
| Of Virtue Heartsounds |
| Of Virtue Salvation |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Richard Marx Repeat Offender |
| Rogue Aeon |
| Rogue Anomaly |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Savage Garden Savage Garden |
| Seal Seal |
| Seal Seal II |
| Seasons In Wreckage Perspectives |
| Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound |
| Silent Planet When the End Began |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 |
| Solace (CAN) Call & Response |
| This is going to blow my socks off. |
| Substructure Monolith |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age |
| Tears for Fears Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits '82-'92) |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate |
| TesseracT Altered State |
| The Afterimage Lumière |
| The Agony Scene Tormentor |
| Visceral and unrelenting. The Agony Scene have outdone The Darkest Red |
| The Amity Affliction Somewhere Beyond the Blue |
Something like this has been long overdue
after a catalogue of utter garbage. A
surprising hit that lends itself to their
early material. |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| A long overdue return to form for The Black Dahlia Murder. Ryan Knight's ethereal melodic lines nicely balance out the whirlwind of aggression that pads out the rhythm section. And of course Strnad's vocals are very much the benchmark for all to reach. |
| The Bled Pass the Flask |
| The Bled Found in the Flood |
| The Cars Heartbeat City |
| The Color Morale My Devil In Your Eyes |
| More on the sugary side for metalcore but nonetheless very enjoyable. |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Eyes of a Traitor A Clear Perception |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
Excellent album. Have taken their melody to a new level. The musicianship has improved tenfold. A few of the
breakdowns are a bit one paced and stale but besides this there isn't much wrong with this. Can't beat the pure
aggression of this band. Hopefully I'll find a better copy soon. |
| The Gorgeous Great Lakes |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| TLC CrazySexyCool |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Van Halen The Best of Both Worlds |
| Van Halen 5150 |
| Volumes Via (Remastered) |
| Will Haven Carpe Diem |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human |
| 3.5 great |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| A Night in Texas The God Delusion |
| After the Burial Wolves Within |
| a slightly disappointing return. Leads and solos take on a more prominent role in 'Wolves Within' but is glued together by rhythm sections I feel I've heard from them before. Having spent a couple of years writing 'Wolves Within', all After the Burial have succeeded in is coming up with an album that massages the ego of it's predecessor. In trying to move back towards their more extreme 'Rareform' sound they have decided to completely scrap most of the good that came out of 'In Dreams'. 'Disconnect' and 'Nine Summers' are both stellar tracks, two of After the Burial's best ever tracks infact but they are immersed within a catalogue of disjointed, incomplete ideas. I can't help but feel I've heard this all before but done consistently better. |
| ALAZKA Values & Virtues |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends |
| The Price Of Existence > This Is Where It Ends > Awaken The Dreamers. Hermida rules. |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| AngelMaker Dissentient |
| AngelMaker Sanctum |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Aristeia Era Of The Omnipotent |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Listen to the Color |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| Probably on par with Thrill Seeker, August Burns Red serve up an album in which the second half far rsurpasses the first half. Having taken a slightly more experimental route with Leveler you find more noodley rleads from JB Brubaker and a number of interesting guitar parts. Jake's vocals are great and Greiner excels ras always behind the kit. Surprisingly, junz are more prominent than in Constellations and overall I feel they rkinda ran a little short on ideas. Mixing is also a bit blah. Recommended tracks - from Pangea through to rLeveler. Best song - 40 Nights |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Aviana Polarize |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom |
| Bleed from Within Empire |
Surprisingly technical in some areas. Some of melodies remind me of All Shall Perish's "The Price of
Existence". Though littered with a few too many breakdowns and an overemphasis on palm muted rhythms this is a
punishing but truly enjoyable display of progression from their previous efforts. |
| Bleed from Within Uprising |
| Riff work so good it could be Unearth's "the Oncoming Storm". Bleed From Within's axe wielders have certainly stepped it up for Uprising as they rip roar their way through 13 tracks of melodic metalcore heaven. Having succeeded in outdoing each of their predecessing albums, Bleed From Within make an unprecedented leap from rising stars to superstars of metalcore. 'Devotion' and 'Our Divide' provide particular mind blowing highlights. |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bruno Mars 24K Magic |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Bury Tomorrow Portraits |
| Bury Tomorrow does little to stand out from the British metalcore era that is currently in at the moment. They do however possess a clean vocalist with an undoubtedly rich amount of talent and his serene vocal lines rescue this from being another card in the pack. Musically not very challenging they do however use their main asset to great effect. |
| Casey Great Grief / Atone |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion |
| Crunchy but technical, Circle of Contempt mix their rather formulaic Meshuggah influenced deathcore with some beautiful melodeath leads which light up this album. Overly layered vocals don't take the gloss off a well produced addition to the list of scandanavian death metal successes. |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest |
| Currents The Way It Ends |
| Currents The Death We Seek |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Darko (US) Oni |
| Destroy the Runner I, Lucifer |
| Destroy the Runner Saints |
| Disclosure Caracal |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late |
| Eighteen Visions XVIII |
| Elitist Caves |
| Elitist Earth |
| Don't understand the hate for this, sure the instrumentals were completely pointless but I think this actually pretty good after listening to it a few times. Fracture is great. |
| Elitist Reshape Reason |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Empires Fade The Edge Of Existence |
I can't help but feel this would have been a late noughties metalcore staple. With a sound that
more than lends itself to the likes of Misery Signals (a nice guest vocal by Karl Schubach aids in
this) and For the Fallen Dreams, it is unlikely Empires Fade are going find themselves catapulted
to superstardom pedalling this style of ethereal but ultimately derivative metalcore, simply
because the audience for this is not what it once was.
The assortment of elegant lead sections and a nice chunky rhythm will provide anyone with a
partiality to metalcore plenty of enjoyment. The lead guitar lines prove to be the major highlight
throughout the near 40 minute run time.
The lyrical content proves to be hit and miss. Having taken shots at religion, Empires Fade come
across as small minds thinking big in songs such as 'Worthless' and 'Eyes Wide Shit', providing
neither the insight nor the articulation to adequately tackle the issue. They seem more
comfortable covering more traditional lyrical themes such as betrayal and loss.
Vocally, the Edge of Existence is extremely polished. This again works to both it's advantage and
it's disadvantage. On one hand, the lead vocals are deep, aggressive and feature highly in the
mix, this provides them with added presence. The clean vocals however bother me at points as they
seem overly doctored and unnatural.
Overall, the Edge of Existence is not without flaws but is a refreshing revival for melodic
metalcore.
Recommended: Worlds Apart, Hidden Truths, the Edge of Existence |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Fear Before Fear Before |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fifth Harmony 7/27 |
| Fightstar Be Human |
| Finch What It Is to Burn |
| Fit for a King Creation | Destruction |
| The epitome of refined genericore. Strong vocals and some impressive lead guitar bits haul Creation|Destruction above the mediocrity the formulaic songwriting warrants. Fit For a King end up being greater than the sum of their parts here. |
| Fit for a King Descendants (Redux) |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies |
| For the Fallen Dreams Relentless |
| Freddie Gibbs Shadow of a Doubt |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count |
| fromjoy fromjoy |
| Funeral for a Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your Name |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants |
| Haste the Day Coward |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) |
| Hester Prynne The Goswell Divorce |
| Hondo Maclean Unspoken Dialect |
| Huey Lewis and the News Fore! |
| I Am Noah The Verdict |
| If I Were You Inner Signals |
| If I Were You Radiant Dark |
| Iggy Azalea The New Classic |
| In Hearts Wake Earthwalker |
| InMe White Butterfly |
| Intervals The Space Between |
| Despite the fact it is lacking in vocals, the musicianship is strong enough to carry this. For fans of ambidjent. |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was |
| Jamie's Elsewhere Rebel - Revive |
| Jamie's Elsewhere They Said a Storm Was Coming |
| JLS JLS |
| Infectiously catchy chorus' and great production make JLS the next upcoming Boys II Men pretenders. Great album. |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom |
| Joe Satriani Flying In A Blue Dream |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| Kelela Cut 4 Me |
| Kingdom of Giants Passenger |
A pleasant surprise given the standard of the
initial single releases. |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies |
| Like Moths to Flames Pure Like Porcelain |
| Like Moths to Flames No Eternity in Gold |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger |
Memphis May Fire's detractors will find nothing here to throw them off the warpath. Pretty standard fare for
the former Southern Post Hardcore outfit. Their sound has become much more befitting of their label, Rise
Records as time has passed. Heavy use of synthesiser, choppy palm muted sections and sugary clean vocals
dominate throughout. Despite the album fading badly in the second half there are a number of catchy tunes
that you just cant help but bob your head along too. "Vices" and "Prove Me Right" carrying some of the most
infectious hooks you are to hear from 2012. In a sea of bands doing this exact thing, Memphis May Fire are
one of the better examples of it being done well. |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Motley Crue Red, White, & Crue |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| Neaera Armamentarium |
| Novelists Noir |
| Oceana Birth.Eater |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity |
| OFWGKTA Radical |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Epic |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Phinehas Dark Flag |
| Polaris Fatalism |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Puff Daddy Forever |
| Rogue Phantom |
| Roxette Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus! |
| Safemode Colorblind |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Sean Hall Terrestrial |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy |
| Shokran Sixth Sense |
| Silent Planet Iridescent |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Skid Row Skid Row |
| Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear |
| Story of the Year In The Wake Of Determination |
| Survivor Eye of the Tiger |
| Take That Everything Changes |
| Texas in July Bloodwork |
| Texas in July Without Reason |
| The Agony Scene The Darkest Red |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code |
| The Amity Affliction Youngbloods |
| The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts |
| The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts |
| The Arusha Accord Juracan |
| The Browning Geist |
| The Cars Greatest Hits |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII |
| The Ghost Inside Fury and the Fallen Ones |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Healing Elevate |
| The Korea Saturnus |
| The Lightning Seeds Jollification |
| The Outfield Play Deep |
| The Plot In You Happiness in Self Destruction |
| The Royal Dreamcatchers |
| The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy, |
| The Word Alive Life Cycles |
The musical equivalent of McDonalds. You know what goes in is a bit rubbish but what comes out just tastes
so good. The Word Alive dumbs themself down for sophomore effort "Life Cycles" instead concentrating on
ticking boxes by adding a heavier emphasis on the syrupy keys they are famed for and raining down the
palm mutes and hammer ons. The breakneck intensity of "The Hounds Of Anubis" and the like seems to be in
the past but somehow I don't feel disappointed. Clean vocalist Tyler Smith betters his last
performance tenfold and his vocal melodies are much better fitted to the style The Word Alive adopt here.
Thankfully they also tone down on the stacked screamed vocals of the two guitarists. Sure, the Arizonans sell
themselves a bit short and they are far more capable than their showing here but in the end, from a purely
shallow perspective, "Life Cycles" just works. |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead The Scars of Ages |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War |
| To The Grave Epilogue |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Unearth The March |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| Volumes No Sleep |
| Volumes Via |
| Volumes Happier? |
| Wage War Deadweight |
| Will Haven El Diablo |
| Woe, Is Me Number[s] |
| A mixed bag, some nice flowy riffs and interesting arpeggios scattered around. Particularly the better tracks such as 'Delinquent' and 'Hell of High Water'. Interesting uses of samples and some excellent work from ex Of Machines drummer Austin Thornton.rHowever for every excellent riff there are 5 monotonous, cookie cutter breakdowns to go with it. The annoying over-reliance on the use of breakdowns makes listening to the entire album at once a near impossible task. Track by track however there is some joy to be had. |
| World of Pleasure World Of Pleasure and Friends |
| You Me At Six Hold Me Down |
| Your Memorial Redirect |
| Really great atmospherics. Redirect has taken me completely by surprise. Fans of Misery Signals might find some enjoyment in this. Trial & Triumph is a quite stupendous track. |
| 3.0 good |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A fun listen but completely generic just as they always have been. All the beatdowns sound the same, most of the chorus' do. |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| A Hero a Fake Let Oceans Lie |
| Adestria Chapters |
| Aegaeon Being |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| After the Burial This Life Is All We Have |
| ALAZKA Phoenix |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| APOSTATE Against All Odds |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless |
| Weak experimentation with eighties style anthemic chorus' and more sparsely spread cookie cutter dance beats hint that the band at least wants to try and distance themselves from the mincer reputation they got themselves from debut album "Stand Up and Scream". |
| Atreyu The Curse |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Beneath The Sky In Loving Memory |
about as predictable as Palaceofwisdom's As I Lay Dying review rating. Everything that has gotten Beneath the Sky
such a bad reputation is here, there is however some shallow enjoyment to be had from what are superb lead vocals
as always and a surprisingly excellent title track. |
| Betraying the Martyrs Breathe In Life |
| Born of Osiris Angel or Alien |
| Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign |
Glossier and a bit watered down in areas. Some of the remade songs sound better (The New Reign,
Abstract
Art, Empires Erased) but many sound much less
memorable than before (Open Arms of Damnation, Rosecrance, Brace Legs). |
| Breakdown of Sanity Coexistence |
| This sounds like Breakdown of Sanity |
| Breakdowns At Tiffany's Constants |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
| Burden of a Day OneOneThousand |
| I thought this was going to be better than what it actually was. The songs put on their myspace were top notch but unfortunately were the only real highlights of the album. Too samey. Also the singer is different to the recording of the title track on their myspace. |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal |
| Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy |
| Something I am surprised about saying but Caliban has made a record which finally shows off something of substance, the generic metalcore and clean vocals are still present but this is a monumental improvement from their last two releases. 24 Years is a stellar track and along with this and the Degeneration Of Humanity displays manic aggression paired with relatively impressive instrumentation. A fun listen, not a brilliant one. A guilty pleasure somewhat. |
| Carcer City Infinite / Unknown |
| Casey How to Disappear |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Climates What Means The Most |
| Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust |
This is a barrage of technical deathcore, unrelenting but abit too long and repetitive from me. It avoids being generic and predictable for the most part utilising Gothenburg riffing to its maximum potential playing some unbelievable melodies whilst pumelling the listener by what is a pretty tight performance from the drummer.
Whilst I am not a massive fan of tech metal i find this intriguing to listen to but find myself annoyed at some passages which are littered and lacking structure. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
| Def Leppard High 'N' Dry |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light |
| Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival |
| Eighteen Visions Vanity |
| Eighteen Visions Inferno |
| Emanuel Soundtrack to a Headrush |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Empires Fade Reflection |
| Entities Aether |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity |
| ERRA Drift |
| JT Cavey was undoubtedly a great addition to Erra but to then underuse him to the extent they do in "Drift" is criminal. Musically more melodic than ever and there are some nice moments but Jesse's cleans have become increasingly grating with every release. I expected much more. |
| Every Bridge Burned Aun Aprendo |
| Feed Her to the Sharks The Beauty of Falling |
| Fightstar They Liked You Better When You Were Dead |
| Fit for a King Descendants |
| Fit for a King Deathgrip |
| Fit for a King Slave to Nothing |
| Fit for a King The Path |
| For the Fallen Dreams Back Burner |
| A disappointing return for a band with undoubted talent. Having established a relatively unique sound in rtheir previous outings For The Fallen Dreams have lost two members, one of which was the principle rsongwriter. This is altogether obvious in Back Burner. While there is no obvious step down in the technicality rof musicianship the songs don't seem to flow as nicely as before, often seeming a little disjointed. While rlead vocalist Dylan Richter's screams have improved tenfold the prevalence of clean vocals has increased rtenfold. The clean vocals leave much to be desired. Fist Fight is the only real outstanding track on Back rBurner. |
| For the Fallen Dreams Heavy Hearts |
| A band seemingly in terminal decline was taken a shot of the defibrillator and has jerked back into life. The return of Chad Ruhlig has seemingly taken the band back to their slightly rosier days of Changes and Relentless. |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful |
| From First to Last Throne to the Wolves |
| Greeley Estates Go West Young Man, Let The Evil Go East |
| Haste the Day Dreamer |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King |
| He Is Legend It Hates You |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved |
| I, the Breather Truth and Purpose |
| In Fear and Faith In Fear and Faith |
| In Hearts Wake Divination |
| Invent Animate Heavener |
| Jhene Aiko Souled Out |
| Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer |
| Kid Ink My Own Lane |
| Kingdom of Giants Ground Culture |
| Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare |
| Lower Definition The Infinite Et Cetera |
| Madina Lake From Them, Through Us, To You |
| Many Things Untold Atlantic |
| Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls |
| New Kids on the Block Hangin' Tough |
| Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint |
| Novelists Souvenirs |
| Novelists C'est La Vie |
| Oceana The Tide |
| Oceano Revelation |
| Our Last Night We Will All Evolve |
| Palisades I'm Not Dying Today |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Polar Nova |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Rain City Drive Routine Breathing |
| Rain City Drive Through Art We Are All Equals |
| Saosin Along the Shadow |
| SECRETS Fragile Figures |
| Shadow Of Intent Primordial |
| Shokran Supreme Truth |
| Still Remains The Serpent |
| Structures Life Through a Window |
| Texas in July Salt Of The Earth |
| Obvious spin off of Messengers. Shamelessly plagiarised but fun to listen to as an alternative. The man behind the kit is an absolute machine. |
| The Air I Breathe Great Faith In Fools |
| This album would be in line for a far more favourable rating if it didn't have half as many breakdowns as it does. Some really tight musicianship throughout. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Bled Silent Treatment |
| The Color Morale We All Have Demons |
| The Color Morale Know Hope |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Devil Wears Prada Space |
| The Eyes of a Traitor The Disease |
A relative return to form after the disappointing "Breathless". They haven't headed back in the direction of "a
Clear Perception" unfortunately but seem to have carved out a dark, atmospheric sound with the addition of
background synthesisers. They ramp up the technicality of the musicianship again compared to last time but
the EP has been mixed in such a way that it comes across quite muddy. |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside |
| The Hunt For Ida Wave To Have and To Hold, To Choke Until Cold |
| The Northern Solstice |
| The Royal Deathwatch |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness |
| The Wise Man's Fear Castle in the Clouds |
| Thessa The Other Side MMXV |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Skepsis |
| A grower of an album. 10 punishing tracks which are packed full of aggression and violence. Blast beating, blunt downtuned guitars and a real sense of hopelessness is evoked throughout the course of the album. New vocals are adequate and it is nice to hear a bit of range when compared to the last vocalist. Almost a straight up mix of Bloodlust and Malice. |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Volumes Different Animals |
| Whitesnake Best of Whitesnake |
| Wolves at the Gate Eulogies |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| 2.0 poor |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| Adept Sleepless |
| Adestria Gilded Hearts |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals |
| I never thought I'd find myself saying an Alexisonfire album is sub par. But this is in every way. |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| As Blood Runs Black Instinct |
| this is taking more heat than is deserved. Catchy riffage with tonnes of stacked vocals.r3 weeks later - Became boring really fast. |
| Asking Alexandria The Black |
| Azriel A Will Of Fire |
| Before I Turn The Devil Exists |
| Before Their Eyes Untouchable |
A mixed bag really, they seem to be split on influences and it doesn't work. The poppier songs work okay overall but the generic metalcore nonsense is pathetic. The breakdown at the end of
'Hell or High Water' earns this an extra .5. |
| Beneath The Sky The Day the Music Died |
| Betraying the Martyrs Phantom |
| Betraying the Martyrs The Resilient |
| Blessthefall Awakening |
| a few genuinely good riffs are outweighed by annoying cleans and this whole thing being pretty rubbish and generic. |
| Blessthefall To Those Left Behind |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Breakdown of Sanity Mirrors |
| Bury Tomorrow Earthbound |
| Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve |
| Don't know why I bothered getting hold of this. Anyway, a huge improvement on their previous material which rwas completely unlistenable. Jason Richardson has added some spritely elements to the guitar work in Evolve. rHe picks off from where he left off in the Discovery. Unfortunately for him though, his fellow bandmates are rlittle more than competent musicians and are hell bent on producing records so generic and watered down rthey won't find their way out of 15 year old scenesters' CD collections. Also, the vocalist should be put down. |
| Confession The Long Way Home |
| Confide Recover |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| Dr. Acula Slander |
| terrible vocals but much improved musicianship. Their first release that I found any entertainment out of, what very little entertainment it was. |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue |
| Emarosa Emarosa |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows |
| Hacktivist Hacktivist |
| Hand of Mercy Resolve |
| In Hearts Wake Ark |
| It Prevails Capture & Embrace |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| LGND Valediction |
| LGND The Pale Horse |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral |
| Miss May I Monument |
| Miss May I are as infuriating as ever in sophomore "Monument". The guitarists have seemingly advanced in their rabilities to play but they are still incapable of filling songs with anything but crap breakdowns, annoying clean rsections and cookie cutter melo death riffs. |
| Miss May I At Heart |
| The overall consensus is that At Heart is an improvement instrumentally, the riffs are quite a bit better than their previous efforts but the clean vocals totally kill it. Horrible. |
| Motionless in White Creatures |
| My Ticket Home To Create a Cure |
| MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable |
| Obey the Brave Young Blood |
| Oceana Clean Head |
| Oceano Depths |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Lost Isles |
| Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men |
| Palisades Outcasts |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Skip the Foreplay Nightlife |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| Texas in July One Reality |
| the only good thing about this band before was that their drummer was phenomenal. They must have told him to calm down. Thus making this one of the most tedious and boring listens I have had in a long time. |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood |
| I've never been so bored in my life. Downgrading to one guitarist was a big mistake. |
| The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak |
| The Color Morale Hold On Pain Ends |
| The Crimson Armada Conviction |
| What a horrible waste of talent. Traded out being a decent by the numbers melo-deathcore band for a rdreadful by the numbers metalcore band. As was aptly put above, the mixture of Attack Attack! esque keys rand Emmure esque yells make for a dog's dinner of an album overall. Having said that "You've Changed" rand "Worthy" are probably worth checking out. |
| The Word Alive Real. |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Malice |
| Vatican Ultra |
| Viatrophy Chronicles |
| Douchebags, generic deathcore - they kind of work in tandem these days. Not really much to come back for. |
| Winds of Plague The Great Stone War |
| You Me At Six Sinners Never Sleep |
| A very disappointing return after their last record. An abundance of weak, slow songs and goofy guest parts ruin any chance of this being decent. |
