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Objectivity 54%

Last Active 08-21-11 8:24 pm
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Average Rating: 4.30
Rating Variance: 1.02
Objectivity Score: 54%
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5.0 classic
Bring Me The Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For
Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up!
Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...
Death Is Not Glamorous Spring Forward
Fucking amazing album, full of huge hooks and thought-provoking lyrics. Energetic as fuck.
Lower Than Atlantis Far Q
Lower Than Atlantis Bretton
NOFX The War on Errorism
NOFX Ribbed
NOFX Punk in Drublic
NOFX Never Trust a Hippy
NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
Protest the Hero Kezia
Protest the Hero Fortress

4.5 superb
Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season
Design the Skyline Nevaeh
NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
NOFX Coaster
Protest the Hero Sequoia Throne: Remixed
Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth
Protest the Hero Scurrilous

4.0 excellent
Atlantis Atlantis
Atlantis are a relatively new band from Leicester, and have been working hard playing as many shows as they can in their short time as a band. This album is their debut release, and shows a lot of potential in their ambient post-hardcore style.

The record has some really great tracks brought together by some beautiful instrumental interludes. The ethereal quality of the guitar sound and Alex Jones’s stellar clean vocals show an obvious influence from Devil Sold His Soul, but the choruses and screamed sections dismiss any claims of being a rip-off. And those choruses are HUGE, especially on “This Kingdom”. Closer “Until The End” has a chorus that could easily be a great singalong at a live show, and for a young band this is some really solid songwriting. The choruses and songwriting are really strong and I hope to see some expansion on that when they next hit the studio. There's a lot of potential here.

The album is a free release and is available at their bandcamp; http://weareatlantis.bandcamp.com/

Atlantis are playing Havering Rock Festival in London with Hadouken! on the 27th of August.
Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings
NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes

3.5 great
Architects The Here and Now
When a band as balls-out heavy as Hollow Crown-era Architects says their next album "will sound like Paramore", take it with a pinch of salt. This is far removed from a pop-punk album, and is in fact reminiscent of Alexisonfire in the songwriting and riff-to-chorus ratio. Nor is it a bad album (like Paramore comparisons suggest), it's actually a very solid melodic post-hardcore album.

Opener "Day In Day Out" has hooks the size of Saturn's rings and gets the party started early. It's followed by a lacklustre "Learn to Live", which, despite the Radio 1 leanings, has another huge chorus. "Delete:Rewind" and "BTN" are indications that Architects still love to play fast, pissed-off music, but the writing has evolved and improved tenfold. "An Open Letter To Myself" and "Heartburn" are the only real downsides of the album, Architects are not a ballad band and by the looks of this, they never will recapture the brilliance of the song "Hollow Crown". The guest vocals of Mr. Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan on "Stay Young Forever" and poignant closer "Year In Year Out" are brilliant, providing a voice so associated with mathcore it keeps Architects's influences proudly on their sleeve.

Personally I love this album, older Architects fans seem to really dislike it though. It seems to have expanded and alienated their fanbase all at once.

3.0 good
NOFX Pump Up the Valuum

2.5 average
NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo

2.0 poor
Lower Than Atlantis World Record

1.0 awful
Lower Than Atlantis Punk on the Covers
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