Average Rating: 3.60 Rating Variance: 1.24 Objectivity Score: 75% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2015 Periphery Juggernaut: Omega4.5Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha3.0Entities Novalis5.02014 Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater4.0ERRA Moments of Clarity3.0Fallujah The Flesh Prevails5.0Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion5.02013 ERRA Augment3.0Protest the Hero Volition5.0Trivium Vengeance Falls1.0Auras Panacea3.0Entities Aether5.02012 Slice the Cake Other Slices3.0Capture Til Death1.0Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads2.5Intervals In Time4.0The Haarp Machine Disclosure3.0Wintersun Time I3.5Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence4.0Elitist Reshape Reason2.5Overall, pretty disappointed in the album as a whole. Not only has Elitist not been able to find a decent vocalist that even remotely pulls off the power and emotion of Jacob Katz's voice but they haven't been able to keep up musically since 'Caves'. The song writing is completely over saturated with ambient yet uninspiring leads that block out alot of the generally more interesting riffing. It just feels like there is a lack of variety in the album as a whole. When i heard Unto the Sun and then Reshape Reason i literally thought my computer bugged out because i thought it was replaying Unto the Sun again, unfortunately my computer didn't crap out and in fact Reshape Reason has a strikingly similar introduction. Either Elitist is still naive to what made Caves so great and are struggling to re create a record of that caliber again or they are truly set out on their own path to do whatever they see fit(which i can respect but am not digging the new style). Elitist was probably going to be my favorite band but now with 2 disappointing releases, ('Earth' being the first disappointment) i'm not sure i can say that anymore ): Monuments (UK) Gnosis3.0The Afterimage Formless2.5The Faceless Autotheism4.0The Contortionist Intrinsic2.0Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand1.5Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal5.0Reflections The Fantasy Effect2.0Terrible production, annoying vocals, guitar wankery everywhere and just bad song writing in general. Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy3.5Meshuggah Koloss1.0One of the worst albums i have heard in my entire life, can't believe i bought this piece of shit.I See Stars Digital Renegade1.0Ovid's Withering The Cloud Gatherer3.0Certainly alot of good ideas, the production is meh and the vocals are probably the weakest part of the band (in my opinion) but overall i have a good feeling about these guys.Slice the Cake The Man With No Face4.0T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca2.5Veil of Maya Eclipse4.5Entities Luminosity5.02011 Ever Forthright Ever Forthright5.0ERRA Impulse4.5Fallujah The Harvest Wombs4.5Animals As Leaders Weightless4.0Elitist Earth2.5Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us2.5Molotov Solution Insurrection3.0Structures Divided By2.0Volumes Via4.0Corelia Nostalgia5.0Substructure Monolith4.0Aegaeon Dissension3.5Trivium In Waves1.5Aristeia Era Of The Omnipotent4.5Beheading of a King Quasar: Preserving Legacy4.0The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual2.5Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues4.0Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless1.0Born of Osiris The Discovery2.5Was so excited for this album and in all honesty now, I feel a little bit let down after hearing it. I have played through the album probably 7 times already and it really just doesn't satisfy. 15 songs sounded mind-blowing and yet the majority of them are just filler, uninspired, chugfests with keyboard sections coming in and out. Either that or its some shitty attempt at making dubstep. Also, where the hell are the epic leads?!? Sure there are a shit load of solos but they are purely wankage and lack any sort of emotion at all (minus the solo in recreate). The album is not terrible at all and was quite enjoyable at times but i feel boo really went for quantity over quality on this record which is its biggest downfall. My favorite tracks: Recreate, Dissimulation, Follow the Signs and Two Worlds of Design. Protest the Hero Scurrilous4.0The Human Abstract Digital Veil3.0Solid album, no where near as good as the first one though.rGood: New vocalist, better writing then Midhaven rBad: Lacks the diversity of Nocturne and is a bit repetitive 2010 ERRA Andromeda3.0After the Burial In Dreams1.5Conducting from the Grave Revenants2.0Completely underwhelming album compared to the first /:Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites3.0TesseracT Concealing Fate4.0The Contortionist Exoplanet4.0Elitist Caves5.0Journal Unlorja4.5Shadow of the Colossus Shadow of the Colossus4.5Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex3.0Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly3.5As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise3.5Haunted Shores Cyclamen/Haunted Shores Split4.0Periphery Periphery4.0Veil of Maya [id]3.5Structures All of the Above4.0Volumes The Concept of Dreaming4.0Counterparts Prophets4.0Martyrdom (USA-CA) Slaying GIants3.52009 Painted in Exile Revitalized4.5Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion4.5Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect4.0Return From Exile Return From Exile5.0Crapped my pants the first time listening to these guys, some of the best melodic sections in metal period(thankfully there are tons of them)! I love every aspect of this band, Guitars are epic, drums are never repetitive and the vocals compliment the music perfectly. Not sure why people aren't digging the vocals, personally i would kill to be able to hit some of the high screams the vocalist does! Amazing stuff! The Contortionist Apparition4.5The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate4.0August Burns Red Constellations4.0Job For A Cowboy Ruination3.5Born of Osiris A Higher Place3.5ERRA ERRA (EP)4.5Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders5.0Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust5.0Fallujah Leper Colony2.0A couple standout songs, unfortunately most of them don't distinguish themselves from one another and the album gets rather dull fast. The new music they have been writing sounds amazing though!2008 The Faceless Planetary Duality5.0At Dawn Undead EP4.0Have loved this band for years, unfortunately "Rapture" wasn't to good other than "Project Blue" which for the most part, stuck with the original At Dawn sound. This band honestly got me into the Metal scene way back when and i haven't left yet, Thanks At Dawn! Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns4.0Trivium Shogun4.5After the Burial Rareform4.5Children of Bodom Blooddrunk1.5Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse5.0Meshuggah obZen3.5Protest the Hero Fortress5.02007 Born of Osiris The New Reign4.0Between the Buried and Me Colors5.0The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal5.0As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us4.0August Burns Red Messengers4.0Job For A Cowboy Genesis2.52006 Trivium The Crusade1.5The Human Abstract Nocturne4.5Veil of Maya All Things Set Aside3.0After the Burial Forging a Future Self3.5The Faceless Akeldama2.52005 Between the Buried and Me Alaska4.5As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security4.0Trivium Ascendancy4.52004 Wintersun Wintersun5.02003 Trivium Ember to Inferno4.0
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