| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us | 4.5 |
Tragedy Will Find Us is a fantastic representation of the evolution of Counterparts sound.
Instrumentally specific parts are more fleshed out while the songs themselves are much more
concise, and don't meander (which I thought some of their earlier material was guilty of.) The
overall tone is much darker and more desperate than previous material so when the melodies are
more prevalent they create a perfect "silver lining in the clouds" feeling that generally
accompanies this type of sound. Collapse, Burn, and Tragedy and are all good showcases of this.
Breakdowns still remain a staple of Counterparts sound, and on TWFU they bring The. Fucking.
Mosh. Whether dropped out of nowhere like in the pit rousing opener "Stillborn", the steadily
built upon until it collapses under it's own overbearing weight in "Stranger", or "Choke's"
plain ridiculous yet fitting attempt to out do the much discussed breakdown in Compass. They
are always tastefully placed and never overdone, they appear only when needed and are always
accompanied by a sick mosh call that is always equal parts distressful and poignant.
I could be wrong but the heaviness seems to be a lot more influenced by early Metalcore than
previous albums. The use of short bursts of spoken word passages that instantly bring to mind
Of Malice era Misery Signals/7 Angels 7 Plagues/Taken etc. also suggest this.
I admit a love of gut wrenchingly honest lyricism and being able to identify with said lyrics
definitely helps in appreciating this album. When I first heard "I AM A STRANGER WHEN I STARE
INTO THE EYES OF THOSE I LOVE LOOK AWAY IN DISGUST PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE SIGHT OF MY
DECEPTION " my jaw dropped, and my vision turned blurry; to hear thoughts that ruminate often,
but are never openly spoken about, addressed so vividly and desperately it... It really caused
me to reflect hard on such matters and to be thankful that there is someone who truly shares
and understands my fucked up thought process.
Equally impactful, but for an entirely different reason, the closing of following track
Tragedy; the stern affirmation of I AM NOT A MORTAL I AM A METAPHOR FOR MOVING FORWARD instills
the listener with a sense of camaraderie that can only be found in a shared nature of despair
as well as a renewed sense of purpose which is much needed after the absolutely draining
Stranger.
I love that Brendan has the courage to address the deepest of insecurities and the darkest of
thoughts as well in such a way that is incredibly relatable and personal, but never alienates
the listener.
In conclusion the instrumentation and lyricism blend together to create a beautifully cathartic
juxtaposition that is the perfect soundtrack for encountering and ultimately dealing with the
tragedies that affect our lives.
Strong Melodic Hardcore/Metalcore AOTY material. |
| Taken Between Two Unseens | 5.0 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 4.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Heavy Hearts | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| Failure In Vanity The Contender | 3.5 |
| Embrace The End Counting Hallways to the Left | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Old Gray An Autobiography | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.5 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light | 4.0 |
| Still Remains Ceasing to Breathe | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 4.0 |
| Defeater Letters Home | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.0 |
| Dizzy Wright Smokeout Conversations | 3.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 4.0 |
| Johnny Truant In the Library of Horrific Events | 4.0 |
| Solace (CAN) Call & Response | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Riala | 4.5 |
| Beau Navire Lumens | 4.0 |
| Dionaea Still | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 2.5 |
| Eyedea and Abilities By the Throat | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.5 |
| For Want Of For Want Of | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape After The Lights | 4.0 |
| The Sawtooth Grin Pervavor | 3.5 |
| So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 2.5 |
| Hopsin Raw | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.0 |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 4.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 5.0 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.5 |
| Elysia Masochist | 2.5 |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted | 4.0 |
| Bury Your Dead Mosh n' Roll | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Back Burner | 2.0 |
| White Arms of Athena Astrodrama | 4.0 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.0 |
| Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Adobe Homes/Beau Navire 7 Inch | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 4.5 |
| Beau Navire Hours | 4.0 |
| Snowing Summer Tour Tape | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Touche Amore | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.0 |
| Iselia Adaptations | 3.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 5.0 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 4.5 |
| Still Remains The Serpent | 2.5 |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| Beau Navire Life Moves | 3.5 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 5.0 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 4.0 |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 | 3.5 |
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| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.5 |
| Sailboats Demo | 4.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape/We Were Skeletons Split | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya All Things Set Aside | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.0 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.5 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Here at the End of All Things | 3.5 |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead | 2.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape/Pianos Become The Teeth Split | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Space Jam | 5.0 |
| Pokemon Pokemon 2.B.A. Master | 5.0 |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 5.0 |
| The perfect soundtrack to any emotional crisis ever. |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason | 3.5 |
| Ion Dissonance Cursed | 3.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape Amia Venera Landscape | 4.0 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom | 3.0 |
| Knights Of The Abyss 2005 Demo | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Mushroomhead Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children | 2.5 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 3.0 |
| Eternal Lord Blessed Be This Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino One Nation Underground | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.0 |
| Bleed from Within Humanity | 3.0 |
| Bury Your Dead Beauty and the Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Catherine Rumor Has It | 2.5 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events | 4.0 |
| Seneca Seneca | 3.5 |
| Winter Solstice The Fall of Rome | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Within the Ruins Invade | 3.5 |
| Within the Ruins Creature | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 5.0 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.5 |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray | 3.0 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B | 4.5 |
| Tech N9ne The Lost Scripts of K.O.D. | 4.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left | 4.0 |
| Prayer for Cleansing Rain In Endless Fall | 4.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 2.5 |
| Structures All of the Above | 3.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Shapeshifter | 3.5 |
| MyChildren MyBride Lost Boy | 2.0 |
While I enjoyed a couple of songs from this bands debut,
there is not a single memorable moment on this cd.
It is the definition of mediocrity.
In fact the one thing I really liked about the first cd (the somewhat creative drumming) is
pretty much gone.The breakdowns are back and are as boring and formulaic as they come.
This band is doing nothing, but mimicking the more popular second generation Metalcore
bands. |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 2.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 4.0 |
If you were around in the 90s and listened to the radio; you're a damn liar if you say you
didn't get the infectious choruses of Real World,3 A.M, or Push stuck in your head.
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| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 5.0 |
| Eyedea and Abilities First Born | 4.0 |
| Ligeia Your Ghost Is A Gift | 3.5 |
| Zero And Falling A Disease Of Meaning | 3.5 |
| Dead Kings Dead Kings | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through | 2.5 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
| Deadwater Drowning Deadwater Drowning EP | 4.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 3.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 2.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square | 4.0 |
| The Word Alive The Word Alive | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue | 2.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 3.0 |
| Flaw Through the Eyes | 3.5 |
| Dr. Acula The Social Event of the Century | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.0 |
| On this album you will hear Heavy Metal, a musical genre from the future.Be dazzled by distortion, be bombarded by bass beats, and jitterbug to djent! I'm sure you will enjoy such finger popping tunes such Light,Insomnia, and my personal favorite, Ragtime Dandies! |
| Seneca Reflections | 3.0 |
| The Empire Shall Fall Awaken | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.0 |
| Emmure The Complete Guide To Needlework | 2.5 |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows | 3.0 |
| Emmure Felony | 1.5 |
| The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 3.0 |
| The Showdown A Chorus of Obliteration | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Alesana The Emptiness | 2.5 |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 2.5 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 3.0 |
| Gizmachi The Imbuing | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 4.5 |
| HORSE the band Pizza | 3.5 |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.5 |
| Look What I Did Atlas Drugged | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden | 2.5 |
| The Contortionist Apparition | 4.0 |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror | 2.5 |
| Oceano Depths | 2.0 |
| Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered | 4.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver | 3.0 |
| Mortal Treason Sunrise Over A Sea Of Blood | 3.5 |
| A Dozen Furies A Concept From Fire | 3.5 |
| Diecast Internal Revolution | 3.0 |
| Reflux The Illusion Of Democracy | 4.5 |
| Anterrabae Shakedown Tonight | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.0 |
| Dead Man In Reno Demo 2007 | 3.5 |
| Dead Man In Reno Ideology | 4.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Hits From the Bow | 3.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne All Access to All Things | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne L(ive) D(osage) 50: Live in Peoria DVD | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 4.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 2.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 3.0 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 3.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere Leak At Will | 3.0 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Relentless | 3.0 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Malice | 3.0 |
| Remembering Never Women and Children Die First | 3.0 |
| The Demonstration Accidents With Intelligence | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Fury and the Fallen Ones | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 5.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence (EP) | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.5 |
| D12 Devil's Night | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence Demo 2004 (Family Guy Demo) | 2.5 |
| Knives Exchanging Hands Hiatus | 3.5 |
| Knives Exchanging Hands The War Of Speech, The Weapon Of Words | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| The Boy Will Drown Fetish | 3.5 |
| Broadcast the Nightmare Twenty Twelve | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 5.0 |
| The Agony Scene The Darkest Red | 3.5 |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby | 5.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection | 2.5 |
| While no where near as terrible as their debut, this cd is simply put boring.Its worth 2 maybe 3 spins tops.I'll admit i like the re-recorded Sludge City, simply because it seems like it would be alotta fun live and most of those annoying pig squeals are gone.Some of the lyrics on this cd, are at least worth a chuckle. I mean who wouldn't laugh at "MY KNIFE IS DEEP INSIDE YOUR FUCKING UTERUS!" and my personal favorite "I'll sew my cock inside your cunt so were eternally fucking" lol wut? |
| A Thousand Times Repent Virtue Has Few Friends | 3.0 |
| Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno | 4.5 |
| Life in Your Way Waking Giants | 4.0 |
Yet another, amazing Melodic Hardcore band, that bit the dust.Waking Giants, is one of the most passionate cds,that i've heard, in the Melodic Hardcore genre.
The track Salty Grave is worth the price of admission alone, as it perfrectly sums up the bands sound as a whole, and features, one of the most captivating, spoken word sections of the genre.
So if your looking, to get into this great (yet unfortunately deceased) band, I advise you download Salty Grave,We Don't Believe and perhaps Reach The End.
I miss this band....*sob* |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak | 3.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 4.0 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Misery Signals | 4.5 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 4.0 |
| Oceana The Tide | 3.0 |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... | 4.5 |
"I'll let the world know what a wonderful person it will never get to meet."
listen to A Grey A.M You'll Never Get to See, one of the best songs to ever come from this genre. |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 5.0 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 5.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments | 4.0 |
| The Taste Of Blood Predator | 3.5 |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge | 3.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 5.0 |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 3.0 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 2.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls The Game Of Life | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 3.5 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
I like to chew on gum.i like to color paint. i like to eat shredded wheatttttttttttttttttt shredded and shredded wheattttttttttttt.
That is the only good thing to come from this bands existence that hilarious interpretation video we all know and love.
Fuck this band,seriously. |
| The Knife Trade/Through the Eyes of the Dead The Annihilation of Expectation | 4.5 |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead The Scars of Ages | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| From Graves of Valor Famine | 4.0 |
| The Arusha Accord Nightmares of the Ocean | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 3.0 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 4.5 |
I love this album, I wondered if they were ever going to surpass Of Malice, and with each listen i feel they may have or at least be on par with it.Everyone in the band stepped their game up.
Karl has definitely earned my grace especially with his singing performances in A Certain Death and Ebb and Flow,Branden never fails to amaze me with his intricate patterns and incredible fills like the ones in A Certain Death and Nothing.
Ryan and Stu wow just wow.I honestly wondered if they could top the ambient parts of Mirrors and Of Malice,yet still maintain the Metalcore sound and yes they have.I was simply blown away from the guitar work in Coma,Ebb and Flow, and Reset.
A real seller for this album was the lyrics from the thought provoking line of "Were just rehearsing who we think we are" from Coma to the to the powerful line of "Torch the fields and pray for rain" from Nothing, you won't find any whiny B.S about ex girlfriends here.What Jesse had in his lyrics were passion, and i absolutely loved this.However i'm also quite fond of Karls intrigueing and thought provoking lyrics of Control.
The production work of Devin Townsend helped to make Of Malice a classic Metalcore album and this is no different.This record combines the greatest aspects of Of Malice and Mirrors.4.5/5 Best of 08 by far! |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust | 4.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce | 4.0 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Changes | 3.5 |
| My Bitter End The Renovation | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 3.5 |
| A Black Rose Burial An Awakening of Revenants | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 3.0 |
| Inhale Exhale The Lost, the Sick, the Sacred | 2.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 3.0 |
| Beneath The Sky What Demons Do To Saints | 3.0 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 3.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 5.0 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 5.0 |
