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Average Rating: 3.60
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Objectivity Score: 75%
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Periphery Juggernaut: Omega4.5
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha3.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues4.0
Between the Buried and Me Alaska4.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors5.0
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect4.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence4.0
Trivium Vengeance Falls1.0
Trivium In Waves1.5
Protest the Hero Volition5.0
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion5.0
ERRA Moments of Clarity3.0
ERRA Augment3.0
Job For A Cowboy Genesis2.5
Job For A Cowboy Ruination3.5
Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy3.5
Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater4.0
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails5.0
Entities Novalis5.0
Aegaeon Dissension3.5
Protest the Hero Scurrilous4.0
Protest the Hero Fortress5.0
The Afterimage Formless2.5
Auras Panacea3.0
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites3.0
Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex3.0
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security4.0
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us4.0
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise3.5
August Burns Red Messengers4.0
August Burns Red Constellations4.0
Slice the Cake Other Slices3.0
Slice the Cake The Man With No Face4.0
Intervals In Time4.0
Structures All of the Above4.0
Structures Divided By2.0
Entities Aether5.0
Capture Til Death1.0
Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads2.5
The Haarp Machine Disclosure3.0
Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand1.5
Wintersun Time I3.5
The Faceless Autotheism4.0
The Contortionist Intrinsic2.0
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns4.0
Monuments (UK) Gnosis3.0
Beheading of a King Quasar: Preserving Legacy4.0
Elitist Reshape Reason2.5
Overall, 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 ):
Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless1.0
The Contortionist Exoplanet4.0
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal5.0
Reflections The Fantasy Effect2.0
Terrible production, annoying vocals, guitar wankery everywhere and just bad song writing in general.
The Faceless Akeldama2.5
The Faceless Planetary Duality5.0
Molotov Solution Insurrection3.0
Haunted Shores Cyclamen/Haunted Shores Split4.0
Shadow of the Colossus Shadow of the Colossus4.5
Journal Unlorja4.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal5.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate4.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual2.5
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders5.0
Animals As Leaders Weightless4.0
TesseracT Concealing Fate4.0
Martyrdom (USA-CA) Slaying GIants3.5
Wintersun Wintersun5.0
Meshuggah obZen3.5
Corelia Nostalgia5.0
Meshuggah Koloss1.0
One of the worst albums i have heard in my entire life, can't believe i bought this piece of shit.
Volumes The Concept of Dreaming4.0
After the Burial Forging a Future Self3.5
After the Burial In Dreams1.5
Veil of Maya All Things Set Aside3.0
Veil of Maya [id]3.5
Trivium Ember to Inferno4.0
Trivium Shogun4.5
Trivium The Crusade1.5
Trivium Ascendancy4.5
Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us2.5
Entities Luminosity5.0
I See Stars Digital Renegade1.0
ERRA Andromeda3.0
ERRA ERRA4.5
Elitist Earth2.5
Ovid's Withering The Cloud Gatherer3.0
Certainly 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.
T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca2.5
Conducting from the Grave Revenants2.0
Completely underwhelming album compared to the first /:
Volumes Via4.0
Periphery Periphery4.0
Veil of Maya Eclipse4.5
Aristeia Era Of The Omnipotent4.5
Counterparts Prophets4.0
Substructure Monolith4.0
Fallujah The Harvest Wombs4.5
Ever Forthright Ever Forthright5.0
ERRA Impulse4.5
Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion4.5
Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly3.5
Fallujah Leper Colony2.0
A 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!
Elitist Caves5.0
Born of Osiris The Discovery2.5
Was 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.
The Human Abstract Digital Veil3.0
Solid 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
The Human Abstract Nocturne4.5
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk1.5
Born of Osiris The New Reign4.0
Born of Osiris A Higher Place3.5
The Contortionist Apparition4.5
Painted in Exile Revitalized4.5
After the Burial Rareform4.5
Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse5.0
Return From Exile Return From Exile5.0
Crapped 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!
At Dawn Undead EP4.0
Have 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!
Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust5.0
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