Hawthorne Heights

The Silence in Black and White

found this one in my partner's old CD collection at their mom's house. put it on just for shits. exactly the kind of stuff you'd expect to find in a high schooler's CD collection from 2007

those screams are some of the most awful and grating i've ever heard in music, WHY DOES HE DO IT LIKE THAT?!?!? by the end of the album it's almost too much to even hate-listen to

"The themes that are dealt with on the album, it's definitely an emo rock album. There's a lot of topics with death...problems that you're dealing with in life or touched on in this album, I think it's a really great record for when you're in your teenage years. There's a lot that can be helpful...I wouldn't suggest listening to the album if you were in a dark place...but I never really found myself in that place. Obviously it has the amazing singles, 'Ohio is for Lovers' and 'Niki FM' on ... read more

this is one of the most stereotypically emo albums ive ever heard, and idk if thats a good or a bad thing

this is bad, and even worse this is the reason everyone made fun of "emo" back in the 2000s when there were much better things

Formulaic in both it's writing and song structure. They have managed to take the same 4 chords and make 11 tracks. A feat not seen since the Ramones. Screams are way over the top and raw. Does not compliment well, but had enough of a shock factor to land them national attention in 2004. Just weird to enough to scare your myspace visitors.