Plagues

GOOD

I'd say this album is better than Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord by a pretty wide margin. It still suffers from some of the problems Dear Love had, but some other problems have been resolved. As a whole, it's a stronger, more cohesive package that follows one sound rather than trying to grasp at many. It's also just a biiit more consistent--while Dear Love was a very love-or-hate album when it came to the tracklist, Plagues' quality remains pretty constant. It's nothing mindblowing, but ... read more

Plagues took a theme and really leaned into it. Taking it darker than fans expected, and showing that the band was more than just a Christian metalcore band. They were here to play, to mosh hard as fuck, and crab core all over the place. There is nothing better than blasting this out of your car driving downhill with no foot on the gas just cruising. It's really a bouncy and heavy display that at times feels like child-like posturing, but in some senses that was the myspace era.

I wasn't expecting this album to hit me this hard. I had only listened to Dead Throne before and wasn't very impressed, but this is so much better and I'm surprised doesn't get enough praise.

While I've never been huge into MySpace metalcore, this feels somehow different, and I think TDWP have sort of managed to distinguish themselves from it. The clean vocals still are in the style I'm not a huge fan of with in this sort of metalcore, but it's nowhere near ... read more

Competently arranged but falls into a lot of cliches especially in its breakdowns that I tend to not love