I don't really have much to say about this album, other than that it's a very great political record and that Township Rebellion is severely underrated.

- Tim Hecker - Part 16 - "Anoyo" (05/10/2019) -

Basically, this is a continuation of Konoyo, one of my all time favorite Tim Hecker albums. I was guaranteed to like this album, I mean "That world" is already one of my favorite Tim Hecker songs, and the rest of the album follows a similar path of "Konoyo". The one thing that's different about this album is that it isn't as demanding on the ears compared to "Konoyo". Everything is more gently ... read more

Genuine conversation (raw unfiltered Discord DMs) I had with a Queens of the Stone Age fan:

"You like Queens of the Stone Age"
"their most popular song yeah
I heard theyre really good tho"
"What song is that"
"No One Knows"
"I HATE THAT SONG SO FUCKING MUCH IT IS SO OVERPLAYED
THEY MADE ME HATE IT"
"of course you do
i dont listen to the radio that much so"

I don't think he likes this song. But I do. 100.

The singles on here had me thinking that it would be one of my all time favorite Breaking Benjamin albums, but honestly there are moments that aren't as strong. The most painful part is that it's not necessarily because they're bad songs at all, they just don't have the same energy as something like "Blood" or "Red Cold River" or "Feed the Wolf". For being Breaking Benjamin's heaviest output, I was hoping for a very great alt-metal album, ... read more

This album is amazing. After SURVIVAL HORROR grew on me a lot I decided to check out NeX GEn to see if my thoughts changed on that album too, and they definitely did. There's so many different ideas here that all flow together very well, and even if I'm not a big emo guy I found myself really jamming out to these songs. Again there is just so much, even a track featuring Lil Uzi Vert... because why not?

I gotta say one of my favorite tracks on this album though was "Top 10 ... read more

This version is so much better than what we got on the album. I mean you got three feature vocalists plus Machine Head, and they add so much replay value to it. As much as I hate to dog on one of my favorite bands, it's clear Robb's voice is starting to give out, and having the other vocalists on here carried it so hard. Also it's just a great song.

Why they didn't just put this on the album instead of the poorly produced version that we got is a question I can't ... read more

- Tim Hecker - Part 15 - "Konoyo" (09/28/2018) -

I think I underestimated Tim Hecker whenever I said this guy constantly pushes his boundaries because, sometimes, he will absolutely crush them in every way he possibly can. "Konoyo" is the prime example of this. While the last three albums were pretty great for what they were, it was all Tim just completely pushing what he could do with his music. In a way he was trying to find the next groundbreaking sound in his ... read more

- Tim Hecker - Part 14 - "Love Streams" (04/8/2016) -

Almost three years since "Virgins" came out, Tim Hecker drops a release. Obviously I had high hopes coming off of Virgins, but then again, look at this gap of time. I can't just automatically say this is going to be fire, but then again this is Tim Hecker, so you know, there's a little glaze with every drop or so.

In my opinion it's great. The whole idea I think Tim was going for on this album, from what ... read more

Remember when I said I saw these guys live? Yeah I'm going to see them AGAIN with Vomit Forth. They're just that good, and this is their best album yet. It has the brutality of their first two records with a bunch of other twists including some pretty ominous melodic riffs that add some variety to this album that make it not just straight up death metal. Also Jami Morgan is on this album; and for how this album opens up, it's showing how powerful death metal still is. The band ... read more

- Tim Hecker - Part 13 - "Virgins" (10/14/2013) -

I can't believe Tim Hecker made an album named after the members of this website! How cool.

Nah I'm not gonna lie it isn't my favorite Tim Hecker album, but it was presented to me like it was supposed to be his "best work yet". Personally I have to disagree, but it's still an amazing album. It's yet again another album where he pushes his sound to the next level, and this feels like a more complex ... read more

Tim Hecker - Part 12 - "Instrumental Tourist" (11/20/2012)

Not really feeling this one. The reason why is just because Tim just has better stuff; it's not really easy to explain because this is ambient, well, maybe listen to "GRM Blue I" and "II" because those tracks genuinely hurt my ears. Thankfully I see the vision but it's just not good in my opinion. The rest of the album just kind of consists of solid ambient but even then I'd rather pull up ... read more

Maybe I gotta take this hardcore and punk rock stuff seriously from now on?

Granted I haven't heard every Rise Against record, but I feel like this would be their peak. I mean, they would have dropped "Appeal to Reason" later on, their most popular album, and then earlier they dropped "Siren Song of the Counter Culture", which has some great songs before this album.

At least these three records are the ones that interest me the most, especially "The Sufferer ... read more

Tim Hecker - Part 11 - "Dropped Pianos" (10/11/2011)

A good counterpart for "Ravedeath, 1972" that takes a larger focus on piano compositions, and while it isn't nearly as good as the album, it is still a very good showcase of how Tim Hecker expands on his discography in many creative ways.

Look, even if you dislike Machine Head because of either just not enjoying this kind of metal, Robb Flynn, or both, The Blackening is pretty much a must hear metal album; it might have even been the best metal album of that year. The sheer power that this band had in the songwriting, instrumentals, and just overall performance completely fries every other metal band of the time. Finally, from the band's start in a solid groove metal era, to a really weird crisis of trying to fit in to the ... read more

"I freakin' hate Avenged Sevenfold" - World History teacher in Sophomore year

It's been a hot minute since I discussed Avenged Sevenfold, but since this album dropped 20 years ago and everyone either loves this album like the second coming of Christ or hates it like Satan, I will listen to it again. It is beyond nostalgic; back in those days when I thought Slipknot was the hardest metal I've ever heard in my life, Knocked Loose was gaining more and more traction than ... read more

70 to 86

Holy moly guacamole. This has so much flavor in it to unpack. There is so much. It's almost too much. And to think it's an EP; man it might as well be an ALBUM for how fulfilling this listen was.

We start off with "Dear Diary", which sounds like they were trying to do something reminiscent of the sound from their early metalcore days. Trust me I'm all here for that. It has a killer breakdown at the end that has the Deftones Swerve City riff (because why not, ... read more

The band's best song

For a band that was so universally hated in its peak, it's honestly surprising how great their first officially released song was. The lyrics have a lot of substance in them, which if I remember reading were created following a dream that Scott Stapp had. If he was just writing these straight as they came out of his head then that's just impressive. This is one of the most well-written songs from the post-grunge era and shows that the band actually had some ... read more

What a weird album to come out with! This is where I can see the pretentious accusations being accurate; I mean there's this one song that runs for twenty-four minutes and 5/6 of it is just Oli talking over a trippy beat. Some of the songs run for way too long than they probably should, but at least they got some cool moments. I like the instrumental for "Steal Something." and the atmosphere on the second half of the album; hell even that twenty-four minute song has some decent ... read more

Not that bad. I thought I wouldn't like it but I ended up really loving it, and there's a lot of good songs on here. "MANTRA", "nihilist blues", "wonderful life", etc. I think this was a perfectly fine direction for them to take, especially with what they'd end up dropping later down the line. Even if it's put out to be their "poppiest album", there's still some solid alt-rock bites out of it that I enjoy, and it still sounds like ... read more

What the hell was that...

I think I've said this before but there was a time when Slaughter to Prevail blew my socks off as one of the heaviest things I heard back when I was originally getting into metal. Although I'm loving some modern deathcore materials, old school deathcore has a certain charm to it that modern deathcore can't replicate (I'm not being an oldhead, since modern deathcore equally has a charm that that old MySpace era can't even comprehend; I'd ... read more