Emo's progenitor, it's forefather stained in blood and tears, clammy hands of souls wreathing the throats of the hand pulling the trigger in a vengeful catharsis. In blistering fury against man, God and self, the crimson-stained bullet pierces the seat of Heaven and the exit wound leaves its cavernous wake of semblance against the lopsided head of the corpse it once was. Crawl from the birthed wreckage, and experience the womb of scars that would give rise to such acts like I Hate Myself, Sunny ... read more

As far as dark cryptic moods go you can find seldom who nail it as hard as Sunny Day Real Estate did with this album here. The moody post-hardcore influence and the simply perfect vocal delivery front to back accentuates these melancholic yet haunting lyrics sung out with a real strain and tenuousness to them. They worm your way into the head in their striking statements, and leave remnants of ego death and love staining the blood on the concrete, the knife grasped in the hand of threnody, the ... read more

Much like Chaos Is Me, the longer tracks on this project, specifically the trio of Lights Out, I Am Nietzsche, and ...And the Cat Turned to Smoke are some of the best emoviolence/skramz songs I've heard in my entire life. They're weighty, emotional, louder than a fucking nuclear warhead, and feel like cathartic releases of all the angst and fury held in your bones in one singular freeing moment where for that one little second, you are truly alive

The other songs present, while still furious ... read more

Yea I feel like my head was blown off by a shotgun and someone set fire to my corpse while screaming out how this is only the beginning of the end

I've always had an interest in what Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López were doing musically before forming the absolute monolithic powerhouse of prog rock that we know as The Mars Volta. Their music under that name was some of the most regularly thrilling and exciting progressive rock I've heard since first discovering King ... read more