While I did really like the instrumental of this ep, I found the vocals to be really obnoxious and that sadly ruined it for me.
FFAK really went: no one cares about the parts of the song that aren't the breakdown, so let's just chain breakdowns for 3 minutes and call it good. This worked out amazingly somehow and produced an album that to this day contains some of my favs from Fit For a King. The one calm song(Skin and Bones) is also pretty good.
Highlights: Destruction, Bitter End
Low Points: Identity, The Lioness
A couple decent tracks here but most of the songs just made me cringe a lot lol. Don't really understand the praise this album is getting when there are multiple other albums that go for a similar vibe and do a better job at it. If you want electronic or breakcore in your metal then CANDY or fallingwithscissors are both better options imo.
Highlights: Delirium, I Don't
Low Points: Neon, Faded
Poppy choruses in metalcore have been overdone for years at this point. The song is well made but doesn't really do anything interesting.
I forgot how good this album is. Oh, Sleeper are a band that I really feel has the potential to release a perfect 100 for me. They blend together all sorts of different styles of metalcore and make it work really well. It gets very mathy at points and those parts are some of my favorite mathcore I've ever heard. It also has far more interesting djenty parts than most bands out there do. I really hopw thay this band releases some new music soon.
Highlights: The Marriage of Steel and ... read more
When they said that this was going to be a heavy single I kinda expected it to just be Backbreaker part 5(which I would have been ok with), but this is a new interesting direction for the band. Overall a good single and the better of the two released this year imo.
Reallylike these guy's comedy videos and it's cool to see them branch out into other things. Happy for them because they seem to be pretty proud of this.
Overall a really fun hard hitting album. I could definitely see this one growing on me. I really need to dig more into some more actual hardcore that isn't metalcore lol.
Highlights: DON'T NEED, ONLY FOES..., THE FIRST TEST
Low Points: none tbh
Two new songs plus live recordings of the two best off their last album? Yes please
Their last single was really good but I really wasn't a fan of the vocal effects on this one
I love melodic metalcore and I think this band has dropped some bangers in the past but this song is missing something. It lacks the amount of grit I want from this kind of track.
Butt-rock band RED was so good that King Crimson made a whole album about them.
Highlight: One More Red Nightmare
Low Point: Providence
I discovered these guys through YouTube Shorts and then learned they had a band shortly before this dropped. While it's not really anything new that blew my socks off, it was a very fun well made metalcore release and you can tell that they are just having fun making the kind of music they love so I enjoyed it quite a bit. I also always fuck with some uplifting lyrics in my metalcore.
Highlights: Those Who Wait, Serene
Low Points: Introspect
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