First time seeing a KoRn album cover, eh?

That's far worse than any of their other covers I've seen.

This is by far their worst though.

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Yeah... uh..

Idk. I feel like that might be the real winner.

Right? Parental advisory stickers aren't even required anymore. Buncha lameos.

Not getting all the hate on their album covers. At least they're trying something different.

This is an alternate reality... or I prefer music that is at least excellent in its redundancy.

Today's review is Radiohead's Pablo Honey (A.later native Rock, Britpop)

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You: Like the intro. Really digging this.

Creep: I always felt like this song is a cheap rip off of Nirvana. Still feel that way.

How Do You?: This kind of has a punk rock vibe.

Stop Whisper: This song feels like a band doing everything they could to capitalize on the popular music of the time rather than do what they enjoy.

Thinking about You: Nice acoustic song.

Anyone Can Play Guitar: What is this intro? This is weird. Hahahaha. This has my attention. This is awesome.

Ripcord: Good grunge like song.

Vegetable: ^

Prove Yourself: ^^

I Can't: ^^^

Lurgee: I like this sound, but i wish there was something more to this album.

Blow Out: Fun grungey tune.

Final thoughts: This has one track that really stands out. The rest of the songs seem to be pretty interchangeable. Three star album.

Favorite track: Anyone Can Play Guitar

The new albums official cover.

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1. Waste of Space
2. Words Can't Hurt You
3. Meaningless Control
4. Whatever Happened to Alan Smithee?
5. Yellow (Ft. Don Belanger)
6. Sugar and Cocaine (ft. SNZZZOV*EN)
7. The Pope Lick Monster
8. Sorrow Filled Masturbation
9. Why Do You Haunt Me?
10. Soryu (ft. #####)
11. [Untittled]

@Ki @Tristan Geoff, message me and let me know what links to use for your guys' music. And am I using the right artist name for you?

Today's review is Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures

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Haven't heard of this band before this site, so this should be interesting.

Disorder: Nice mellow song. Not digging these vocals too much.

Day Of the Lords: Really like this guitar work. Has a psychedelic feel. I'm not liking this guy's vocals but it does not ruin this music. Ok! This is a strong way to end a song.

Candidate: Drums are slowly coming in. Singers voice is way too front and center in this. I don't know what is happening instrumentally, but I want to hear more of it.

Insight: ... weird intro... ok... is there a door opening and closing in this song? Vocals are even worse in this. And suddenly this sounds like star wars. Hahahaha! Well, this is keeping my attention.

New Dawn Fades: intro is something playing backwards... cool. I love this guitar! Did they change vocalists? Cause this is better. Oh its the same guy just singing differently. Ok. He should sing like this for the rest of the album. The longer this song goes the more I love it. Sweet solo.

She's Lost Control: God no to these vocals... this is godawful... someone please tell me he doesn't do that again. Instrumentals are awesome, but this vocalist is just awful here. :whythis: I like the instrumentation, but no to this vocalist.

Shadowplay: Ok. Better vocals, but really, he should go back to singing like he did on the insight track.

Wilderness: I dig this.

Interzone: Wow! That guitar. This is fast (compared to the rest of the album) and awesome. Vocals are decent.

I Remember Nothing: Song starts with someone shaving with an electric razor. I seriously thought that my razor had turned on somehow. I was so confused. Though I am digging how this song goes. This might be my second favorite song on this album.

Final thoughts: Album is decent. Good instruments but suffers due to the vocalist.

Favorite track: New Dawn Fades

They're a decent band, I agree. That album is pretty important in the grand scope of post-punk, but it's just not all that great in my opinion. It's not so much the vocals as it is the whole dreary depressing gimmick starts to get old pretty quickly, and the two first songs are the best on the entire record so I tend to stop listening after that.

If you want some good ass post-punk I'll throw in a rec for Television's Marquee Moon. Everyone kept telling me how great it was and I finally got around to it a week or so ago, and it totally rocked my socks off.

I don't mind the depressing gimmick (Nirvana's one of my all-time favorite bands) but the album didn't need it.

I'll give Television a listen.

I think the difference is Nirvana mix things up with anger, angst (lol JGuy), and even comedy at times. I find Unknown Pleasures to be a lot of the same thing over and over again, but not in a cool Burzum kind of way.

Feel free to use the ##### project since that's where I pulled my ideas from:
https://thenumber7.bandcamp.com/

The artist name is perfect as well. Excited.

Today's review is The Funeral Portrait's For The Dearly Departed.

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I don't know how this got on my record list. But no reason not to listen. Here we go.

Casanova (Chest LA Vie): Oh god! This is fucking awful! This is awful! This guy screams like a pussy. These lyrics feel like a three year old wrote them.

A River In Egypt: Who repped this? It's terrible! This generic Metalcore is retarded. Blegh!

Special thanks to the customer that needed help forcing me to pause this. You will be loved forever for this. Now to hit play... Oh god make it stop!

All My Circuits: ... I get it! You're depressed, now please come up with something original.

Marrow: I don't think I can keep this going. Now they think they can djent. :banghead: wait... what's this? I like this soft guitar with electronic drums.

Optimist: Well, this isn't too bad.... I take that back... This is terrible. OK, I GET IT! YOU WANT TO BE BRING ME THE HORIZON!

Who repped this? I am no longer taking your suggestions. At least Carly was decent music. This is just bad.

Wax Romantic: So close to the finish line! Almost there!

Interview with Funeral Portrait (not actual interview)
Interviewer: I would ask about your influences but you're basically a carbon copy of Killswitch Engage. So no point in that.
Funeral Portrait: Yep

Is this song done yet... nope.
...
It's over!

Final thoughts: To be fair, I'm being a bit melodramatic above. This EP isn't god awful... but it's not good. I don't mind generic music, but this in no way feels like the artists are making what they like. It feels like a label band.

Favorite track: Don't have one.

I'm gonna assume Ki rec'd it, but Tristan is also a suspect.

No. I have no idea who that is he reviewed.

I did no such thing.

I blame Violet, he played Atreyu today in plug.

Probably a good assumption. And he was probably playing my Atreyu song. "Doomsday" is the only Atreyu song I can remember, but it's gold.

I figured it out. The rec is on the first page.

That bitch.

Today's review is MC Trustan's Metamorphic Train Wrec.

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Intor_ To The Album: What is going on? This funky vibe with awful vocals is... The single best thing ever! Fuck you Fred Durst, we have MC Trustan.

Every M0rn|ng: Oh this is my jam!

$address $ong ($kit): Best cover ever! Better than the original. Did you just metalout green day? I love this!

No Sleep for Tristan: Fuck RATM, this is the best shit ever. MC Trustan is my hero.

No sleep for tristan!

DN $$$1ggy: This **** is the ****!

Songs are too short for me to do the play by play... Sorry Trist. :(

**** off Napalm Death! Tristan just beat you.

This album is easily the best thing MB has ever offered the world. All hail our overlord Tristan, the greatest artist of us all. This album makes embarrassed about my album that comes out November 5th.

This really says it all.

Bitch, you just wish you could spit sick bars like MC Trustan!

You saying this really says it all.

MC Trustan for Life!

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2...ality=90&w=650

Too Sweet!

I.. I'm flattered.


And yeah, this was obviously my attempt at making a train wreck album in the vein of Speedin Bullet 2 Heaven and Angelic 2 Tha Core.

Today's review is Sunny Days Real Estate's Diary (Midwest Emo, Emo, Alternative Rock, Post-Hardcore)

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Ok. Since the rock album survivor thread is doing Emo, I'll give these albums a listen and try to vote. Here goes nothing.

Seven: Ok. We have some alternative rock beat at a faster tempo. The song slowed down, and the tempo picks right back up. Really digging this song.

In Circles: I hope the whole albums instrumentals don't sound like this. It's good for a song or two but i like the drums to take a background to the guitar. Chorus is decent.

Song About An Angel: This song starts with a slow tempo. We have some drums come in. And then a build into what I assume is the chorus. I haven't understood a lyric he's sang so far. He's pretty much just mumbling.

Round: I really enjoy the guitar work here. Well done. These guys really make the drumming prominent.

47: They're really letting the guitarist stand out here.

The Blankets Were Stairs: Slow build into some guitar work and then the overbearing drums come into it.

Pheurton Skeurto: a piano comes in for the intro for this one. Very nice. Piano keeps for the entirety of the song.

Shadows: Easy guitar to start this off. Hey, I can actually understand what the singer is saying. This might easily be my favorite song. It just comes together so nicely.

48: This band has their formula and they're sticking to it.

Grendel: Ok, we have some feedback and what sounds like breathing kicking the album off. And now we have some light guitar with minor drum work. Not sure what's going on vocally. It's weird. I really love the bridge into the chorus.

Sometimes: This is probably the most mellow song on the whole album. Well, til the chorus.

Final thoughts: I was hoping for something more. This album has loads of potential, but seems to struggle in realizing it. The band has a formula and seems to be happy with it. That said, for what the album is its a fantastic album.

Favorite track: Shadows

Today's review is Meineral's EndSerenading (Midwest Emo, Slowcore)

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Love Letter Typewriter: Very depressing song

Palisade: Love this intro.

Gjs: Good song.

Unfinished: These soft melodic guitars with melodic vocals is interesting. I'm not sure what makes this slowcore

For Ivadell: Good song

Waking to Winter: ^

A Letter: Frankly there's not a lot I can say about this album that I didn't say about Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary.

Sounds Like Sunday: Well, I didn't know Sunday had a sound.

&Serenading: Good song

The Last Word Is Rejoice: Oh, I like the synth (I think that's synth) in the intro. Nice easy guitar comes on top of it playing slowly. Now some easy drum to really bring this all home. This might be my favorite song with the slow build of the drums.

Final thoughts: This album is good, but frankly I found Sunny Days Real Estate to be a bit more enjoyable with the more distorted guitars and more dramatic tonal shifts in the music.

Favorite track: The Last Word Is Rejoice

Today's review is Cursive's Domestica (Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore
Emo, Post-Hardcore)

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This is the third album on the list of the Emo stuff for the rock album survivor. This band is also on Saddle Creek Records. Which is a major (I think they're major) record label out of my home town. I've never listened to anything from them so this should be interesting.

The Casualty: Fuck this intro is epic! Wow! This song is so much better than anything on those two other records. God, this "yell" is raw and awesome.

The Martyr: Epic transition. Amazing music. This song gets better as it goes on.

Shallow Means, Deep Ends: Electronica intro, not as cool as the other two. But the guitar is coming into it and it's right back to the epic music. And it never relents.

Making Friends and Acquaintances: This track is a bit lighter. Lots of awesome bass here. Gets heavier as the song goes along.

A Red So Deep: Awesome intro. I hear some country twang in the guitar. And its gone. God, this music has been so epic. I love it. They deconstruct the entire song and then throw it all right back at you, so we'll done.

The Lament of Pretty Baby: Hi-hat and some angry guitar. It keeps building into something increasingly better.

The Game of Who Needs Who the Worst: Lovely intro. This music is written so it all comes together so nicely.

The Radiator Hums: Awesome song

The Night I Lost the Will to Fight: Some awesome guitar work, again. This guitarist is really good.

Final thoughts: This album shocked me. I was expecting something with decent music, but not something this good. This was a very pleasant surprise.

Favorite track: The Lament of Pretty Baby

Suck that, Qwertyy. Cursive is life.

I didn't say they weren't, emo *** poseur.

Anyone who doesn't think Cursive is ****ing amazing needs to **** off and die. You are everything that is wrong with society.

I would like to ask why the **** Modern Baseball weren't on the emo list tho.

?

American Football is totally on the list.

Easy. Too many great emo bands to choose from. Sorry bout it.

I am going to to take a moment to talk about my new album. Stuck Between The Parallels of Man & Monster.

When I started the project I set four guidelines for myself and let's see if I actually met them.

The first one was that all songs must be 3 minutes or longer. :yeah: All tracks were over the three minute mark.

No less than ten tracks. :yeah: I had 11 tracks, so we're good.

Cohesive flow between songs :( I missed the mark on this. All the songs after Sugar & Cocaine didn't really have that great of flow. Should've spent some more time on that.

Each song must have one major quality about it that sets it apart from the other songs. :yeah: I was afraid I was going to screw this up. I kept reusing the same scale, which could've thrown me into a loop of redundancy within the music. Luckily I started to force myself to branch out more when this occurred to me. The first thing I wrote after the realization was what ended up being my favorite song on the album, Sorrow Filled Masturbation. To quote a friend of mine upon hearing it, "it's trippy."

So all and all, I'm happy with this release. The music is strong and holds up on its own.

Today's review is The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die's Whenever, If Ever (Midwest Emo, Post-Rock)

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blank #9: Seems it's building to something. And soft melodic guitar comes in quickly followed by what I think is a cello.

Heartbeat in the Brain: Some guitar building and a beat comes in. Really dug these tracks so far. This vocalist has some weird **** happening here. He sounds like pre-pubescent little boy.

Fightboat: Track starts with a horn. Nice build. Needs a better vocalist.

Picture of a Tree That Doesn't Look Okay: Like this guitar. Sweet deep bass happening in the background. The vocalist is a lot better here. More tolerable. I really like how the track built into something more fast paced.

You Will Never Go to Space: Really digging this track.

The Layers of Skin We Drag Around: This track doesn't really build. It gets straight to business. Well, it pauses and gives us a brief build. It's a short track.

Ultimate Steve: Nice easy guitar slowly building. This could be my favorite track. The chorus of boys singing is kind of welcomed idea. Gives the song a unique feel. Some really cool drum work happening. And it ends the track.

Gig Life: To transition it into this track. And it is a acoustic track. And we have the pre-pubescent singing again.

Low Light Assembly: Not sure what happened in that intro. But we have some piano in the intro of the song. This could easily be a contender for a favorite track.

Getting Sodas: Nice easy guitar. Unique track. Wraps up the album nicely.

Final thoughts: This album was better then Sunny Day or Mineral but not as good as Cursive.

Favorite track. Ultimate Steve.