Rock/Metal Album Reviews | 1 Year Challenge

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Sigur Rós - Ágćtis byrjun
Can - Tago Mago
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F-Sharp, A-Sharp, Infinity (F♯a♯∞)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

April 24th (i know this passed a week ago but this is more sharing albums rather than requesting a review)

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Deafheaven - Sunbather

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That's Artist-Album, yes? Just want to make sure.

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yep, it is

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thanks, was pretty sure it was that way, but had to be positive.

Keep the suggestions coming, I need lots!

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Dopesmoker - Sleep
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields (Some of these songs are rockish)
Zen Arcade - Husker Du
Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen
The Pod - Ween
Goat - The Jesus Lizard (Deliberate outlier)
The Glow Pt 2 - The Microphones
I Am The Cosmos - Chris Bell (Also somewhat an outlier)
Sebadoh - III
I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It! - BrokenCYDE (I'm sorry, I'm sorry)

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sup ymia i've got some horrible music here
April 29th
* Chicago - Chicago (1970)
* Chicago - Chicago III (1971)
* Tool - AEnima
* Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell: Volume 1
* Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell: Volume 2
* Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
* Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
* Linkin Park - Meteora
* Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
* Chimaira - Crown of Phantoms

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transplant from EzE thread

1. Delain - April Rain
2. Winger - Karma (one of my favorite albums of all time)
3. Boston - Boston
4. Firehouse - Firehouse
5. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
6. Whitesnake - Greatest Hits
7. Kiss - Sonicboom
8. Halestorm - The Strange Case Of...
If you can find them: (These are really good)
9. James Durbin - Memories of a Beautiful Disaster
10. Saigon Kick - The Lizard

July 23rd

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Fuck my initial start date I'm starting reviews today! My reviews will done in Stream of Consciousness, so I'll be writing the review as I'm listening.

ALBUM #1 (Suggested by EzExZeRo7497)

The Luna Sequence - They Follow You Home


Tracklist:

(Bolded Song is the Favorite of the Album)

1. I Eat Your Heart
2. The Famine
3. Hope on Black Wings
4. My Love Undone
5. Lure the Vultures
6. Scattered
7. The Path to Abandonment
8. Borderline
9. Lotus Descending
10. The Collective Voice
11. Ocean Under Light

An interesting instrumental album that utilizes electronic in it's songs often, quite well, too. The electronic usage is found almost immediately with the start of the album on I Eat Your Heart , and continues into The Famine. I'm beginning to believe that the album is actually more electronic with rock/metal influence, not vice versa. I enjoyed the rhythms, but overall, the first two tracks sounded pretty similar overall. The Famine had a buildup I very much enjoyed later in the song, however.

Hope on Black Wings is where I first really noticed why Eze suggested this. The song begins with some dark tones played at moderate speed on a guitar, then some heavy electric (guitar and literal electronic) kick in. The switching between calm and heavy in this song was really nice. My Love Undone has some great bass usage, throughout the song, however the synth melody I wasn't a fan of, that felt a little bland. Again, this song was pretty electronic. Lure the Vultures and Scattered were nothing special for the album, really. Sounded more or less identical to the first two tracks.

The Path to Abandonment and The Collective were more songs that the influence of Rock/Metal was heard, blending it with the electronic. These were most likely my second and third favorite songs. The remaining songs go back to being more generic electronic, nothing interesting.

Overall, the album was pretty unexciting to me. Hearing the first song (before hearing the others, obviously) was pretty cool, but after that it just felt like the same thing over and over again to me, nothing to dramatic changed. Also it was a bit closer to electronic than Rock/Metal, I'd say. Not necessarily bad, but not my cup of tea either. I wish it was a bit less electronic, really.

★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 5 - Decent


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My next review(s) will likely follow the same structure, with more or less detail depending on the genre and/or my knowledge of the given situation.

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Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You to Someone
Foals - Holy Fire
Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder...
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Priestess - Prior to the Fire
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Rise Against - The Sufferer & the Witness
Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
Thursday - No Devolución

birthday is oct 21 ! embrace your journey, awesome man

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Incubus - Enjoy Incubus EP
King Crimson - In the Court of King Crimson
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Rush - Moving Pictures
The Contortionist - Exoplanet
The Dear Hunter - Act 1: The Lake South The River North
The Dear Hunter - Color Spectrum (Nine 4-song EPs, so gonna make it count as two )

Dec 7th, if you could, save one of the Pink Floyd albums haha

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Billy Talent - II
Blood Stain Child - Epsilon
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3
A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You
Eluveitie - Slania
Hail the Villain - Population: Declining
*Marionette - Nerve
Russian Circles - Memorial
The Unguided - Hell Frost
Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood


November 13th

* Swapped this in because Volition is already on the list

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Sinergy - Suicide by my side
Necrophagist - Epitaph
IneartheD - Shining
Anal Cunt - I Like It When You Die
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Iniquity - Five Across The Eyes
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Marduk - Opus Nocturne
Marduk - Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered
Nitro - O.F.R.
Stam1na - SLK
Annihilator - Annihilator
Jungle Rot - What Horrors Await

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Parkway Drive - Atlas

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Been awhile since I've listened though and enjoyed a full album, but here are some that I enjoyed listening to the full albums. Prob going to use this thread to find some new music for myself as well.

Artist - Album

Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
Crown the Empire - The Fallout
The Devil Wears Prada - Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord
The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
For Today - Immortal
Motionless in White - Creatures
System of a Down - Hypnotize
System of a Down - Mezmerize
The Word Alive - Life Cycles