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1. MTS

2. Loathe

3. Mac

It's okay

Closer best song. Other than that, not really for me.

Pretty good, especially lyrically.

Will probably end up my 2nd favorite album of the month behind MTS

Wanted to leave one more comment on this thread to confirm that this is my current AOTY. It's actually crazy how the singles were all good songs, but not really up to MTS quality, but then every other song on the album was spectacular (as of when the album leaked, who knows what singles they will release before 7/24). As for those 3 singles, I see how Drown With Me and Soul Decay fit into the soundscape of the album, and Drown With Me grew on me quite a bit with the whole album in mind. Erase Me is the most simply structured song on the album but worked really well as a first single and it's a good song, but definitely falls into the background with respect to the record as a whole.

My favorites, as I've alluded to, are every other song: Step One, Falling Ashes, Bones, Fake Your Own Death, title track, The Attendant, and That's Just Life. Most of these are just ignorantly heavy in what may seem as generic djent at times, but there's so many layers to the heaviness that I'd have to refute anyone trying to make that point. The tone of the ending of Step One is just more enjoyably heavy than most songs that bands in the scene put out, and that continues with Falling Ashes. The album as a whole just feels like a cohesive project that's brutal in its heaviness and ethereal when it needs to be, as well, and it does both aspects in super interesting and entertaining ways. 

EDIT: I also do think it's better than WA even though I loooooved WA. I just think this one is more consistently enjoyable to listen to.

Gotta go with a 9/10 on this and yeah AOTY so far, just edging out Loathe.

New Jersey represent 

I thought Erase Me was going to be one of my favorites, but now it's certainly not. It's that non-single amazing.

I dont want to over hype it, but it's a 1 listen aoty for me right now

Hmmm, I find the first 5 tracks pretty unlistenable other than Second Skin, but then tracks 6-11 are all solid minus How I Fall Apart which is just Currents at their worst & most melodramatic imo.

EDIT: Favorite is Split by a hefty margin

Insta groove on this one holy shit. And starts with "I cant breathe", perhaps the song was released early for reasons. Definitely up there with Erase Me for me.

1 minute ago, Mikasa said:

overexposed is so good wtf

Definitely my favorite

Just finished my first listen and I think it's really good. A tight 40min run time and not much fluff in the song writing quality either. If you like TGI and you like this style of metalcore, you're gonna love this record.

FINALLY. It's decent. They're still not announcing the album just yet though, but I heard soon.

EDIT: Sax outro is *chef's kiss*

This is a well put together metalcore album. Also...Firefall tho.

Good track but vocals seem suuuuper low

I love this. So beautiful and ethereal throughout, and the vocalist's melodies are consistently top notch. Possibly top 10 on the year for me when all is said and done.

That riff after the breakdown is tasty af

I'd say something off of Loathe's record or MTS - Erase Me

Oh shit I love these guys. Well I love their self titled (and the All I Ever Wanted Live Album). I'll check this out.

3 hours ago, Coma Witch said:

This song sucks lol. Go ahead and downvote me but god damn I was expecting it to be way better 

This man speaks the true true

Oh god the cringe on these track titles

Never listened to these guys but I didnt expect such a close sound to ABR. Sounds like a very good ABR song at least.

This is fuckin heat

The 1975 is for the boys