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Album Review: There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret.- Bring Me Horizon

In collaboration with @arfarfblegh

Release Date:

October 5, 2010

Tracklist:

1. Crucify Me [featuring Lights]

2. Anthem

3. It Never Ends

4. Fuck [featuring Josh Franceschi of You Me At Six]

5. Don't Go [featuring Lights]

6. Home Sweet Hole

7. Alligator Blood

8. Visions

9. Blacklist

10. Memorial

11. Blessed With A Curse

12. The Fox And The Wolf [featuring Josh Scogin of '68]

Favorite Track:

Alligator Blood

Least favorite track:

Don't Go

Album art opinions:

The album cover depicts a masked figure, split directly down the center. The left side has a black cloak, scarred and damaged skin, and is holding a dagger. The right side has a white cloak, the skin has no imperfections, and is holding a large ring with 3 keys on it. There is a keyhole in the center of the figures chest as well, the only feature other than the mask that is on both sides. Representing the duality of man and also heaven and hell, something alluded to several times throughout the album this is a fitting and visually striking album cover.

Color: 8/10

Recognizability: 7/10

Vibes: 9/10

Total: 8/10

Music opinions/notes:

The band honed in on the metalcore sound while also experimenting with symphonic, electric, and ambient sounds. Songs like It Never Ends, Don't Go, and Blessed With A Curse have those more experimental sounds while songs like Alligator Blood, Visions, and The Fox And The Wolf are the more metalcore focused sounds. The lyrics are a lot more focused on fighting with mental health and addiction; comparing them to heaven and hell. Oli's voice sounds emotional but very shot on some songs like Fuck and Don't Go. And while most of the production choices were great and innovative, others were questionable and odd, like the glitchy and choppy voice lines in the song Blacklist. Despite those few things, this album is fantastic and very energetic.

Mix: 6/10

Lyrics: 7/10

Instruments: 9/10

Vibes: 8/10

Total: 7/10

Total Score: 7/10

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self-proclaimed punk fans on this website suddenly really scared of violence in music only when it comes to rap

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I am begging all of you people who're on this music discourse right now and showing your whole ass, whatever genres of music you listen to probably have black artists that influenced them early in their histories. I'm reminded every time Hozier puts out a new song that none of you recognize that his music owes a lot to black artists beyond just featuring some in his songs occasionally. Go educate yourselves. Broaden your horizons even a little bit.

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Album Review: Suicide Season- Bring Me The Horizon

In collaboration with @arfarfblegh

Release Date:

September 30, 2008

Tracklist:

1. The Comedown

2. Chelsea Smile

3. It Was Written In Blood

4. Death Breath

5. Football Season is Over [featuring JJ Peters of Deez Nuts]

6. Sleep With One Eye Open

7. Diamonds Aren't Forever

8. The Sadness Will Never End [featuring Sam Carter of Architects]

9. No Need for Introductions, I've Read About Girls Like You On The Backs Of Toilet Doors

10. Suicide Season

Favorite Track:

Sleep With One Eye Open

Least favorite track:

It Was Written In Blood

Album art opinions:

The album cover features a woman in a black dress holding her own intestines in her hands with the bands name and album title in transparent grey text over the top of it. As this album covers personal topics, the picture is fitting, as "spilling your guts" is a figure of speech that means to tell everything about something secret and personal, the exact thing this album is doing.

Color: 5/10

Recognizability: 6/10

Vibes: 9/10

Total: 6/10

Music opinions/notes:

This is the first change in sound that the band has done and they pulled it off very well. The majority of the songs present a theme of struggling with mental health and dealing with suicide, and how it affects anyone and anything. Musically, they went more in a metalcore direction with emotional leads, uses of electronics, and more of a focus on melody. This album is also home to classics that are still perfomed live today, like Chelsea Smile and Diamonds Aren't Forever. Oli's lyrics, while still edgy, have proper themes and meanings instead of lyrical nonsense, which adds another layer of depth to the songs.

Mix: 6/10

Lyrics: 6/10

Instruments: 7/10

Vibes: 7/10

Total: 6/10

Total Score: 6/10

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Album Review: Count Your Blessings- Bring Me The Horizon

In collaboration with @arfarfblegh

Release Date:

October 30, 2006

Tracklist:

Pray For Plagues

Tell Slater Not To Wash His D**ck

Braille "For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only"

A Lot Like Vegas

Black & Blue

Slow Dance

Liquor & Love Lost

(I Used To Make Out With) Medusa

Fifteen Fathoms, Counting

Off The Heezay

Favorite Track:

Off The Heezay

Least favorite track:

Pray For Plagues

Album art opinions:

The album cover features mainly a large photo of a young girl in front of a shark tank at an aquarium, with 2 smaller pictures above it, the larger of which features jellyfish, and the other some colorful lines. Aside from a possible connection to the title of "Fifteen Fathoms, Counting" it doesn't seem to have much of a connection to the lyrical content or themes of the songs on the album.

Color: 6/10

Recognizability: 2/10

Vibes: 7/10

Total: 5/10

Music opinions/notes:

The bands age shows with this album, their youth upon the making and releasing of it apparent in the edgy and oftentimes nonsensical lyrical content. Metallica was a clear influence here, the guitar sounding incredibly reminiscent of Metallica lead guiartist Kirk Hammetts style. This album is a hard listen, especially considering that it has aged rather poorly, despite the bands respectable performance of the genre. Bring Me The Horizon as a memorable MySpace Era band with this record, something that they have since moved away from. There are a few toxic folks in the community that claim this is the bands best work, and to each their own, but rarely ever is a bands first teenaged efforts their best work.

Mix: 5/10

Lyrics: 2/10

Instruments: 6/10

Vibes: 4/10

Total: 4/10

Total Score: 4/10

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"New Born was directed by David Slade. He always used to make us wear a lot of yellow makeup. He'd paint us all yellow and say, 'Trust me' then we'd look in the mirror and look ridiculous. Our skin doesn't look all that unusual on screen, but we were completely fluorescent yellow for all the videos we've ever made with David Slade" - Matt Bellamy

New Born music video released 13 years ago today 💥

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May Artist Spotlight:

Brought to you in special collaboration with @arfarfblegh

Bring Me The Horizon

Genre:

Deathcore, Metalcore, Hard Rock, Pop Rock, Alternative Metal

Active Status:

2003-Present

Current album list:

Count Your Blessings (2006)

Suicide Season (2008)

There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret (2010)

Sempiternal (2013)

That's The Spirit (2015)

amo (2019)

POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR (2020)

Current Members:

Oliver Sykes- Vocals

Lee Malia- Guitar

Matt Kean- Bass

Mat Nicholls- Drums

Ex Member(s) of Importance:

Jordan Fish- Keyboard, Percussion (2013-2024)

Have I seen them live?

I have not seen them live, but with their ever improving live performances, I would like to sometime in the future.

Do I own any of their music on CD, and do I want any more?

I Have:

amo

I Want:

There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret

Sempiternal

POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR

That's the Spirit

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Album Ranking: Linkin Park

7. One More Light

6. A Thousand Suns

5. Minutes To Midnight

4. The Hunting Party

3. LIVING THINGS

2. Hybrid Theory

1. Meteora

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Album Review: One More Light- Linkin Park

Release Date:

May 19 2017

Tracklist:

Nobody Can Save Me

Good Goodbye (feat. Pusha T and Stormzy)

Talking to Myself

Battle Symphony

Invisible

Heavy (feat. Kiiara)

Sorry for Now

Halfway Right

One More Light

Sharp Edges

Favorite Track:

Talking to Myself

Least favorite track:

Halfway Right

Album art opinions:

The cover features the silhouettes of several children playing in the waves at a beach, a pinkish purple filer over the image. It is the most colorful Linkin Park album cover, meant to bring in feelings of home and family, which does go with the albums' soft, pop like sound.

Color: 6/10

Recognizability: 5/10

Vibes: 5/10

Total: 5/10

Music opinions/notes:

The first and only pop installment from Linkin Park, One More Light takes a sharp turn not only from the sound of the bands earlier discography, but an incredibly dramatic turn from their most recent album previous, the very strong rock album, The Hunting Party. The album is incredibly short, flying by in just over half an hour. As a pop album, nothing really stands out about it, especially among other pop releases of the time. The strongest vocal performance on the album comes from featured artist Kiiara on the song "Heavy" which makes sense as that's the only song that got widespread success upon the records release.

Mix: 8/10

Lyrics: 6/10

Instruments: 5/10

Vibes: 4/10

Total: 5/10

Total Score: 5/10

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Album Review: The Hunting Party- Linkin Park

Release Date:

June 13 2014

Tracklist:

Keys to the Kingdom

All for Nothing (feat. Page Hamilton)

Guilty All the Same (feat. Rakim)

The Summoning

War

Wastelands

Until It's Gone

Rebellion (feat. Daron Malakian)

Mark the Graves

Drawbar (feat. Tom Morello)

Final Masquerade

A Line in the Sand

Favorite Track:

Mark the Graves

Least favorite track:

Keys to the Kingdom

Album art opinions:

The album art features a humanoid creature with crystalline embellishments holding a drawn bow with a crystalline arrow. It's meant to show both the strength and the fragility of not only the character but the album itself.

Color: 2/10

Recognizability: 3/10

Vibes: 4/10

Total: 3/10

Music opinions/notes:

The Hunting Party is the most pure rock album we've gotten from Linkin Park thus far and a much more aggressive sounding record than the previous few albums. This album also includes several feature tracks, allowing influence from rock legends like Tom Morello and Daron Malakian, something the band had not done previously. The album seems to have the clear intention of pushing the band out of the comfortable space that the last few records had created and truly be a rock band for the first time since 2007. While the previous album was a homecoming in the sense of the electronic feel, this is a homecoming to pure rock, with hardly any electronic elements at all, having the guitars and drums carrying most of the record.

Mix: 8/10

Lyrics: 8/10

Instruments: 9/10

Vibes: 7/10

Total: 8/10

Total Score: 6/10

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New CDs for the Collection!

System of a Down- System of a Down

Gloom Division- I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

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Album Review: LIVING THINGS - Linkin Park

Release Date:

June 20 2012

Tracklist:

LOST IN THE ECHO

IN MY REMAINS

BURN IT DOWN

LIES GREED MISERY

I'LL BE GONE

CASTLE OF GLASS

VICTIMIZED

ROADS UNTRAVELED

SKIN TO BONE

UNTIL IT BREAKS

TINFOIL

POWERLESS

Favorite Track:

CASTLE OF GLASS

Least favorite track:

SKIN TO BONE

Album art opinions:

The cover features a figure of a person with a grey exoskeleton of sorts seemingly exploding off of the body, revealing a figure underneath. As this album is one that is mean to signify transformation and being ones Self this is rather fitting.

Color: 4/10

Recognizability: 3/10

Vibes: 6/10

Total:4 /10

Music opinions/notes:

This album features electronic elements, something that is definitely no stanger to Linkin Parks sound, though it is significantly more prominent in this record than ones past. It feels somewhat like a homecoming for the band, with strong vocals from both Chester and Mike with a clear direction for this album. It's cohesive, each song is distinct, and it continues the spirit of the first two iconic albums while pushing their sound in a new direction.

Mix: 9/10

Lyrics: 7/10

Instruments: 8/10

Vibes: 9/10

Total: 8/10

Total Score: 6/10

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Tracklist:

Dear Diary, • Parasite Eve • Teardrops • Obey • Itch For The Cure (When Will We Be Free?) • Kingslayer • 1x1 • Ludens • One Day The Only Butterflies Left Will Be In Your Chest As You March Towards Your Death

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Album Review: A Thousand Suns- Linkin Park

Release Date:

September 13 2010

Tracklist:

The Requiem

The Radiance

Burning in the Skies

Empty Spaces

When They Come For Me

Robot Boy

Jornada Del Muerto

Waiting for the End

Blackout

Wretches and Kings

Wisdom, Justice, and Love

Iridescent

Fallout

The Catalyst

The Messenger

Favorite Track:

The Catalyst

Least favorite track:

When they come for me

Album art opinions:

The album cover is an abstract depiction of the earth exploding with nuclear power, and if tilted 90 degrees to the left, looks vaguely like a skull. This is all very fitting, as this is a concept album about fear, annihilation, and specifically, nuclear war. The title of the album, "a thousand suns" is in reference to the first nuclear bombs being described to be "as bright as a thousand suns"

Color: 3/10

Recognizability: 1/10

Vibes: 5/10

Total: 3/10

Music opinions/notes:

As a concept album, it is very well made, there are several interludes inbetween songs to help transition from one Track to the next, but several handle that transition on their own. This does make the album a relatively easy listen, as there's no jarring changes between tracks, however this is not always for the benefit of the album. Because of the calmer tone of the record and the tracks bleeding so seamlessly between one another, it's hard to pick a standout track. The whole album feels like it's one big song, and considering it is the longest record in Linkin Park's discography, makes the whole project blur together into a dragging near 50 minute long ordeal.

Mix: 8/10

Lyrics: 6/10

Instruments: 7/10

Vibes: 5/10

Total: 6/10

Total Score: 4/10

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Album Review: Minutes To Midnight- Linkin Park

Release Date:

May 14 2007

Tracklist:

Wake

Given Up

Leave Out All The Rest

Bleed It Out

Shadow of the Day

What I've Done

Hands Held High

No More Sorrow

Valentines Day

In Between

In Pieces

The Little Things Give You Away

Favorite Track:

Bleed It Out

Least favorite track:

Valentines Day

Album art opinions:

The cover is a black and white photograph of the bands six members silhouettes against a bright white desert, with the album title and bands name over the top of them in large text. The barren desert setting a signifier that they feel isolated from the world but are together in this place. The fact that this is just their silhouettes and not a close up picture could also be signifying a sense of lacking identity, the way that many of their Lyrics seem to suggest

Color: 4/10

Recognizability: 8/10

Vibes: 5/10

Total: 5/10

Music opinions/notes:

This album marks the bands departure from nu metal music into something a bit softer, something that many view as the death of the band. To which I mostly agree. Aside from a few iconic tracks, this album lacks an energy throughout, and in my opinion, besides the songs that were released as singles from the album, there really isn't anything of note here. More than half the album feels directionless, distinctly lacking the hip hop bounce that was rather essential to the sound of the band previously. This paired with many tracks lacking a vocal from Mike Shinoda, it feels only half complete.

Mix: 7/10

Lyrics: 6/10

Instruments: 6/10

Vibes: 3/10

Total: 5/10

Total Score: 5/10

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Here's a spotify link

10:A song that makes you sad

Brother- Gerard Way

I literally sob every time I hear this song