Although Wage War’s newest has moments of their absolute best, bad habits continue to distract from their metalcore being as potent as it could be.
Tag: Fearless Records
On a whistlestop tour through everything metalcore and its vastly extended family, Capstan suffer from some massive overreach, though not without bright spots among it.
Still scrambling on many years after their peak, the Plain White T’s find themselves in mushy, maudlin pop territory that, to the surprise of no one, is awful.
In this Review Round-Up, there’s a selection of releases that falls further towards the middle of the pack, though HourHouse’s rap-metal is the clear standout against passé genre-mashing from Holy Wars, and uninteresting emo and pop-rock from Locket.
Boys Like Girls are back after 11 years, redressing their pop-rock to meet modern standards, and producing a pretty mixed bag along the way.
Movements’ new album yields some harsh shifts to augment their emo with indie and pop-rock tones, succeeding in individual pieces but struggling profusely to come together as a whole.
The good qualities of NOT A TOY’s debut full-length are far outweighed by how bland and uninteresting this angle in alt-trap-pop has become
In this Review Round-Up, Rise Of The Northstar should be better; Archetypes Collide are better than they should be; and The Bar Stool Preachers are just solid all around.
After a few years of inactivity, Pierce The Veil are back, and reshaping their brand of post-hardcore into its most organic and intriguing form yet.
In this Review Round-Up, Bush return with a significant jump in quality, while plenty of diverse, explorative sounds come from Charlotte Wessels and My Kid Brother.