If the hype for PRESIDENT was bewildering before, their debut full-length makes it borderline inexcusable.
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Showing Teeth’s destiny as metalcore’s newest megastar is already being fast-tracked into existence, even if her debut EP indicates it’s very premature.
The effort to improve and diversify themselves within metalcore handily overshadows some of the clumsiness on 156/Silence’s new album.
After a couple of middling albums, Movements are back on form, returning to emo that’s tried-and-true but still among their greatest strengths.
Anything that could stand out about SiM’s punk / reggae / alt-metal sound gets overshadowed by how painfully, cringe-worthily unfunny they are.
Even for a true, uncomplicated, meat-and-potatoes rock album, The Warning still have enough panache to give them a noteworthy edge.
Catch Your Breath’s new album sees them stick unerringly to type, with another batch of radio-friendly alt-metal completely starved of surprise or innovation.
In the wake of immense tragedy, Mastodon emerge at their most candid and explorative, all while maintaining the standard of one of the finest metal bands in the world.
Even in the 2010s heyday of scrubbed-clean, poppy post-hardcore, Colorblind’s debut full-length would’ve been the furthest thing from special.
Elements of ‘The Killers go country’ aren’t nearly enough to overshadow the barnstorming creative vision that Brandon Flowers has for his newest solo album.