Transcend-Always considered to me as a lame side project from carlisle and forsberg who used to be in mortification. The album comes off as grindy hardcore influenced death metal with hints of punk. The album wasn't anything special, and thats why it's sold so cheap. This cd is basically one you buy and you just let sit on the cd rack until you are really bored or haven't reviewed it yet and want to get the listening over with. I never understood why they put and intro track and then track 2 which was titled "Portal (intro)". They did the same thing with the last two tracks. An intro to an intro and an outro to the outro. It was probably the dumbest idea a musician has fabricated. Recommended to fans of: Mortification and Martyrs Shrine. Overall Rating: 5/10
Between The Buried And Me-The album that started it all. This album shows some of their heavier elements that were shed off later in their career. Although they didn't have too many breakdowns, you can consider it metalcore w/i deathcore elements. BTBAM started off the whole craze of progcore (along with converge) and since we have seen these shitty crossovercore bands that are influenced by BTBAM and have no true metal influence at all (ie: august burns red, drop dead gorgeous, He Is Legend!, Sky Eats Airplane, etc). In this cd you also hear some good raw light material relative to "The Silent Circus" light material. My key part of the album is the song with the power metal vocals that show up for a short couple of lines in it. I'm hopeful that they will take those vocals and use them again in a new album. Recommended to fans of: As I Lay Dying, late 90's/early 90's metalcore. Overall Rating: 7.4/10
Promotional Copy-People look at we weirdly when i tell them i love RATFE. I usually never think humor should belong in music; but sometimes you just need an escape from music when you're addicted to it as i am. This album, i never really understood, or really cared for. I listened to it recently and laughed and now i really like it and i can grasp it differently. It was funny when i read that this CD wasn't even ever supposed to be released. Someone found the master demos and then deewees (ratfe's core member) approved to make all the stuff into the album; some of the songs didn't even have titles so they just gave it a name that seemed fit. This album is really happy-go-lucky and shows that anyone can have fun with anything and anyone. Recommended to fans of: The Postal Service, The Get Up Kids, Converge, Electronicore, and Emocore. Overall Rating: 7.2/10
As Daylight Dies-I've had a real hard time accepting this release. I really hate mainstream music and music that is extremely popular. I bought this back in my metalcore phase with high hopes. I listened to it nonstop for weeks. Then some faggy kids started annoying me and i started getting bored of the repetitiveness of the CD, which compromised why i gave it to my sister. I was sick of hearing it. Recently, i decided, while actually looking for my Armor For Sleep CD i gave my sister, to take back the CD and give it another chance. I was surprised that i still remember most of the lyrics and the songs. It's quite enjoyable now that i've had a long time away from it. I just got to remember that too much of this band makes them = pop shit emocore. I advise to only listen to this on occasion, no more than a couple times a month. Recommended to fans of: Hatebreed, As I Lay Dying, Disturbed, All That Remains, shit metalcore/hard rock. Overall Rating: 7.6/10
Panopticon-I never liked isis that much; never gave them a chance until my bassist started liking them recently. I listened to his favorite songs and loved them. So i downloaded their whole library online and then went out to buy Panopticon. I can really consider this my favorite Atmospheric Sludge release as of now. The CD is a complexity of 5/4 and 3/4 time frames, alternating respectively; where in some songs i lose where i am. The CD shows the talent and beauty by the musicians. Recommended to fans of: Mountains Became Machines, Bossk, Irreversible, Pelican, Russian Circles, all key atmospheric sludge bands. Overall Rating: 10/10
Transcend-Always considered to me as a lame side project from carlisle and forsberg who used to be in mortification. The album comes off as grindy hardcore influenced death metal with hints of punk. The album wasn't anything special, and thats why it's sold so cheap. This cd is basically one you buy and you just let sit on the cd rack until you are really bored or haven't reviewed it yet and want to get the listening over with. I never understood why they put and intro track and then track 2 which was titled "Portal (intro)". They did the same thing with the last two tracks. An intro to an intro and an outro to the outro. It was probably the dumbest idea a musician has fabricated. Recommended to fans of: Mortification and Martyrs Shrine. Overall Rating: 5/10
Between The Buried And Me-The album that started it all. This album shows some of their heavier elements that were shed off later in their career. Although they didn't have too many breakdowns, you can consider it metalcore w/i deathcore elements. BTBAM started off the whole craze of progcore (along with converge) and since we have seen these shitty crossovercore bands that are influenced by BTBAM and have no true metal influence at all (ie: august burns red, drop dead gorgeous, He Is Legend!, Sky Eats Airplane, etc). In this cd you also hear some good raw light material relative to "The Silent Circus" light material. My key part of the album is the song with the power metal vocals that show up for a short couple of lines in it. I'm hopeful that they will take those vocals and use them again in a new album. Recommended to fans of: As I Lay Dying, late 90's/early 90's metalcore. Overall Rating: 7.4/10
Promotional Copy-People look at we weirdly when i tell them i love RATFE. I usually never think humor should belong in music; but sometimes you just need an escape from music when you're addicted to it as i am. This album, i never really understood, or really cared for. I listened to it recently and laughed and now i really like it and i can grasp it differently. It was funny when i read that this CD wasn't even ever supposed to be released. Someone found the master demos and then deewees (ratfe's core member) approved to make all the stuff into the album; some of the songs didn't even have titles so they just gave it a name that seemed fit. This album is really happy-go-lucky and shows that anyone can have fun with anything and anyone. Recommended to fans of: The Postal Service, The Get Up Kids, Converge, Electronicore, and Emocore. Overall Rating: 7.2/10
As Daylight Dies-I've had a real hard time accepting this release. I really hate mainstream music and music that is extremely popular. I bought this back in my metalcore phase with high hopes. I listened to it nonstop for weeks. Then some faggy kids started annoying me and i started getting bored of the repetitiveness of the CD, which compromised why i gave it to my sister. I was sick of hearing it. Recently, i decided, while actually looking for my Armor For Sleep CD i gave my sister, to take back the CD and give it another chance. I was surprised that i still remember most of the lyrics and the songs. It's quite enjoyable now that i've had a long time away from it. I just got to remember that too much of this band makes them = pop shit emocore. I advise to only listen to this on occasion, no more than a couple times a month. Recommended to fans of: Hatebreed, As I Lay Dying, Disturbed, All That Remains, shit metalcore/hard rock. Overall Rating: 7.6/10
Panopticon-I never liked isis that much; never gave them a chance until my bassist started liking them recently. I listened to his favorite songs and loved them. So i downloaded their whole library online and then went out to buy Panopticon. I can really consider this my favorite Atmospheric Sludge release as of now. The CD is a complexity of 5/4 and 3/4 time frames, alternating respectively; where in some songs i lose where i am. The CD shows the talent and beauty by the musicians. Recommended to fans of: Mountains Became Machines, Bossk, Irreversible, Pelican, Russian Circles, all key atmospheric sludge bands. Overall Rating: 10/10
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