Roadrunner lost the touch...

I'm enjoying this actually. It's the generic side of Motionless In White (the one not influened by Marilyn Manson), but the smoothest and best executed they have ever done it. The guitar tone and production are great, reminds me a lot of Soilwork.

It's generic modern metalcore however, so know what you're getting.

(Also, WTF is with Roadrunner in recent times? They're losing massive names left and right and seem to pick random bands from a hat to replace them. MiW was a perfect fit for Fearless records and Roadrunner has been super all over the place.)

EDIT: I love how after their first news post literally all their albums dropped in rating by at least 0.5. Someone gave all their releases 1/10s. Yes, one of those people.

Written by Overrwatcher on 26.06.2016 at 16:14


EDIT: I love how after their first news post literally all their albums dropped in rating by at least 0.5. Someone gave all their releases 1/10s. Yes, one of those people.

Same thing happen to Hocico lately.

Written by FYA on 03.07.2016 at 23:28

Written by Overrwatcher on 26.06.2016 at 16:14


EDIT: I love how after their first news post literally all their albums dropped in rating by at least 0.5. Someone gave all their releases 1/10s. Yes, one of those people.

Same thing happen to Hocico lately.

The worst part is that it's always the same people who take one band they mildly dislike and give extremely low ratings to literally their entire discography. Demos, compilations, singles, you name it. That's how you know they haven't even listened to it.

It's okay to not like a band. It's okay to give a 1/10 if an album is really really genuinely unlistenably awful (like Lulu or arguably We Rule The Night). But carpet bombing 1's on a band that is just a little too generic or in a hated genre is not cool. If the band is popular and has a lot of votes, it makes no difference. If the band is invisible and doesn't have very many votes, it makes the band look bad (like here, Hocico, etc) because they're having vote manipulation work against them.

Man, I'm tempted to write a rant about 1/10s and how stupid they are.

Written by Overrwatcher on 04.07.2016 at 09:02


Man, I'm tempted to write a rant about 1/10s and how stupid they are.

Written by FYA on 04.07.2016 at 10:35

Written by Overrwatcher on 04.07.2016 at 09:02


Man, I'm tempted to write a rant about 1/10s and how stupid they are.

Actually, I just found an article that deals exactly with the topic. To piggyback off this, 1 is Lulu quality. You can't rate music objectively, but if you could, they would be the most unlistenable ones. I actually don't like 80's metal in general, but that doesn't mean I'm going to give it 1s. It's not offensively bad. The musicianship is solid, and if forced to listen to it, I could. I just find it boring as hell and prefer to listen to other stuff. As a result I don't even rate it, and even if I did then it would be a 5-6 at the very least. I've given higher scores to worse albums (looking at The Unspoken King so even that feels a bit low, but it accurately represents my enjoyment. There is absolutely no way in hell Paranoid, as much as I hate it, is anywhere near a 1. Unlike Lulu, it at least has an actual song structure, some instrumental work, and an actual mood to it. And also was a massively influential album. Unlike We Rule The Night, it doesn't have the absolute worst songwriting that makes you frantically spam the exit button to turn that godawful garbage off. It's just boring. Same concept with the guy who gave all the Motionless In White releases a 1. At the very worst it's a 4/10 if you utterly can't stand Risecore. At least they can play their instruments and Chris is a capable vocalist, and you would turn it off because it's dull or you don't like the style, not because it's OH MY GOD bad.

That article should be more prevalent on the site.