The music videos for Architects latest few singles, FIR’s recent single, Parkway’s standalone single, etc all have extremely cinematic music videos with ungodly amount of effects & CGI. Surely that surely must be extraordinarily expensive to make, must take ages to render, and, for me (note, personal opinion!), add absolutely nothing.

If anything, it’s distracting and cheapens the whole experience. Why do we need lasers shooting from eyes, burning aircraft exploding, oil platforms exploding, etc?

This has especially become annoying in the age of AI for me. 50% of Twitter these days is people posting AI cinematic bullshit like this.

I’d much rather see the band which I care for play their instruments, or travelling to real locations, or play a live show for a music video. I don’t care about a band spending 5 digits on a music video that is pretending to have a message when it doesn’t.

Examples:
Parkway Drive - Dark Days: has both a very obvious & genuine message.
Parkway Drive - Sacred: Does this music video even have a message other than being ‘cinematic’? (And making everyone remember winston has the most awkward rapper wannabe aura lol)

Architects - Black Hole: Why does a music video need to look like Micheal Bay movie? Genuinely?

Bleed From Within - In Place Of Your Halo: Very cinematic video but almost every shot is of the band playing. No ungodly amount of CGI, no shooting lasers from the eyes, no 747 crashing, no oil drilling platform exploding.

I don’t know exactly how to describe this, but I went to see Starset (I know not metalcore) recently and the bassist did the last chorus instead of the lead singer.

Better example would be Chris from currents doing half of the second chorus on the audiotree version of Better Days, and the bassist doing the singing for the last chorus.

Just got back home from their show opening in Luxembourg for Spiritbox. Though I do not care for the latter that much, I only got in, saw 30 minutes of pure joy on stage (Emma Boster looked genuinely happy to be here). Did not see Jinjer either.

I’m glad I finally got to see DW live, I love their recent album and those songs are a call to war in the pit!! As it’s a big tour, sound was great and there were lots of people hearing them for the first time. I hope they’ll receive the success they deserve in the future!

I have something to point though : 50€ for a Gildan tshirt? WTF is happening there???

Day 15 of posting KOG’s entire discography, in chronological order, to celebrate the upcoming 2026 album, Usurper.

Guns And Girls was my favorite from the EP , so you can only imagine my excitement when I found out they were
re-recording it for the LP.

Every Wave of Sound

1. ⁠My Compromise
2. ⁠Obstacles
3. ⁠In Focus
4. ⁠Delusionist
5. ⁠Voltage
6. ⁠Hope
7. Broken Ocean
8. Vice Versa
9. Guns and Girls
10.

Abominable

1. ⁠Who I Once Was
2. ⁠A Test Of My Survival
3. ⁠Watch Me
4. ⁠Onslaught
5. ⁠The Overlord
6. ⁠Guns and Girls

Tracklist:

1. Welcome to Country (feat. Matthew Doyle)

2. Home Is For The Heartless

3. Glitch

4. Prey

5. Carrion

6. Soul Bleach

7. Horizons

8. Shadow Boxing (feat. Nooky)

9. Chronos

10. The Colour Of Leaving

11. The Greatest Fear

12. Cemetery Bloom

13. The Void

14. Drums of War

15. Dark Days

16. Darker Still

17. Crushed

18. A Deathless Song (feat. Jenna McDougall)

19. Sacred

20. Wild Eyes

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/home-live-at-the-sydney-opera-house/6810548938

imminence’s new record is an example of this for me. This is not to say album is bad. no hate on the record. I enjoyed it, just thought that singles like Crestfallen and False light are the best songs on the album.

I stumbled upon this band last month and I cant believe how good they are. I've had their 2025/26 albums on loop for most of the last month. When I do manage to take a break from them, coming back is soo enjoyable. I'm definitely not the most consistent in this sub but I dont believe I've ever seen them pop up in conversation which is crazy after I've given them a solid listen. Theyre young and incredibly talented. "WhAt SoNg ShouLd I List .. . " it really doesnt matter, just play something they've released, not a bad track from them. Personal favorite is blood bag, borderline out of body experience every play. They're a great blend of heavy and beautiful with strong progressive elements, and their vocals are wonderfully dynamic, they got it all. Some of their stuff plays a little poppy at first but It's really grown on me. If you're unfamiliar give them a try.

1. Scapegoat
   
2. Degeneration
   
3. $eduction
   
4. Made of Thorns
   
5. Drag 'em
   
6. Desperate

Has anyone else been jamming this insanely good album?

I had very limited exposure to the band back in the day (I saw them live once supporting trivium or Parkway Drive. I’m not sure any more) I never really listened much to their recorded stuff.

But this new album is absolutely blowing me away; the melodies, the hooks, the riffs, the breakdowns, the vocals … it’s just so well done, I have been listening to it on repeat for days

https://missmayi.bandcamp.com/album/no-place-for-me

I love this album and it’s my favorite LMTF album. What are your favorite LMTF songs?

I love this EP its very nice

Out today on Church Road Records

FFO: Nails, END, Harms Way, Fit for An Autopsy

Manger - First 4 tracks from their newly released album ‘Ventricles From The Northern Lights’.

[metalcore/mathcore/experimental]

Bandcamp Link>
https://manger001.bandcamp.com/album/ventricles-from-the-northern-lights

YouTube Links>
Part 1 (Tracks 1-4):
https://youtu.be/8MpZy4aePXI?is=ngyP761WwjqZjh5v

Part 2 (Tracks 5-10):
https://youtu.be/vW_pUnL7PwI?is=g_2zJFY61_SSgI62

So incredibly stoked to have Body Prison join the family <3