quite how good this record is - to continue the Wage War comparison, it's almost like if all of the best songs off Blueprints and Deadweight were put together in one unrelenting moshfest of an album. This album is everything great metalcore should be: earworm riffs, massive (3/4)

very little in comparison. Generally I'm more of a music over lyrics kind of guy, but when the lyrics are as good as this it's a different matter - pretty much every song has at least a few lines that hit like a sledgehammer, right in the feels, as they deal with the (3/4)

everything from the sing-your-heart-out anthem Shelter to the crushing and epic album closer Witness The End. Metalcore doesn't get much better than this and, when this album came out in the summer, I fully expected it to finish as album of the year - but I reckoned (3/4)

right back to their best here, to the extent I'd say this is their best album outside of their untouchable run from Homesick to Common Courtesy. It has a real throwback vibe while still sounding modern and fresh, perfectly mixing the light and the heavy together in their (2/3)

singles. But when I came back to this album in the summer in a discography listen through, my brain had had time to accept the singles as being part of the album and suddenly, it all clicked. While it's not quite as good as the true elite of their albums (which number four (3/4)