Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season (2008)
On this album, vocalist Oli Sykes & the Bring Me the Horizons mostly ditch deathcore for its generally more respected (and generally hotter) cousin that is metalcore, and aim for nothing short of musical theatrics with dramatic musical sections, and the occasional industrial tinge to their riffery. Vocalist Oli Sykes has also changed his vocals to mostly do away with screams and growling, and just yells his way through songs, like a more aggressive Henry Rollins with a bit more dried cum in his throat or something. Drink some water with salt in it! That always breaks it down for me!!
Turns out, when you start yelling instead of screaming and growling, your cringeworthy lyrics get a lot harder for the listener to tune out! So many songs on here sound like they were aiming for (and I can confirm that they succeeded at) to be MySpace status messages. It was like two separate sections of MySpace back in 2008: "Bring [Name] the Horizon" and "[Name]! at the Disco", almost like the Bloods and the Crips, but scarier.
That's not saying all is lost, the opening track "The Comedown" is an industrial-tinged banger, the most notable single "Chelsea Smile" has mostly survived the test of time, and the ironic "PARTY 'TIL YOU PASS OUT, DRINK 'TIL YOU'RE DEAD" nature of "Football Season is Over" are all bangers that'll get your girlfriend rawring in no time. Too bad about these other songs!! They ain't even bad, and sound like they'd be a good deal of fun live, but I'll be damned if they don't just bleed into each other with their "look how deep we are" interludes, disposable riffs, and "meme the living shit out of this" nature of the lyrics.
I'm kinda torn because those three songs I named are pretty good but the rest of these songs, even the post-rock influenced final/title track seem like they're actively out to give me a headache. Now that's not so nice of these lads, is it? Rude blokes, the lot of them. I hope they never have a fan give them the horizon they've been campaigning for all of these years, because if they don't even know what to do with some of these songs, who knows what they'd do with an entire horizon to themselves, short of pouring paint directly into it.
6/10
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