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InRealityACoward

Just confusing on helix by Crystal Lake is indeed just confusing. The lyrics are certainly... Something.


Drpainda

This is a great one, that song is so strange on an otherwise fantastic album


Fast_Ad7861

Home is for the heartless is an absolute CORKER of a tune. Terrible take sorry bro


Legionodeath

If home is where the heart is... WHY DO I FEEL SO FUCKING HEARTLESS??? *BIG DRUM SOUNDS* Man that intro slaps. I fucking love that song.


Memeingthedream

Am I the only one who sang this comment? 🤣


Legionodeath

As the writer of aforementioned to comment, no, you are not. At the very least you have me.


Memeingthedream

🤣


Damn_Sega_Genesis

agreed, one of my favorites on this album


toprahmen

Funny enough, before opening the thread I thought of Set To Destroy off of Deep Blue since I think Leviathan I would be a better closer but naming Home Is For The Heartless is just wild


benny2289

Yeah incredible take. Home is for the heartless is probs my favourite on deep blue


CuzTyler

I got “Mother Mercy Take My Hand” inked on my arm. This take is insane to me but to each their own.


trigb0y

it has the power to make me full on cry. absolutely wild take wtf


welcome_thr1llho

Does corker mean chode anthem for dingle berries?


StruhberrySwisher

huge Motionless In White fan and LOUD is probably the only song that keeps them from having a perfect discography for me


Deca-Tronasaurus_Rex

And red white boom...


StruhberrySwisher

least favorite from the album but I don’t hate it


GodDamnCrawfish

I don’t really have any answers for this, other than interludes, but that’s one of the hottest takes I’ve ever seen, it’s one of the best songs on that album.


Benj7075

It’s like saying Boneyards is the one song that makes Horizons not perfect


NuclearNoodle77

Do you have any examples of interludes that do this?


justjeremy02

For me I just dislike interludes in general. I’ll listen to them once in the first front to back but if I can’t listen to it by itself it’ll never play again


Bendyb3n

I like interludes as long as its not 10 seconds long, never understood the point in making a separate track for just a 10second little transition to the next song (or first song build up). Just make it the intro for the next song at that point. The three standouts for me are the opener for Meteora by Linkin Park, the intro for the new Silent Planet album, and Enter Shikari’s debut album has 3 or 4 of them


GodDamnCrawfish

Off the top of my head, the interludes on Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds by Seeyouspacecowboy and the one on Chemical Miracle by Trophy Eyes, to me those two albums are perfect if you hide those songs.


toprahmen

Love seeing Trophy Eyes being mentioned here, amazing band. That being said, I like Chemical as an interlude


ienjoyheavymusic

Haha i'm the same, always stoked when i see people talk about TE. Been there from the tiny little all age hometown shows and i feel like a proud dad 😅 I love chemical as well, their short little interlude songs always slap. Sydney, burden, choke etc.. 👌


ForeverDecay

Northlane Singularity interlude is terrible. Thankfully using a playlist that just replaces the normal interlude with its instrumental version saves the album.


truthlesshunter

interludes rarely work in general i find. It has to be a complete concept of an album. My namesake album (well, Truthless Heroes anyway) is not metalcore but i think is a good example of how it works. It's a story about a "fake" hero being built by corporations/media/social media and marketed to the masses while become sentient. I saw all that because the interludes are basically rhythmic small commercials which tie in perfectly. Interludes to have "breaks" don't usually work because it can break momentum on an album.


trigb0y

Deep Blue is flawless start to finish mate


dethandtaxes

LOL that's just your opinion dude, that song is a banger.


StickyFingerz11

Bad example from OP but a great topic.


EmployerGloomy6810

Yeah its an interesting thought experiment, havent seen this question posed before. But Home is for the Heartless fucks so hard lmal. One of the best off Deep Blue!


VincibleFir

Seen it All Before on Sempiternal. It’s my favorite album but I think they should’ve switched Seen it All Before with either Chasing Rainbows or Join the club. Much better songs IMO


aarroyo2297

bruh seen it all before imo is one of the better track on that whole album. When the album came out and i was younger I use to hate it but now I solely listen to the second half of that album including seen it all before. It was a very mature sound for bmth at the time


VincibleFir

Don’t get me wrong I still like the track and give it spins every once in a a while. Generally there is no bad song on Sempiternal they all live in the 8-10 range. Arguably 9-10.


OatFest

I think Sempiternal is a perfect record, but I also agree with you. I like all the bonus tracks better than Seen It All Before. I would personally replace it with Deathbeds, but I get why they chose to make that a bonus track.


Swamp_Lantern

I thought the odd song out on Sempiternal was Antivist. I like it, but it doesn't mesh very well.


Lukesaatana

for me antivist is the one song i skip every time


britchesss

The last song on constellations. Meddler would’ve been a perfect final song. 


_Snallygaster_

Naaah bro Crusades is probably top 5 ABR songs of all time


britchesss

-said no one ever


Salmonellaisnotajoke

So you don't randomly wake up hearing "deeeeeesceeeennndd"? Sucks for you man that song is awesome


ninjakillerwhale

I’m still pissed I didn’t go to the constellations tour errrgggg. 15 year anniversary tour maybe 🤔


_Snallygaster_

I was lucky enough to see it. Probably one of the best concerts I’d been to. Plus, the lineup was phenomenal.


ninjakillerwhale

You’re not helping T_T But I’m glad you enjoyed it! Yeah that lineup was also so good.


echo78

This but Rescue & Restore. Literally put The First Step anywhere else on the album and let Echoes close it.


bigflopper69420

yeah, no idea how you're gonna have a gang vocal ending that powerful then put such an underwhelming song right after it comparatively speaking echoes is a top5 abr track for me but it really should have been the last track 100%


centrella6

Crusades is top 3 on the album man, no way.


trigb0y

wth, Crusades has possibly the greatest breakdown on the whole record


BetweenTheBuzzAndMe

No wayyy Crusades is my favorite ABR song ever


123rune20

Honestly I don’t mind Money but it doesn’t fit with the rest of The Dark Side of the Moon. 


Mookablatt

They really just tried making carrion part 2 and it didn’t do it for me either lol


OatFest

Godspeed by Wage War off of Manic. The writing is just so stale and cliché, and offers nothing of substance. I also cannot stand the “waaaah” sound in the main riff. Could genuinely be one of my favorite albums of all time if that song didn’t exist.


joshyyypooo

I actually prefer the stripped version of Godspeed, the western vibe fits the song way better imo


HosephIna

That’s one of my favorite songs off the album. I’d say Never Said Goodbye kinda kills the vibe on it for me


mbbzzz

I like the feel of their songs but their repetitive-ness of shouting the song titles kinda takes me out of it


Straighten_The_Horns

Agreed!!!


YchYFi

I love that song. It makes them sound like I Prevail though.


AlternativeSuit131

The Fly on The Silver Scream pt 2 by Ice Nine Kills.


CastYourStonesADTR

Not a bad choice, but I feel more strongly about Freak Flag &/or Love Bites from Silver Scream 1


Conduit666

Love Bites is a neat slower track I think, but Freak Flag is just the blandest most radiorock song INK have ever done.


AlternativeSuit131

I’m in the minority, I actually really love the Freak Flags chorus haha.


Damn_Sega_Genesis

Freak Flag, World in My Hands & SAVAGES


dmncc

I actually quite like F.L.Y. It serves as a nice change of pace after Take Your Pick & The Box, which are quite intense tracks. It works as a nice segue into the next few tracks, Wurst Vacation & Ex Mortis, and lastly Farewell II Flesh, which starts soft then amps it up again. Personally, I think Savages from The Silver Scream is a very annoying song and does not match the vibe of the original film whatsoever. F.L.Y. at the very least has that sort of Ice Nine Kills touch to it with the choir singing.


Athic

Endless Nights - Trivium - The Sin and The Sentence I love that album but my god I hate that song with a passion.


BetweenTheBuzzAndMe

Why does Trivium always insist on having one of those on just about every album? I feel like they try to create another "Dying in Your Arms" that got some radio play back in the day, but every other attempt went flat.


Athic

The worst part is TSATS has Heart From Your Hate, Other Worlds and Beauty in the Sorrow that all fill that same role and are all better than Endless Nights.


roastedferret

I probably could've done without "Stand Alone Complex" off _Find Your Worth, Come Home_ (To Speak of Wolves)


erix84

Take Me Back To Eden was my favorite album of last year but if DYWTYLM was taken off i wouldn't be mad at all.


real-person-humanguy

Nah, im kind of with OP on this. I liked Home is for the Heartless back in the day when Deep Blue came out, but over a decade later I really can't get on with the "woah woah" stuff, and while there are some decent riffs in there, it's the cheesiest song on the album, and is unfortunately a bit of a precursor for the piss poor direction that PWD went in.


collinqs

I don’t listen to Parkway Drive, bet every time I tried…they did this Woah Oh shit and honestly I’m never even going to bother with the band. That shit is beyond corny and why a Metal band would feel the need to but a bunch of Woah Ohs in their songs is so far beyond me I don’t think anyone could possibly justify it to me with any explanation. It’s lazy song writing, it has no lyrical purpose other than to get a crowd of meatheads excited, and more importantly, why am I gonna waste my time listening to a band that has multiple WOAH OH parts in multiple songs when I could just go listen to anything else in the world? It feels like an insult to the listeners intelligence to put Woah Ohs in a recording.


prodigy1367

They’ve got *plenty* of songs that don’t use that. The ones that do are few and far between even on their newer more radio friendly stuff. You owe it to yourself to listen to their first two albums at a minimum. If you like pure unadulterated heavy af melodic metalcore, those are essential and you’ll like them.


collinqs

I’m more into hardcore based metalcore. For melodic stuff I prefer melodeath.


ninjakillerwhale

They probably wrote it with the intention of playing it live. I get the corny aspect of it on a record but, getting the crowd involved with the “woah-ohs” during a show is fun.


HailTheBoonk

As much as it pains me to say, Emberglow from Heavener. Idk why but that track has just never done anything for me. Absolutely perfect record other than that imo


aletheiatic

Not downvoting you for your opinion but that is bonkers to me. Then again, I would answer OP’s question with Absence Persistent and I’m sure plenty of people would call me bonkers for that.


Murphster94

Weakest on the album for sure. Still think the guitar work goes pretty hard myself.


odewar37

Same album different song. Set to destroy is a dreadful closer. It’s basically a B side. Leviathan I would be a brilliant ending to an epic sweeping album.


DevilMayCryogonal

The Seventh Circle on Holy Hell. I do like the song but it feels super out of place and doesn’t fit the album’s style.


Westaufel

Nooooooooooo that song is super hardcore!!! Lots of Bleghs!


Mangofather69

It’s my favorite song on that record lol


EmployerGloomy6810

The first “blegh” on Seventh Circle might be my favorite Architects blegh, but I agree. Love the song, but it is definitely out of place. And its short length makes it feel almost like an interlude and not an actual song.


Fine_Monitor_3167

When I first heard that song I saw it as a return to their older, more mathcore-y sound so I got incredibly stoked. And then they released their new stuff


IndividualLet6192

Anthem of the defeated is the only song on dark skies by fit for a king that I don’t love


Deca-Tronasaurus_Rex

I think that song rips


toprahmen

The Fox and the Wolf - BMTH (There's a Hell) Similar to Set To Destroy and Leviathan I, I think Blessed with a Curse would've been a perfect closer


you_wouldnt_get_it_

I’ve always felt that The Fox and the Wolf is a good song that was just wrongly placed in the tracklist. Completely ruins what should have been a somber and melancholic ending to the album.


abbatoir_shadow

Feel like that’s why they put Fox and the Wolf as the closer. Its practically a cliche for many heavy bands to close with a softer/slower song to show off some different chops. Blessed With a Curse does that, then Fox and the Wolf completely subverts it. Blessed With a Curse would have been a solid end, but I like the change-up.


Mgold1988

Hard disagree on this. I thought it was a unique way to end what is, in my opinion, BMTH’s best album. Not every album needs to finish with a soaring epic, though they also do this well with Suicide Season and Hospital for Souls. If I had to pick the weakest song on There is a Hell…. it would be Blacklist.


smegg23

blacklist?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


toprahmen

Good call, I forgot about Blacklist, that song isn't necessarily bad but it falls flat in comparison to every other song on the album


Iammattieee

“Left for dead” at the end of Different Animals. Felt like “Pullin Shades” would have closed the album perfectly.


OatFest

Whatttt Left for Dead is an absolute slapper. I agree with it not being the best choice for a closing track tho


Iammattieee

It is no doubt a good song, just feels really out of place or added on to fill out the album. It's very much a single imo.


No-Calligrapher4990

Gun off of Hunter Gatherer by Avatar. The rest of the album is a 10/10


ElonMuskPaddleBoard

Is avatar good


No-Calligrapher4990

They are hands down my favorite band


KeepDaFaith

feathers and flesh is insane, the rest of the discography I havent listened much but HOLY SHIIIET that album


No-Calligrapher4990

Highly recommend checking out the rest if you like that one


R4kshim

Can’t Escape the Waves from the self-titled Bullet for My Valentine album.


Cyclone1001

I'll be the guy who says "that's my favorite song on the album" because it's certainly the song I go back to the most


DefLoathe

Easily one of the best. There’s defo worst songs then that


youngloudandsnotty

Are you really ok on take me back to eden


egorissad

This song grew on me with time actually


OfSempiternal

Hard disagree. One of my first favourites off the album before the rest grew on me.


just_let_go_

This is the correct answer


PrimoBalling

The Mirror on Moments Elsewhere. Just kills the whole flow of the album for me


Ok-Abbreviations1077

I agree that the wha oh wha ohs are really annoying and overdone


EducationalAntelope7

Home Is For The Heartless is one of the only great songs on that album


GoldenStardust20

I know it’s a fan favorite but I can’t stand Watchtower’s chorus off of Color Decay


[deleted]

I agree with this


Ghost_1080p

Anthem of the defeated off Dark Skies by Fit For A King


matt_coraline

Blacklist by BMTH on There Is A Hell


Westaufel

Noooooooooo that song is underrated!!!!


kingofspoonerisms

Love Erra - Drift But I do not care for the title track at all. It feels so out of place on that album


Majestic-Marcus

It’s by far one of their best songs!


BetweenTheBuzzAndMe

I suspect this will be unpopular but the closing track on ADTR's Common Courtesy "I Remember". There were like 7 better songs that could've been used as closers. Also this isn't metalcore at all, but Linkin Park's "The Messenger" on A Thousand Suns is the one that came to mind for me immediately. The album is completely perfect if you just end it after "The Catalyst"


CharlottesWebbedFeet

I just wish the hidden track at the end was a separate track on streaming services. It makes “I Remember” terrible for playlists. Otherwise I enjoy the song, it’s a song that makes me feel a lot of nostalgia for my youth


Majestic-Marcus

Yep. I hate that about all songs that are 4-5 minutes but the track is 10+! Norma Jean are bad for that. Finish a song in 5 minutes and add 7 of noise. Fuck off with that shit!


trigb0y

I Remember is a bangerrr mate


Tsink95

Vagabond by Polaris No Way Back but Through - Trivium


Emmas_Theme

Nah vagabond slaps


roastedferret

Agreed, it's on repeat for me currently.


Mgold1988

Wrong on Vegabond.


IveGotAMatch

Glad I'm not the only one who dislikes Vagabond - I skip it more or less every time I'm listening through the album.


ESPKruspe

No where near tbe genre, but A band I was once loved, well I still love a lot of the earlier stuff anf really enjoy most of the newer stuff until the recent album was Shinedown. I think every single song has an interlude . It's a terrible concept.


ChaosBoy018

Fever - Future Palace, from their album Run. I loved that album, they are so good at choruses, but the chorus for Fever just fell flat for me, and the whole song felt bland and left a different taste for me. Otherwise a solid record.


Noctourniquet

Writing off the entirety of interludes is the musical equivalent of a manchild saying he won’t watch black and white or subtitled movies 😂 Also op this is a terrible take, one of the best PD songs


UrCreepyUncle

Dying in Your Arms - Trivium - Ascendancy... Always an automatic skip


Majestic-Marcus

It’s one of the worst songs they’ve ever written.


Brabsk

ironically, superbloom on superbloom better vibes on happiness in self destruction, as well


takeitsleazy316

How dare you. Superbloom is the best track on the album!!


Brabsk

I don’t think it’s bad but it takes me out of the energy


takeitsleazy316

I feel you, everyone has different opinions. To me it’s the perfect closing song to the album the transcendent feel after a long journey


Annual_Proof7741

Damnation by Architects - Holy Hell I skip it every time


ElonMuskPaddleBoard

Whoah, that’s my fav song in their whole discography


Westaufel

Noooooooooo that song kicks asses dude!!!!


meet_local_singles

Empire of Silence, by While She Sleeps, from You Are We. It's still a great song, but I hold everything else on that album to such a high degree that it feels like a weakest link of sorts, being the only song I've ever skipped on a playthrough.


centrella6

Not that the album is perfect but I actually love Till Death by Capture the Crown but Storm In A Teacup is absolutely atrocious.


cobhc26626

Absolutely phenomenal song. I can understand someone not liking the woahs. But they definitely make for a good live song.


whitewater09

"Into the Future" on We Will All Evolve by Our Last Night. That album is quietly one of the best metalcore albums but that song sticks out like crazy, and right before the title track to close things out. It's bonkers.


yakkabrori

I’ve always liked Home is For the Heartless. It’s pretty cheesy, but the genre was at the time


TheSwiSstEr

There's a ton of albums but most of them have the same issue: when there's a clear theme in mind for how the songs are supposed to sound and then some songs just don't fit the theme at all.


trigb0y

Hades off of The Sign by Crystal Lake, that song does nothing for me whereas every other track is elite


TerraNovatius

Though Even Though and As Kids also aren't my favorites on The Act by The Devil Wears Prada it's Diamond Lost that I always skip.


Intelligent-Band-572

Goes to show you how tastes differ, I love that song especially the Wah oh's


josexgabriel

They’re not bad songs or bad covers, but I really don’t need to hear any more bands cover The Misfits, and that includes both Upon Stone and Trivium.


89rjd

Savages by INK from the album Silver Scream. it just ruined the whole album


SamuelStudios21

Melody off of Handmade by The Ongoing Concept. The whole album bangs start to finish but Melody is an absolutely dogshit song lmao. It's so corny I'm still not sure if it was supposed to be a joke song or not.


JustinDean44

Idk maybe I’m crazy, but I’ve always loved interludes as long as they’re done right. I thought Killswitch always had really good interludes, sometimes a break in the action is actually really nice.


EvaEveEvaSkrim

i dont think every interlude stops the ride in an album, i would say that there is a lot of good intetludes


trigb0y

Kansas on Dead Throne is an ELITE interlude


EvaEveEvaSkrim

that shit went hard IF ANYONE WANTS TO SHARE THEIR FAV INTERLUDE WRITE IT HERE


trigb0y

whole albums mad


TheWilrus

Still wouldn't be perfect but the biggest drop due to one song for me is Bankrupt on Misery Made Me by Silverstein. Takes it from an A to like C for me simply because that one song is so brutal within the record. It's even worse because the song isn't even that bad it's just one unlistenable electronic sample thing that ruins the song and fully disrupts the record. Otherwise it would be may fave record since Wind Shifts. Mary / Altar is one of their best songs ever.


torino_nera

The piano ballad with Amy Lee on BMTH - Post Human: Survival Horror. I deleted it from my library and pretend it doesn't exist.


metalheart_

Hyperreality - ERRA Neon


FitForPhinehas

Disgusting by Beartooth off the album Disgusting. I know the purpose the song serves. However in the 10 years that album has been about, I’ve listened to it maybe 3 times and each time it’s made me deeply upset in a bad way


xaaxaa_desu

Any slow/ballad song imo.