Dead Poetic - (2002) Four Wall Blackmail

sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
length: 10 songs, 38.6 minutes
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01 Burgundy
02 The Corporate Enthusiast
03 A Green Desire
04 Four Wall Blackmail
05 August Winterman
06 Ollie Otson
07 Bliss Tearing Eyes
08 Stereochild
09 Arlington Eyes
10 Tell Myself Goodbye

I actually cannot believe this isn't already on here. Instant Classic. If you've already listened to Vices or New Medicines then check your expectations at the door. This is without doubt the best Dead Poetic record to date. Still loud, still explosive, but not the ear splitting melodies of Glass in the Trees. This album is gorgeous and heartfelt, beautiful universal lyrics and heavy screams over just fucking Solid drums from Burgandy to Tell Myself Goodbye. Honestly if August Winterman weren't such a wrist splitter it would still be in constant rotation on my ipod, and StereoChild is still fucking righteous. Re-educate.

sounds like: A Static Lullaby, Alexisonfire, The Receiving End of Sirens

Krunch.

A Static Lullaby - (2006) A Static Lullaby

sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
length: 12 songs, 46.38 minutes
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1. "Hang 'Em High" – 3:59
2. "Contagious" – 4:09
3. "Annexation of Puerto Rico" – 3:46
4. "The Art of Sharing Lovers" – 3:35
5. "The Collision" – 4:01
6. "Trigger Happy Tarantula" – 4:07
7. "Eager Cannibals" – 2:55
8. "Life in a Museum" – 3:56
9. "Stare at the Air" – 2:57
10. "Static Slumber Party" – 3:47
11. "Mechanical Heart" – 5:50
12. "Let Go" (bonus track) – 3:18

I fucking love this band. But i think alot of the reason i listen to them is because i want to sex their drummer, soo hard. He has admirably large... talent. Srsly though, good album, opening to Life In a Museum is epic. Mechanical Heart best song on the album hands down.

sounds like: Alexisonfire, Dead Poetic, Silverstein

Whoosh!

Dead Poetic - (2004) New Medicines

sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
length: 11 songs, 48.32 minutes
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1. "Taste the Red Hands" – 2:58
2. "The Dream Club Murders" – 3:49
3. "New Medicines" – 4:01
4. "Vanus Empty" – 3:55
5. "Bury the Difference" – 3:33
6. "Molotov" – 3:46
7. "Glass in the Trees" – 5:01
8. "Dimmer Light" – 4:06
9. "Hostages" – 3:22
10. "Modern Morbid Prophecies" – 3:52
11. "A Hoax to Live For" – 10:08 (Song Ends at 2:52)
12. "Zonshine" (Hidden- Starts at 4:21)

If you liked their first album then there is no promise from me that you'll enjoy this, and vise versa. However, i fucking loved their first press, but think this one is way better. Depressing lyrics and all. If you find you like this, you might try Vices their third. Not really my cup of tea, but watev.

sounds like: Circa Survive, Receiving End Of Sirens, A Static Lullaby

Ding.

Circa Survive - (2005) Juturna

sound: Indie/Post-Hardcore
length: 11 songs, 52.33 minutes
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1. "Holding Someone's Hair Back" – 3:22
2. "Act Appalled" – 3:20
3. "Wish Resign" – 4:14
4. "The Glorious Nosebleed" – 3:13
5. "In Fear and Faith" – 3:35
6. "The Great Golden Baby" – 4:11
7. "Stop the Fuckin' Car" – 4:22
8. "We're All Thieves" – 4:53
9. "Oh, Hello" – 2:36
10. "Always Getting What You Want" – 4:01
11. "Meet Me in Montauk" – 14:39 (includes hidden track)

I go back and forth with this album, I'm never sure if i think it's better then thier second album Let Go. Truthfully, i just fucking love their drummer, he's some serious shit. However, re-listening to it right now for maybe the 80 time, i definitely think it's worth listening to, and certainly owning. If you would like a work out, try playing Oh, Hello it will fucking tear apart your forearms.

sounds like: The Receiving End of Sirens, Hell is For Heroes, Strata, Dead Poetic

Ding!

Alexisonfire - (2002) Alexisonfire

sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
length: 11 songs, 42.34 minutes
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1. 44. Caliber Love Letter
2. Counterparts And Number Them
3. Adelleda
4. Daggers Through The Heart Of St. Angeles
5. Polaroids Of Polarbears
6. Water Wings
7. Where No One Knows Your Name
8. The Kennedy Curse
9. Jubella
10. Little Girls Pointing And Laughing
11. Pulmonary Archery

I figured i would post this for nostalgia if nothing else. It's one of the few records i fucking loved when i was in high school, that i still fucking love now. The guitars are like a glorious symphony, over or under Wade's obnoxious screams and Dallas' sad wails. I love this record with green eggs, under tree, all that shit. Besides Little Girls Pointing and Laughing might be the greatest song of all time.

sounds like: A Static Lullaby, Moneen, The Coterie, Dead Poetic, Circa Survive

Voip!

A Static Lullaby - (2008) Rattlesnake!

Sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
Length: 11 songs, 41.1 minutes
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1. "Rattlesnake!" – 3:34
2. "Bear Trap" – 3:46
3. "The Turn" – 3:23
4. "Scavenger" – 4:44
5. "The Prestige" – 4:06
6. "Aller au Diable" – 4:10
7. "Mourning Would Come" – 3:28
8. "The Pledge" – 3:20
9. "Under Water Knife Fight" – 3:14
10. "Everybody's Got a Lil' Fonz N' Em" – 4:08

Loud, demanding. Much more in the vein of their third album ASL. If you enjoyed that one, maybe you'll like this one. Listen to the Turn, if you don't find the drums rolling around in your head for a week, put down the record.

sounds like: Alexisonfire, The Coterie, Moneen, Dead Poetic

Yar!