Animals As Leaders:The Joy Of Motion

AAL's new album is finally out on iTunes, PlayStore and Spotify...and bunch of our stores I'd guess Fye or Best Buy. Not sure if Hot Topic sells any metal, mostly FIR, BvB, Post-Hardcore etc, at least in my stores..anyway. It's Out, It's Amazing, It's Technical, It's Djent, It's Funky, It's Groovy, it's everything you'd expect from AAL and more. I personally feel like this album has so much more soul then the last album, my favorite song so far would be Para Mexer or Physical Education, the whole album is freaking great, but I find myself repeating those two songs over and over. I don't have time for a full review or anything along those lines, but this album is gold, you won't regret it. If you aren't listening to AAL already, get on it, these guys are sick. Tosin and Javier are totally geniuses. Also Check Out Metis! Songs below, enjoy.~

Elenora: Said The Sapling To The Sun

I haven't covered Elenora, here, and I'm not sure why. So I'll do it now: Elenora is a 6 piece Melodic Hardcore band, and they're pretty good in this genre if you ask me. These guys come from Oregon. Like any Melodic Hardcore Band, these have some pretty catchy melodies, and the hardcore parts and hardcore, and to be honest, the screams on their newest screams would probably some of the worst I've ever heard if it didn't fit with the clean vocalist so well. The cleans are damn good, they're powerful, they have emotion and in my opinion, they aren't to high or anything like that. The vocals in this band are great. The instruments are what you'd expect from a band in this genre, Elenora pulls it off well, they also add keyboard intros and in other parts of their songs for extra melody and emotion. I Elenora does this well. I really feel like keyboards add a LOT of emotion to songs, it really help set a certain mood with the rest of the instruments if done right. That doesn't go without saying the usual Instruments aren't fully capable of doing that themselves. I wanna go on about the song, but I don't feel like it anymore. It's an improvement for the band,  Check it out below. 

Rise Records:Dropped The Color Morale?

So last week I was scrolling through facebook and Rise Records posted that Miss May I was releasing a new album soon and hinted at a new signing, that's good news...but then I scrolled down to see what everyone's guesses were on which band was recording a new album. People were guessing at Crown The Empire and The Color Morale...then Rise commented "TCM isn't with us anymore" or something along those lines. I was pretty shocked at that. I always thought of TCM as a VERY underrated band. I mean, they make great music, they're great live, they have a wonderful message, which is what makes them my favorite Hardcore Band,  ever, the lyrics, everything. I guess maybe they didn't have enough album sells? Sucks. I could go on a whole rant about how stupid that is, but it doesn't matter. TCM is on the new Punk Goes 90's album, I'm looking forward to the track. I wish them luck, I'd hate for them to stop making music and spreading their message. The New Miss May I's song is pretty decent, video below.