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Underoath has gone through an impressive amount of change over the years, transitioning from deathcore into post-hardcore, losing Dallas and gaining Spencer, ultimately resulting in a variety of sounds. Lost in the Sound of Sepearation offers a considerable amount of change over Define the Great Line. Not only is there the customary difference in production, Spencer has completely altered the way he screams. His screams have become deeper, and more gutteral, resulting in a fresh sound the likes of which I haven't encountered before.

Track four, "Desolate Earth :: The End is Near", really puts Spencer's new style…

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With last years release, Pressure The Hinges, Haste the Day made a massive transition. They made a noticeable changed in style, thanks largely in part to their new vocalist, Stephen Keech. Dreamer takes these changes even further with an incredible amount of refinement over Pressure The Hinges. Dreamer outshines every single other release this year and, if not for Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone, would rank number one. I seriously doubt one could find a finer example of metalcore.

Dreamer is considerably heavier than Pressure The Hinges, and all of Haste the Day's other releases for that fact.…

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Its been four years since the release of Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses, and All Hope Is Gone was definitely worth the wait. The band expressed interest in making this their heaviest and most experimental album to date. That certainly brought high expectations, mostly of another Iowa and occasionally of another self-titled. As Corey stated of the meaning behind the album's title, that "All hope is gone of figuring the band out", everyone's expectations were either partially met or simply shattered. As a result, the album has gained its fair share of haters, but that is the…

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In most ways Death Magnetic delivers, but in others it doesn't. This is without a doubt their best effort in eighteen years (Simply put, since …And Justice for All), but at times, it hauntingly harkens back to Load/Reload. The vast improvements over St.Anger are enough to overlook this, but overall this is deeply disappointing. While the album certainly has it's share of promising tracks (Thrash-wise), it seems that once they went radio-friendly hard rock, they're gonna have a hell of time shaking that off, if they ever completely do.

Thrash is evident in tracks such as "All…