Relationship Of Command

I can remember the first time I heard "One Armed Scissor" by At the Drive-in, it was a defining moment remembering me that rock is still not dead yet. The dynamic shift, energy and aggression give me the goosebumps every time. The rest of the songs on Relationship of Command are pretty good too. Not all are as straightforward and dynamic as "One Armed Scissor", but it's post-hardcore with some prog mixed into it. One of my favorite albums of the 2000s.

Musical equivalent of getting shot out of a cannon straight into a concrete wall. I was gonna say it's "one of the best post-hardcore albums of all time", but that implies there's a better one somewhere out there.

You’ll are depressed recommending this much emo recently

Post Hardcore is one of my least liked Genres but my initial thought was "it sounds like Mars Volta" and further investigation proved why. It's actually pretty good and mixes up more than just screaming and thrash. I liked it.

The most insane, artistic guitar-driven LP of the aughts and it's not even close. The sheer musical expression on this math-rock meets post-hardcore project has yet to be topped by any incarnation of ATDI/Mars Volta since – the band operates (and sounds like) a broken machine, a metal cacophony that still manages to squeeze melodic beauty from the most discordant rock possible. An all-out collective panic attack where every instrumental is world-class, the entire band able to pivot on a dime from chaos into calm and vice versa. I've revisited this LP several times in the past decade and find new technicalities and layers to dive into every time. Absolute triumph of the genre and a persistent reminder of how fucking insane rock can be instrumentally when pushed to the limit. 100% deserves to be on the official list and could eat most of the main 1001 for breakfast easy.

Influential post-hardcore

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Pattern against use, One armed scissor, Rolodex propaganda

Almost definitive. I've tried and while I understand it, I don't feel it.

It's maybe too long to really stick with me for its full length, but it's an impressive hardcore from the early emo days.

First impression was that this sounded like a bunch of other things but on further research it seemed more likely an issue of a bunch of later things sounding like this. A big part of their sound is something I feel like more or less contemporary band Rage Against the Machine became more well known for. But there's more going on here, and all to its benefit. Not my favorite genre but this was very good.

Interesting genre here… felt a bit like it was somewhere between punk and hard rock. It was pretty good.

When you listen to this album it gives that sound of familiarity that is hard to place. A bit before it’s time with a 2000 release. These guys ended up splitting up and some were part of Mars Volta where you can get a sense of how later 00s sound derived from this. This isn’t a diamond in the rough but it’s still a good hard alternative rock album if that’s your jam. 6.8/10

This definitely sounds like the year it’s from.

Y2K American Post-Hardcore, which is an interesting combination of time, genre, and place. Post-hardcore's *really* not a genre that I care for (and jesus goddamn the people here love adding it to the list), but thankfully this one's making more interesting moves than most of the others that have been sent in. It was very affirming to check the wiki and learn that some of the members would go on to form The Mars Volta—it's very proggy, and I thought I recognized the singer's voice, but he's doing a completely different (worse) style on here.

Post-hardcore. Ni fu ni fa.

It's some alt rock that goes hard, baby!!