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I'M SCREAMING. now i'm whispering. SCREAM whisper. -all this for 53 minutes

Enter Shikari combines metalcore with trance. When I first listened to them live at the Eurosonic Festival in 2007, I was impressed. Now I think it sounds a bit dated and the synth/dance is too rare to make the differentiate from other post-hardcore bands.

Love this! The energy is amazing, and the variations between screaming and singing are just right.

Best live gig I ever saw was enter Shikari opening for jay z and linkin park. Absolutely phenomenal. I love synthy screamy rock, and I love this.

As this album started I wasn’t sure I was up for the screaming… and wasn’t sure I could listen to this… and I was all ready to dislike this. But it grew and grew on me and parts of this kept drawing me in. Jonny Sniper seemed particularly good, then the unexpectedly nice Adieu followed and I realized I was enjoying the album. Good stuff!

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Mothership, No sssweat, Return to energiser, Sorry you are not a winner, Ok time for plan b

I seen these guys back in 2005 at a tiny gig at the viewfield hotel in Arbroath, was one of my favourite gigs at that venue, it absolutely kicked off. Loved their demos and didn’t mind this album but kinda lost interest in the band and the music shortly after. I don’t think this album holds up well today, But thank you to who ever added this for a nice personal trip up memory lane. 4 stars for the 2005 gig.

Post-hardcore, trance, metalcore, electronicore. Ni fu ni fa.

Modern alternative pop punk hangover with some cool synths

Some good metal 4 3

Pretty Good, didn't blow my mind though

Love the album art. I really want to love the album. But it sounds dated and, I hate to say it, predictable, which maybe is too harsh for such genre spanning work. There are elements which are great, like the synth element scrabbling around in the background, a nice contrast to the heavier guitar work. But overall it just didn't win me over.

Who knew all it took for me to hate screamo more was an English accent. Generally I didnt hate this (well I hated the more metalcore parts some) but eh. Wierd tonal shifts throughout that didn't really feel coherent.

Great energy, but just not my thing.

A great era, even if wasn't a huge fan of this band.

Not bad for this style, but I feel like there’s a lot of essential albums that should be included first. I guess I’m not the right person to make the criticism though!

What a throwback. I haven’t properly listened to Enter Shikari in a long time but they’re a lot of fun - combining trance with metalcore to make this really unique and hyperactive brand of electronic heaviness that takes essentially the same approach as nu-metal but is stylistically very distinct. It has the scrappy energy of a debut by a group of guys in their late teens and early 20s and naturally doesn’t have the focus and cohesion of later and more mature albums like A Flash Flood of Colour, but what it lacks in polish it makes up for in promise It’s also a rare rear-heavy album - while songs like Mothership and No sssweat shine brightly on the first half, Sorry You’re Not a Winner is in a league of its own as it veers from breakdowns to breakbeats with its uniquely danceable aggression. And just when it seems like the album has peaked, Adieu comes out of nowhere, a genuinely beautiful and anthemic track that somehow doesn’t feel out of place and shows the breadth of what these guys are capable of It’s probably not their best album, and some bits have aged badly. Rou’s screams are a bit choppy in places and some of the tracks in the first half rely on a lot of the same tricks to diminishing returns. But when it works, it really really works

No thanks. 2 stars.

Never quite understood this subgenre of metal, the technical breakdowns and screaming butting up against extended melodic sections and deeply passionate lyricism. Kind of feels like water and oil to me, the LP not really gelling into any kind of cohesive artistic product or statement in the course of its runtime

An alright hardcore emo rock album. It started out pretty strong and aggressive with the screaming but as it went on it mixed in normal vocals to where it was tolerable. If they stuck with the style in the latter half this would’ve been an ok album but it was not something I’d come back to. 4.4/10

Suck my balls

This was a bit of a struggle. 2/5.

At the turn of the millennium, post-hardcore had seen a shift into the likes of emo stylings that would keep things fresh. Further, more progressive approaches to post-hardcore songwriting would come to define a new sound for the genre. Pieces of each culminate in the final ingredient of post-y2k post-hardcore: electronica. Enter Enter Shikari (lol), who helped to pioneer the relatively niche subgenre of electronicore by employing a liberal use of trance synthesizers in their other metalcore-style of post-hardcore. The result is inventive-yet-underwhelming. Lacks a lot of hard-hitting moments that would otherwise define a post-hc record. The only instance that comes to mind is the into to Sorry You're Not A Winner, which loses steam by the time it gets to the chorus. I will say the last three three tracks do a nice fake-out with the Adieu sounding like it would close the album before doing the ACTUAL final songs. Haha nice. CONTENDER FOR THE LIST: Electronicore is a bit too niche to deserve a spot on the list but if it were 2002 albums? Sure why not.

So, I've concluded that I really can't deal with the screaming. But when you set that aside and just listen to the music, there's not really much substance to found here at all.

Quiet loud metal core with synths. Sorry I just find it unlistenable.

Absolutely terrible. For incels and thirteen year old boys only.

This aged like milk. Anyone who wants to discover great metalcore / post-hardcore acts infusing electronic elements into their compositions should try to listen to early Genghis Tron or The Armed first. And the production values on this thing are simply horrible (bad dynamics on the mix, thin-sounding drums and backing vocals...). I don't know what's the most appalling thing here... Bad taste or bad ear? I've just learnt through one of the reviews in this section that Enter Shikari once opened for Linkin Park. That might explain a few things... Ironically, that sort of gig didn't bring them the expected level of fame the band probably hoped for. It warranted them a place on this users' list, though. Better than nothing, I guess. 1/5 for the artistry and purposes of this list of essential albums. 5/10 for more general purposes (4/4 for the musicianship, 0/1 for the production values + 1/5 for the artistry). Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 33 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 42 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 85 (including this one) ---- Émile, quelques récentes réponses au dessus... Je me suis retrouvé à devoir écrire une chronique non prévue au départ pour le site, en plus de la traduction de mon interview. D'où le fait que les nouvelles réponses se font attendre. Sorry ! J'espère que tu profites bien de ton été...