Over this past week, two prominent bands have announced their breakup: deathcore outfit As Blood Runs Black, and electronic post-hardcore outfit Abandon All Ships. Let’s talk about As Blood Runs Black first.

ABRB band entered the deathcore scene in 2006, with the release of their debut album, Allegiance. The album was an amazing piece of work, filled with powerful guitar riffs, unbelievable double bass drumming, and an extremely catchy vocal performance. Allegiance is one of the strongest deathcore debut performances I’ve ever heard, a close second to Neverbloom by Make Them Suffer. Continue reading →

Hello readers, welcome to LegionCore again! I’m sorry that I haven’t posted in while, because I’ve just been really busy with school life and personal life. However, in 2014, I hope to bring you guys even more great reviews and metal content. To start the year off, I have put together my top 10 list of best metal albums of the year, and I hope that you can find something that you haven’t heard of before and enjoy it. I mean, that’s what reviewing music is all about in the end. If you like my list, be sure to share it with your friends, as I hope that they too can discover great music through LegionCore. Without further delays, let’s see the best that 2013 had to offer for us. Have a great year, and I can’t wait to listen and review what 2014 will bring for us. Enjoy!

10. Bleed From Within-Uprising

Uprising by Bleed From Within begins our list, settling at the #10 spot. This young deathcore band has much talent to bring to the table, and this album really sets BFW from other deathcore bands. The guitar work on this album is terrific, and the band was able to keep the intensity up throughout the entire album. However, this album suffers from the repetitive aspect, and many tracks simply sound too familiar to each other that it takes several listens to truly grasp the feel of each song. If they can experiment a little bit more and not repeatedly use the same formula for each song, they have the potential to create some even better music. Continue reading →

After about two and a half years of complete silence from the famous alternative metal band, Breaking Benjamin, it looks like the band is back-or at least Ben Burnley is. For those of you who don’t know what happened to the band, Ben basically fired both his guitarist Fink and his bassist Klepaski because they had given permission for someone to remix their song, Blow me Away without asking Ben’s opinion first. After that, Ben filed a lawsuit against them, and that appeared to have been the end of BB’s great legacy. Continue reading →