Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal

This has been leaked on The Pirate Bay. I’m not allowed to tell you that all you have to do is type in bring me the horizon and it’s on the top. ;)

Well, after listening to this album about 20 times, I have to lay down my honest opinion: disappointment. I have been talking about how this album was going to be THE album of 2013, hands down— how it was going to be even more cutting edge than There Is A Hell, which is tremendous. I expected this one to be that album, pushed a progressed a bit further— which would be godlike. When I heard “Shadow Moses” the first time, I about shat; my prediction that it was going to be destructive was only reinforced. And more weeks passed, I wore that song and badass video out. If that was an indication of the rest of the album, I was in for a treat. Waiting… patience. Days are slow, time crawls…

Fast forward to the first listen through… Shadow Moses— definitely NOT representative of that album as a whole. I understand why that one was chosen as the 1st single— it’s probably the best on there. As I heard each track, I got a little more let down. Don’t get me wrong… there are no “bad” songs on there— but there are no mind-blowing ones, either. So going into this I had high hopes; it wasn’t a self-fulfilling prophecy of I expected it to be a disappointment… just the opposite.

Did I have TOO GREAT of an expectation of it? No, I don’t think so, as I was thoroughly stoked with Shadow Moses upon hearing it. Had the rest of the CD lived up to that song, it would have been untouchable.

I did give it a fair chance thus far. I already have the lyrics memorized, I’ve repeated it so many times. Btw, me and another person have been posting the album lyrics as we get time, as of now about half the songs are up. I’ll add the rest tomorrow probably. Some songs are obviously tougher than others to transcribe, but I don’t post garbage. I rehash the words until I’m sure of them (or at least 99%, best I can decipher). So that takes time. I posted them to (and I ONLY use/post to) lyrics . wikia . com, because they’re peer reviewed and open to edit if you know something is wrong. Example: I edited the line in The House of Wolves to correct it. I changed it to “What you call faith, I call a sorry excuse” from what was there— “Why you call faith, a cold sorry excuse”.

See, peer review is a good thing! ;)

And same song, I corrected “I bowed for your king when he chose himself”… to the real line, which is “I’ll bow for your king when he shows himself”…

Point is, I don’t edit lines unless I know they’re wrong and what I have is legit. If nobody else has posted a song, I’ll put up a 99% version, my best, again— and if anyone KNOWS a line is wrong, then they should do as I did in those examples and fix it up. But I can’t stand when people replace CORRECT lyrics with wrong ones… Ridiculous. But— there is redemption in that one of the people looking at them can fix or revert them and it quickly corrects itself. ;)

I say that to say this: the lyrics are there, or will be fully by tomorrow… if you’re looking for them— that’s the only place to go. These other sites just steal incorrect garbage lyrics from all of the others— propagating horrendous, identical transcriptions across every major lyrics site out there. It’s sickening. And that’s why I don’t use about other site— there’s no quality control. I’m not affiliated with lyrics wikia at all, I just contribute there very regularly and support it because of its higher integrity of content.

Or you can go to the other 100 sites and get “THIS IS SEMI-ETERNAL! Can you see into your eyes you’re live like you’re going to die! Again and again, over and over! You can run but you can’t hide!”

Sht’s absurd. Sometimes I wonder if the people who wrote these things up even speak English, or if they’re a student in English 102 in some far away country. Or I wonder if they were even listening to the same song I was. I’m not claiming I’m perfect, but I have self-imposed standards and a duty to at least TRY PRETTY HARD. LOL. Fkn A.

So returning from a very long and out of place rant/tangent (rantangent?), I’ll say that I really, honestly wanna dig the hell out of SEMPITERNAL. I wanted it to destroy the mundane and unremarkable stuff being released every week. I just— I only came once, and that was upon seeing the leak was legit. I expected to be going into orgasmic shock/uncontrollable seizures from popping off nut after nut as I listened to this album. It just fell a bit short. I still think it’s good and will probably still be the best thing out this year— too bad it wasn’t what *I* had envisioned. But maybe it’s yet to grow on me some more. I’m definitely still buying the deluxe! No doubts there. Well worth my money.

In closing— I can’t help but ask… what happened to all those news stories saying “Lights” would be back again on this one? I don’t recall hearing any female vocals in general… I really enjoyed her parts on the last one… she gave the songs an even better groove— definitely an asset to TIAH… anyone know what happened? I was looking forward to at least 1-2 songs with her collaborating.

All in all, remember… this is all just personal opinion, and not objective reality. Just laying my feelings down about it as well. We all have a right to our own opinion. No need to flame me about my perspective. Obviously I’m not trashing the band and I hope they have great success with the album, clearly they worked hard— and BMTH’s absolute worst still ranks high above a lot of others’ absolute best. That’s saying a great deal.

So constructive replies if any, and get your arses over to the lyrics site and help out if you can decipher some tough lines… 200 ears are better than 2. Or if you just need a decent version of them. Either way, I hope everyone enjoys the CD and make sure you do the right thing and buy the album when it comes out if you dig it, so the band members can get their 3-4¢ cut out of the sale, LOL. Still, ¢ add up to $— (true story, learned it in college… economics.) Ah, college… Economics, heavy metal, and sexually curious coeds. Of those, only metal stuck around for the long haul. Music— the greatest love most of us will ever find in life… I feel bad for deaf people. What would your life be like without (good) music?!

That would suck an industrial-sized can of Vienna sausages… maybe even two or three!

their album is actually being pushed up to April 1st, for anyone who actually wants to buy it! I would’ve had it not been semi-trash, but oh well, i’m still gonna see them on warped tour. I hope they play old stuff.

I feel bad for Oli because the FULL album was leaked ALL of YouTube. Although, they keep getting deleted for copyright, they keep posting it all over so.. They may not be making much money off this album. But, even though I’ve heard most of it already, I’ve heard enough to still want to buy the album. Woo!

hands down, Sempiternal is the best Linkin Park album to date.

I have the album… It is freaking AWESOME.

Mp3 Crank… That’s all I’m saying ;)

I felt this album is the best they’ve done since Suicide Season (sorry for my opinion.) Seriously. I didn’t have to hear breakdowns every single song. I also heard no high screams. it’s an actual legit album and even crazier, it’s BMTH.

Best BMTH CD yet!

This album is so good. Took a little bit to grow on me because it’s quite a change from their last album. Love it though, Go To Hell, For Heaven’s Sake has been stuck in my head for days…

Sempiternal is the best Linkin Park album to date.+1

It’s alright, i prefer “There is a hell..” though

My album of the year thus far.