Mirrors

Misery Signals in their young days. Lots of hardcore aspects. It's a classic, even though right now some would consider it outdated. I already heard it plenty of times, but I needed the physical copy.

These guys deliver. Some of the most thought out, we'll put together ambient and melodic metal you'll hear in your life. Amazing people with amazing potential put together an album for the ages. Get it. You will not be disappointed!!!!

Just like it

The cd's condition is good.Shame for a little sign on the backside of the package.Misery signals are actually one of the best band around the world, with a powerfull mix of fusion and meshuggah glued by a nice songwritingthis is my favourite album...i guess!=)

Since their inception, Misery Signals have been one of the most talented up and coming bands in the heavy music scene. Even with only two official albums and an ep under their belts (although the members have scraped their teeth in such revered bands as 7 Angels 7 Plagues and Compromise), one listen to any material these guys have put forth is enough to make any doubter an instant believer. Granted they are lumped in with a fairly stagnant and overbearing scene at the moment, the music would be just as good even if metalcore weren't the 'in' thing."Face Yourself" breaks down the doors, opening with a gigantic wall of crushing sound. Notice new vocalist Karl Schubach's presence on the mic immediately. And this guy was just an open audition? A guitar player by trade you say? Hard to believe after his punishing screams ring up and down your body. But where most bands in metalcore fail by sub-coming to the urge of throwing in a power-filled emo chorus or outrageously bland lyrical topics, Misery Signals shines. The lyrics are powerful and going with the theme of the record, they are much about self-reflection and the image we project on our peers in society, and how we inevitably love to believe we are fine when we are really falling apart.Don't think the magnificent musicianship of the last record has been lost a bit, because it hasn't. Misery Signals is able to maitain an umcomprisingly heavy atmosphere while stringing ambient and melodic breaks throughout almost every song. Ryan Morgan and Stu Ross still unleash manically heavy riffs and also the calmer sections that many other bands don't even dare attempt, and Kyle Johnson and Braden Morgan are still more than capable of filling in the complex and unrelenting rhythms that Misery Signals are known for. While overall "Mirrors" probably isn't particularly as heavy as its predecessor "Of Malice and the Magnum Heart", it is definitely more ambitious and stable at moments. The record seems to begin with an onslaught ("Face Yourself", "The Failsafe" and "Post Collapse), then slowly drift into a somewhat more sudbued section ("Migrate", "One Day I'll Stay Home" and "Something Was Always Missing, But It Never Was You") before eventually ending in fury just as it began."Mirrors" is just another example of how Misery Signals continue to prove they are one of the most competent bands to get lumped in with the metalcore scene. Although they are obviously light years ahead of most of the bands they are associated with, there's an obvious reason they've gotten the tag. If you like metal or hardcore that is heavy, intelligent, and yet extremely atmospheric and melodic, you need to jump on the Misery Signals bandwagon immediately. This is already easily one of 2006's best offerings.

Almost all metalcore bands that want to be noticed or stay relevant nowadays probably had to abandon the genre's cookie cutter verse-chorus-breakdown song structure long ago, and come up with something fairly new or innovative to bring to the table, instead. Misery Signals does not exactly reinvent the genre, and they probably won't interest anybody who isn't already a fan of it, but they aren't content to simply conform and be just one of the crowd, either -- this is a band with a face! Thus, the Wisconsin-based quintet should have no problem turning many listeners' heads and becoming a really huge band. In fact, we could even be looking at heavy music's next big thing!Misery Signal's second album, 2006's "Mirrors," transcends the mere "metalcore" label in that it fuses together crushing heaviness with bright melodies, odd time signatures, and very tight and technical musicianship. And unlike a lot of melodic metalcore, "Mirrors" is, first and foremost, a heavy album. It punishes the listener's ear drums relentlessly and from all angles, with pummeling, non-traditional rhythms, pounding drums, solid bass work, big, foundation-shaking breakdowns, and an impeccable, airtight interplay between the two guitarists' equally meaty, bludgeoning riffs. New singer, Karl Schubach, (who, by the way, was selected via a myspace competition after previous frontman Jesse Zaraska left the fold) is the band's biggest cliche, and his very limited and one-dimensional vocal range could be the only thing holding Misery Signals back from international greatness. In his defense, though, his beefy, full-bodied bellows (which are influenced squarely by modern day hardcore acts) do have a lot of force, power, and visceral impact, and they help to give the album its decisively edgy sound and in-your-face attitude. Overall, "Mirrors" sounds like a mix of Intronaut, Meshuggah, Hatebreed and/or Terror, and Zao, and the odd Converge influence is tossed in for good measure.With some viscous double bass thunder, chunky, resonating power chords, livid, throat-ripping yells of "You brought this on yourself!", and a ginormous, brutally booming wall of sound, opener "Face Yourself" confidently storms through your speakers and crushes you like a bug as soon as you hit the "PLAY" button. "Reference Lost" and "Sword Of Eyes," which evoke the sound of a boulder lumbering down a mountainside, are the other heaviest tracks on offer here. Elsewhere, several of the songs --i.e. "The Failsafe," "Migrate" (which features exceptional bass playing by Kyle Johnson), and "Something Was Always Missing, But It Was Never You" (to name just a few) -- feature sections of pretty, soothing, lightly-picked strings, thus creating an excellent juxtaposition between them and their muscular, dissonant, almost skull-crushing surroundings.Finally, there are two main highlight tracks from a melodic standpoint: "One Day I'll Stay Home" and "An Offering To The Insatiable Sons Of God (Butcher)." The former boasts the album's strongest and most infectious hook when Fall Out Boy singer, Patrick Stump, lends a bit of sweet, infectiously tuneful crooning to the chorus, giving the track a refreshingly laid-back and almost emo-ish sensibility. And the latter song features the album's most prevalent melody, a sonically stunning and richly atmospheric intro that lasts upwards of forty seconds.Bare in mind that "Mirrors" probably isn't the type of metalcore that you are used to hearing. This is a very challenging album, and its lack of immediate hooks, melodic vocals, conventional song structures, and sing-along choruses is likely to be initially a bit frustrating for some listeners, so it will probably require several patient, repeat listens to appreciate and absorb fully. But don't give up on it, because it may not be as easy to swallow as most standard metalcore fare, but after giving it a little time to digest, it is ultimately much more satisfying.

Very fast delivery, everythings cool!

Super ! Livraison rapide ! Je suis très satisfaite !

Misery Signals Mirrors ist ein perfektes beispiel dafürwas man alles so geiles im Metalcore machen kann.Der Drummer ist auf jeden fall einer der tightesten Säue dieich je live sehen durfte.Für Fans von August burns red und Walls of jericho ein Traum !

フォールアウトボーイのパトリックのヴォーカルの曲がとにかく素晴らしい。その他の曲はあまり好きじゃないですね。Toolとかsikthみたいな感じがいい

なんて言葉がでてきちゃいます。(笑)HardCoreでもないと思うし…スクリーモ?に近いかなぁと思うし。何にしてもエモイ!ことは確かです。こうゆう切ないメロディーに絶叫と言うのは最近の私にとってドツボです。絶望の中にほんの少しの希望。そのはかなさに泣きます。そういった音楽はリアルに今の私の気持ちの中を表す音楽じゃないかな。