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Ranking Bring Me the Horizon’s Albums

Since Bring Me the Horizon has 4 albums with anniversaries between September and November (including their debut album, Count Your Blessings , whose 15 th anniversary occurs while I am writing this, as the album was released October 30 th , 2006), I thought it would be fun to rank their albums, especially since they are one of my favorite bands.  I listened to all 6 of their studio albums again so that I wasn’t biased (I’m glad I did since my order drastically changed) and ranked them.  I also have two honorable mentions:  one that is an extended play and one that is a live album.     Honorable Mention:   Post Human:   Survival Horror (2020) Since it is not technically one of their studio albums and has been described as either an EP or a release, it cannot be officially included in the rankings.   That said, this 9-track, 32-minute release appears to be the group incorporating some metal from their earlier releases (as evident in the me...

Most Epic Concert Moments

For the second entry in the Concert Series, I make possibly the most ambitious choice I could have made:  a post discussing the most epic moments at concerts I have been to.  The reason this is so difficult is because I know there is no way that I can replicate these through writing, but I have thrown caution to the wind and decided to go for it. To set some guidelines, epic in terms of entertainment is something that is usually large-scale or over the top, and an epic song is generally considered one that is either a massive large-scale song or a long song (often both).   I did not thing that this was fair to smaller artists, who generally cannot make a large-scale production, or artists of genres where long songs are not common.   As such, I also included moments that resulted in the same kind of feeling I get from these to account for artists who wouldn’t be considered otherwise.   I also considered unique or insane events for my rankings.   Honora...