YES!!!!!! I love this cd. It is so good. Warning: Do not get this cd if you expect it to sound like anything else you've ever heard or if you don't have a mature ear for hardcore. Three months ago I probably wouldn't have liked this too much, certainly a year ago I wouldn't have. However, it is fresh, it is tight and you are doing yourself a disservice by not getting it. The singer has a set of lungs rivaled only by Shawn Jonas, the old singer for Zao. He starts screaming and doesn't stop, he's so good. The guitars are beautiful and evil at the same time and the drummer is technical and good. Don't expect this cd to be marked by its overwhelming brutality. I was listening to this cd when I first got it and at one point felt a warmth come over me. It kinda freaked me out because I didn't know where it came from. Then I realized Through and Through had slipped into some really excellent emo-ish melody type stuff. To try and describe how they did it is hard. So, instead of having me try to explain it, just buy it. Although I do really love this cd, it tends to get kind of repetitive. In the words of my cousin who was listening to this cd with me when I said that, "lucky for them it all sounds good." He was right, except just like the vast majority of bands, there is still room for improvement. Judging from the improvement I noticed from various compilations to this cd, I'm sure they know that and are improving even as I am writing this. Let me say this, although this cd is not perfect all the way through, it would be an injustice to give it less than a 10. Joshua Aiken is a masterpiece, a work of art on a compact disc.
10/10
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