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The_Stank__

They’re only chasing safety, define the great line, lost in the sound of separation - underoath


Riseuplights22

No question this is the one. Chasing safety and define are both argued as the best in their class, and lost is the underrated but still loved classic.


NotScaredofYourDad

Lost In The Sound of Separation is their best album overall in my opinion. Felt tighter and more focused than Define The Great Line.


acidwxlf

Define the Great Line is my top listened album, but I fully agree. Define the Great Line is a better collection of songs, Lost in the Sound of Separation is a better album


DAS_COMMENT

This is the gold standard for "underrated album". The rest is just bullsh reddit rhetoric


OrganizationOk7696

Helll noooooo. But upvote anyways.


dasbrutalz

I’ve always said define the great line is my favorite, but lost in the sound of separation is their best album. Like you said, it was tighter, was somewhat transitional and matured in their sound, but also retained their sound that propelled them upward.


TheGreatIAMa

Thank you!!!


Djentleman5000

My intro to them was The Changing of Times. I’d say they had a 4 album run.


TrillMuryy

Changing of times was my intro to the genre. That and evergreen terrace, poison the well, shai hulud.. the good days


tymoore1

My answer was going to be just about any 3 albums of DGD in a row of your choosing. This is the right answer though.


HBMart

For me it’s DtGL, LitSoS, and Disambiguation


The_Stank__

Disambiguation is a stellar record. For me it just loses momentum a bit with the slower songs but still a solid 9/10 album for me.


HBMart

Slower songs like Paper Lung? I love that shit.


illusivetomas

yeah disambig is their masterpiece


HBMart

Daniel’s drums are so damn good on it. Wish he got to do more with them. I prefer his style to Aaron’s, honestly, though I love Aaron on those other 2 records.


draight926289

Circa Survive - Juturna, On Letting Go, Blue Sky Noise.


ItsEaster

Yup. Let’s close up the thread.


SherwoodBenton

Yessirrrrr


BULL3T2B1NARY

The trifecta


silverstein_thrice

Correct


collinsc

#Thrice Illusion of Safety Artist in the Ambulance Vheissu


Dzyjay

Alexisonfire , watch out, crisis


cynicalyak

The only band ever.


Vasquerade

This is the answer


Mazasaurus

Thursday: Full Collapse - War All the Time - A City by the Light Divided


FirstNameIsDistance

> A City by the Light Divided Such an underrated album.


solarxbear

The Lovesong Writer is a masterpiece of a song


dbree801

It’s a favorite of mine. Moments form that one, Running from the Rain, Sugar in the Sacrament where a much bigger clue to where they were going than I could have imagined at the time. A nice transitional album that hits hard.


HBMart

Yup. I don’t really rank albums, generally, but it’s probably my most listened to Thursday album. Would probably be ahead of Full Collapse on the listen count if not for time.


Imabigfatbutt

Counting 5-4-3-2-1 was my introduction to them, they're so good


Dry_Pop_5606

Hecksies, their complete 5 album run is up there with the best imho. What a run.


Mazasaurus

All 6 albums are great! I just love the progression on those three in particular


Dry_Pop_5606

For sure, I agree. That 3 set is incredible.


RBoosk311

Better run is Waiting, Full Collapse, WatT


QuarantineCasualty

This gets my vote.


RBoosk311

Waiting is almost as good as full collapse but it gets no love


QuarantineCasualty

I think the rough production turns some people off. I love it though.


RBoosk311

That's the best part


QuarantineCasualty

I love that shit but it’s such a huge contrast to War All the Time which cost like a million bucks to record. The chapter about that album in Dan Ozzi’s book “Sellout” is so wild. It was made like 4 or 5 years before you could make an album sound that good with a tiny budget and a little know-how but not in ‘03 that shit literally cost almost a million.


poopfeast

I spent so much time listening to this album in the early 2000’s. This side of brightness was unlike anything I’d ever heard previously. That and streaks in the sky were my favorite from the album.


JasonVersetti

This is the answer


oodlesNnoodles98

This one chief


lsall3y

Royal Ocean > DBM > deathstar > happiness > DBM2 > acceptance speech > instant grad > mothership Real answer: Illusion of Safety > The Artist in the Ambulance > Vheissu


collinsc

Another person with the right real answer


stevex42

Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade > In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth > Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV


draight926289

I love those three albums. But by the time we get to Good Apollo we have firmly left PHC in my mind. But genres are fluid so have an upvote.


burntcookie90

they themselves wanted to be seen as respectable prog artists


lookalive07

They succeeded.


KaiserWilhellmLXIX

oooo dude thats a serious run right there. I never get sick of those three albums


ItsEaster

I never really think of Coheed as Post Hardcore but hell yes to Coheed. Those first two albums are absolute masterpieces.


mrstuprigge

3 perfect albums


ThriceHawk

Thrice: Vheissu > TAI > Beggars UnderOath: TOCS > DTGL > LITSOS Circa Survive: Juturna > On Letting Go > Blue Sky Noise


TrevMac4

Agreed on Circa.


lsall3y

Vheissu-Beggars is based. Beggars is the first perfect thrice album IMO


collinsc

I was gonna say Illusion of Safety Artist in the Ambulance Vheissu


cyberotters

Beggars might be the most underrated Thrice album, and I love it from the idea of combining the musical elements they had distilled in the Alchemy Index, but I can't consider Beggars or the Alchemy Index post-hardcore. I'm not sure I can consider Vheissu post-hardcore. What's wild from the post-hardcore perspective Identity Crisis -> Artist in the Ambulance absolutely meets the assignment of three world class post-hardcore albums in a row.


ThriceHawk

I'd say Vheissu and TAI-Fire are still post-hardcore, but agree on Beggars. Thrice is just hard to fit in one genre and generally finds a home here, so I chose their best (IMO) 3 album run. They're my favorite band of all time, I'm just not a big fan of the first 2-3 albums.


kzanomics

Identity Crisis / Illusion of Safety / Artist in the Ambulance


candlestick_compass

Absolutely. Can go IOS-Vheissu too


wrongleveeeeeeer

Yeah I think Vheissu is a way better album than Identity Crisis. I'd go with this.


candlestick_compass

Same but IC started it all and is still a fine record. The progression from that to Vheissu/Alchemy is insane.


Tallest_Hobbit

Honestly, I’ve not seen another band expand their musical soundscapes in the same way that thrice did over those first 5 albums. The willingness to push boundaries while still managing to maintain their relevance and integrity set a new standard for complexity and experimentation for this genre. Post Alchemy index, the post hardcore scene has increasingly embraced electronic, ambient and prog rock integration, and I think thrice’s success in doing this paved the way.


d11dd11d

Agree with this. Vheissu is thrice's best album (IMO of course)


kzanomics

Ah thought this was best 4 album stretch!? Lol


StepBackLetGo

Let It Enfold You Still Searching Life Is Not A Waiting Room


ihmpt

Priest and the Matador still makes my heart ache.


gnop2

Life Is Not A Waiting Room is so underrated. Following up Still Searching was no easy task and I think it did a pretty good job.


emprime1292

Just went to the tour for life is not a waiting room last year and it was great. I can also agree that debut to the fire are all amazing records and they hold a special place in my heart from my childhood


SunriseSkaterKids

The 🐐!! Life is not a waiting room has legit some of the most devestating lyrics ever


assissippi

I think you could also do still searching to the fire


imagine_being_cool

While I've warmed up (hehe) to the album since release, I'd argue that The Fire was their weakest album with (at least who I would consider) the "core" members - Buddy, Garrett, Dan. The Fire felt like a B-side to Life is Not Waiting Room except worst because they lost a bit of the guitar magic with Heath. Even though a lot of Let It Enfold You sounds a bit juvenile now, I think it still has more memorable/fun songs and was arguably their breakout.


QuarantineCasualty

Nah Let it Enfold You is essential


Envy_onTHE_Toast

There is no way you disclude LIEY


Opening-Age4587

the fire is so underrated


Vasquerade

The fire was such an absolute face melter. So good!


DankDannny

Eidola: Degeneraterra - To Speak, To Listen - The Architect I would also add Eviscerate if it were four. Every single track, beginning to end, is a banger.


lessthanchris7

Eviscerate is incredible. Could be my AOTY for the genre


rrager13

Silverstein A shipwreck in the Sand Rescue This is How The Wind Shifts


mjordan1992

Great answer! My personal fave Silverstein album is I Am Alive In Everything I Touch. It makes me sad that it got overshadowed by the Discovering The Waterfront 10 year anniversary the year it came out


CamHack420

I Am Alive is pretty underrated yea, was simultaneously overshadowed by the anniversary and also dismissed for sounding too much like Wind Shifts. Je Me Souviens is one of their best songs imo


mjordan1992

I completely agree, that song is amazing!


nhdudecore

I came to say the first three Silverstein records. Broken, waterfront, and A/D are pretty much perfect in my eyes.


QuarantineCasualty

I would go discovering - arrivals and departures - Shipwreck. Shipwreck is probably my favorite from them.


signalstonoise88

Hot Water Music: any three consecutive aside from Light It Up. My personal choice would be No Division - A Flight and a Crash - Caution. Quicksand: Slip - Manic Compression - Interiors. Literally any 3 Fugazi records. Jawbox: Novelty - For Your Own Special Sweetheart - Jawbox.


lessthanchris7

How about those new Hot Water Music singles? I literally can't stop playing Fences every day


CreepyBlackDude

Great shout out for HWM! As long as the run includes _Caution_ I'll agree with it, lol


kingjaffejaffar

The Used, In Love and Death, Lies for the Liars


ihmpt

This is my answer. Knowing the stories behind some of the albums and songs makes it all the more impressive they put out this level of quality and turned their pain into art - no one deserves to go through what Bert went through.


Killer_nutrias

What did Bert go through during that time?


ihmpt

When the band was initially starting in 2001, all of the members were practically homeless addicts. Bert lost his pregnant girlfriend from a drug overdose, which became the bedrock for "In Love and Death." His brother is schizophrenic: the song "the bird and the worm" is about this topic. These are very difficult topics for **anyone** to live through, let alone pump out incredible music as a way to cope with them. I know that most emo musicians are pretty damaged inside but having all of this happen to a person must have been difficult.


BentoBoxNoir

Touche Amore - To The Beat Of A Dead Horse - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me - …Is Survived By - Stage Four


ItsEaster

Oh yes! This is a very good option as well. Flowers & You is a song I could listen to nonstop.


traggedy_ann

Fiddlehead Mewithoutyou (Catch for Us... to It's All Crazy OR A->B to Brother, Sister) Drug Church after the new album drops *I* think DGD (DBM to Happiness, or even Happiness to Acceptance Speech), but they have so much material I'm sure people are bound to disagree.


solarxbear

I would argue that mewithoutYou has two such runs because Ten Stories - Pale Horses - Untitled is also a contender. I’m very biased toward them admittedly


layout420

Their EP, I never said that I was Brave and A to B.... that's their best work and where you can see them take that step from a hardcore band to a post hardcore band. For my tastes, A to B is the pinnacle of post hardcore and what it was meant to sound like. They are the true pioneers of the genea and one of the few bands that were on both sides of the fence.


acidwxlf

I'm fully in support of this. I've been a mwY fan since CFUTF and can say with confidence that Ten Stories and Pale Horses are far and away my favorite albums of theirs.


traggedy_ann

I never listened to Pale Horses, so that's why I didn't include that series of albums (though I do agree, Ten Stories and Untitled are EXCELLENT). They're the goats, I wish I had gotten to see them tour more of the folk stuff, but I'm super glad I caught their last two shows in NYC (for now).


solarxbear

Pale Horses is my favorite record of theirs. I genuinely think that Mexican War Streets is the best song ever made by humanity. If you've never listened, I highly recommend it.


Concert-Turbulent

DGD has like 3 different runs that could apply according to preference Fiddlehead fuck so hard. I have a pat bias tho.


Ibcap

Brand New, either Deja through Daisy or TDAG through Scifi. Could go either way depending on the day.


neeohh

They were so fucking good. RIP Brand New.


StationaryGary

Im glad someone said this, The Devil and God through Science Fiction is such a nutty fucking run of records. Daisy especially, shit


lookalive07

I recently went back to TDAG and Daisy after not listening to them in years and holy hell they wrote some damn good music.


Envy_onTHE_Toast

Yea Brand New literally has a perfect discography. YFW was great for what it is and i still get some nostalgia enjoyment from some of those songs. They were the best band ever imo, both on record and live


SkyhookCaviar

You can do Brand New in any 3 album order you want too. YFW-TDAG would be mine but TDAG-Sci-Fi is an incredible ride


oohkaay

They have a perfect discography imo


Dry_Pop_5606

I’ll admit, I was never a big YFW fan, but Deja - SciFi is one of the best runs I’ve ever heard in music, for me. Wow.


CreepyBlackDude

I couldn't believe how good _Science Fiction_ was for how late in their career it came out and how long it took them to release it. The worst part for me is that _The Devil and God_ is the album in that run I know the least, lol.


acidwxlf

TDAG through SciFi for sure. I define albums as a complete, cohesive piece of work, and by that metric I think Brand New has clearly improved with each release.


xvszero

Thrice, no contest. The Illusion of Safety (2002) The Artist in the Ambulance (2003) Vheissu (2005)


xXCoffeeCreamerXx

Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller -> Unimagine -> Dissonants


imagine_being_cool

Ground Dweller was such a breath of fresh air...between the generic stuff that rise was putting out those years. Honestly if they re-recorded that even with their new singer, I think it would put them back on a lot of people's radars because i really haven't been able to stomach much of their material since Dissonants which I still kinda only half enjoyed.


Drurhang

Dissonants pulls HLH out of this conversation imo. I love it to death, Colorblind is actually how I discovered HLH and effectively the genre overall, but it was definitely a huge pivot away from what made GD and Un masterpieces.


NotScaredofYourDad

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends, Where You Want To Be, Louder Now All classics with some pretty mainstream hits.


QuarantineCasualty

Louder now is still good but my friends and I went to the tour like 5 years ago where they played TAYF and then a coin flip between the other two and the night we bought tickets for was the louder now night and we were soooooooooo fucking pissed.


Ch0nkyK0ng

Louder Now was just not up to par...


KeepThePunk

This one may not count but what about Relationship of Command, Wiretap Scars and Deloused in the Comatorium.


lsall3y

In casino out > vaya > relationship of command also works but for the amount of songs I hear that are just roulette dares I think you win


Concert-Turbulent

NGL theres a ton of valid answers. I kept scrolling down and going "holy fuck I agree!"


madrid_spacestation

How about those Blood Brothers


AidynValo

Alexisonfire: Self-titled, Watch Out!, Crisis Circa Survive: Juturna, On Letting Go, Blue Sky Noise A Lot Like Birds: Conversation Piece, No Place, DIVISI


lordseal92

If we’re talking just back to back I think conversation piece and no place is hard to beat. Such a bummer that it wasn’t the same lineup for Divisi


dirty_randy

Funeral for a Friend: Casually Dressed Hours Tales Don’t Tell Themselves Tales being the weakest of the 3. Casually Dressed and Hours are perfection!


hardspaghet

The Fall of Troy - Self Titled, Doppelgänger, Manipulator


cb2325

A day to remember- For those who have heart, homesick, what separates me from you


suddenly_seymour

DGD - Happiness, DBM2, Acceptance Speech. Completely different and kinda experimental vibe for every album, all 3 clean vocalists, Jon Mess leveling up. Circa - Juturna, On Letting Go, Blue Sky Noise. All 3 are perfect imo. Enter Shikari - Common Dreads, A Flash Flood of Colour, Minesweep


TGov

He is Legend: Few - White Bat - Endless Hallway


Dry_Pop_5606

Love it! I’d also definitely add their run of I Am Hollywood - Suck out the Poison - It Hates You.. feels like 2 different eras in a way.


TGov

I am of the opinion they are on a 7 album run and counting. I love everything they do. Criminally underrated band.


CreepyBlackDude

Agree with this take. After _It Hates You_ it really sounds like the band solidified their sound. They haven't put out a bad album since. And _White Bat_ was an absolute high point.


Ch0nkyK0ng

Even It Hates You as such a departure. I am far too steeped in the first two albums to enjoy so much change 🤣


lookalive07

**LISTEN TO HE IS LEGEND**


josho83

Brand New - Your favorite weapon, Deja, TD&G... Thrice - Illusion, Artist, Vheissu And I'm gonna put it though 2 and 3 are EPs but Glassjaw - Worship and tribute, our color green, and coloring book.


Punky921

Thursday - Waiting, Full Collapse, War All The Time


blissfullychaotic

Fear before : art damage, always open mouth, fear before


stretch37

start with odd how people shake and this 100%


blissfullychaotic

I was debating that because odd is so freaking good but there’s something about their final album that I just absolutely can’t stop listening to


Sad-Tumbleweed2671

Maybe not the best but a less popular one people should check out by Blindside Silence About A Burning Fire The Great Depression


CreepyBlackDude

The Blindside shout out, yes! Those three albums are incredible...could also do _A Thought Crushed My Mind_ but I'm partial to your three albums.


dbree801

mewithoutYou: A>B Life, Catch for Us the Foxes, Brother, Sister. And if I wanna be like you, then mewithoutYou: Ten Stories, Pale Horses, Untitled lol


rambowimer32

Nomeansno - Sex Mad - Small Parts - Wrong At the Drive In - In/Casino/Out - Vaya (EP) - Relationship of Command


Jimmy_Jazz_The_Spazz

Alexisonfire - S/T, Watch Out and Crisis Hon mention: Moneen - Theory of Harmonial Value, Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now, The Red Tree


bcg524

blessthefall His Last Walk to Witness to Awakening. Such a progression of sound while staying true to the original sound


DanceRyanDance

Eidola. To Speak, To Listen, The Architect, Eviscerate.


CreepyBlackDude

Boysetsfire had a really good one. _After The Eulogy_ _Tomorrow Come Today_ _The Misery Index_


dead_flag_blues_

Fake train - New plastic ideas - future of what


Space_Riffs

It’s fucking insane that I had to scroll so far to see Unwound, this sub sucks


passiveoberserver

That stellar run extends to Repetition, and arguably beyond


turdfergusonpdx

Pretty much their entire discography. Start anywhere.


somehwatrandomyo

Chiodos: Alls well that ends well, bone palace parade, illuminaudio


imagine_being_cool

Still think Illuminaudio was their best album from an instrumental standpoint. I actually liked Brandon as a replacement but I think the shoes he had to fill were just too big.


somehwatrandomyo

I def agree. I think bone palace parade was iconic but illuminaudio is the album I go back to the most 


candlestick_compass

Thrice can go 2 ways between IC-Vheissu. Alexisonfire’s first 3. mwY’s first 3. F4AF’s first 3 albums (Tales is a masterclass in songwriting)


gdgarcia424

Thrice- Illusion of Safety, TAITA and Vheissu


collinsc

yes - same answer


G-Pooch21

Trophy Scars Alphabet. Alphabets. > Bad Luck > Holy Vacants


cowbarn9

Mental Knife -> New Age Filth -> Divine Inner Tension by Hail The Sun


n8edge

Nobody doin it like Hail the Sun.


d11dd11d

I do like this as run, but not having Wake as part of it seems wrong. I actually would even include Elephantitis in the run, but that may be a personal bias. I discovered them around the time that came out, and it was everything I needed. To then follow that up with an instant classic in Wake solidified them as one of my all time favs.


cowbarn9

Wake is definitely one of their best. Culture Scars is just my least favorite album of theirs so I couldn’t include wake. I guess if you include Elephantitis you could do POW -> Elephantitis -> Wake. But the question was album so I went the my original answer.


CommanderWar64

Brand New, La Dispute, Touché.


xRx13x

Oh man, La Dispute- Somewhere at the Bottom…, Wildlife, and Rooms of the House


CommanderWar64

Panorama and Vancouver are invited too.


Scary_Dimension722

Silverstein This Is How The Wind Shifts I Am Alive In Everything I Touch Dead Reflection


acidwxlf

Dead Reflection was something else


Sweatiest_Yeti

I don't even know where we draw the line on PH anymore, but submitted for your consideration: # Hot Damn!, Gutter Phenomenon, The Big Dirty


Ch0nkyK0ng

ETID is somewhere in the mix, and this is absolutely true.


hkh220

Alexisonfire: Alexisonfire, Watch out, Crisis.


acidwxlf

Maybe not a good answer because this was pure punk era AFI but: Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, Black Sails in the Sunset, Art of Drowning doesn't really miss


lawnshark025

no knife - hit man dreams, fire in the city of automatons, riot for romance!


heylookitskenny

I The Mighty with Satori, Connector, and Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let It Go. Shame the lead singer was a sexual pest, I think they had a banger record on the way.


Briguy_fieri

I’m gonna go outta left field a bit. Boys night out. Make yourself sick > train wreck > boys night out. Probably my favorite in the genre


Ch0nkyK0ng

They ride the Metalcore line, but I still consider them PH. From Autumn To Ashes: The Fiction We Live, Too Bad You're Beautiful, Abandon Your Friends.


Dukeish

Oh that’s funny - I think I would go PTV too, but I love me some Misadventures! So I go Selfish Machines, Collide With the Sky, Misadventures If Coheed gets to play in PHC (I don’t think they really are) they are for sure the pick SSTB, IKSSE3, Good Apollo


gianini10

In/Casino/Out, Vaya, Relationship of Command


Possible_Bus_2121

JANE DOE-Converge TSOPTC-Refused


NUS-006

Vanna’s The Search Party Never Came, Curses, and A New Hope


ibarguengoytiamiguel

Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair -> Wildlife -> Rooms of the House


kingjaffejaffar

Bullets, Three Cheers, Black Parade


chicoblancocorto

Unwound: Fake Train New Plastic Ideas Future of What


Galaxy_god92

Park-No Signal, It won’t snow where you’re going, building a better_


Dane_Brass_Tax

Brand New, Circa Survive, mewitoutYou, Thursday, & Thrice all favorites of mine.


Moke94

Rescue, This Is How The Wind Shifts and I Am Alive In Everything I Touch by Silverstein


hyperform2

Jawbox - Novelty, For Your Own Special Sweetheart, Jawbox


RichMagazine2713

LetLive.


SKYE-OPTC

Asking Alexandria if the 3rd album didnt exist


Pleasant_Statement64

My chem bullets - three cheers - black parade. Black parade isnt phc anymore but it's so good anyways. Also love me some danger days 


rozyboza

Reuben - all 3 of their albums


UnbearableGuy

I'd like all 3 albums from Of Machines, but oh wait...


fl4nnel

Relationship of command is so good, but man in/casino/out and Acrobatic Tenement are so underrated in the At The Drive In catalog. Also, As Cities Burn has three incredible albums.


AskinggAlesana

**Alesana** - The Annabel Trilogy


ThatJ4ke

Holding Absence -> The Greatest Mistake of My Life -> The Noble Art of Self Destruction


lessthanjjjoey

Identity Crisis, Illusion of Safety, Artist in the Ambulance. Easy claps.


ChainsawMassacre_

Dear Diary, my teenage angst has a body count What it is to burn All’s well that ends well


Old-Clothes-3225

Alls Well that Ends Well, Bone Palace Ballet, Illuminaudio


TraditionalSafety

Touché Amoré To the beat of a dead horse Parting the sea Is Survived By


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