one of the hardest-hitting records
in the metalcore scene
botch isn't foreign to anyone familiar with the likes of converge and the dillinger escape plan, but given the nicheness of mathcore, they still bear mentioning. and honestly, despite how much i love works like "calculating infinity" and "jane doe", nowadays i find myself coming back to this one more than anything else
truer to the hardcore roots than most of their peers, we are the romans operates less chaotically as a technical showcase and comes across more like a true-blue, aggressively meatheaded metalcore work. you'll still hear the same shrilly 20ish-fret-high chords you'd come to expect from the genre, but the structure of it all is more punk and less prog
if you fuck with botch, then you might also wanna check out the frontman's later project, narrows. other band members also went on to join minus the bear, roy, russian circles and these arms are snakes - the lattermost i may also write an entry for, because i love their debut ep
favorite track: mondrian was a liar
