★★★★★
The Difference Between Hell and Home was a solid album and Canadian melodic-hardcore outfit Counterparts succeed once again with their latest offering of Tragedy Will Find Us. What strikes as impressive from this band is their ability to make their songs intriguing. Instrumentation in each track is different than the last and each lyric pins right to the core of the shambling of broken hearts and soul-crushing fears all around...
- www.theaureview.com
2015-08-07
★★★★★
As far as modern metalcore goes, Counterparts have proven time and again that they are amongst those pushing the genre forward, building upon their older material with each release, and honing their overall sound into a refined variation. That trend continues with their latest release, . Although much of the structure remains the same, the brief forays into darker, more complex and textured territory on many of the songs here make them highlights and demonstrates the band capable of more...
- exclaim.ca
2015-07-23
★★★★★
Metalcore is a genre that's failed completely in grabbing my attention over the years. While bands that helped popularize the genre in the 21st century such as Killswitch Engage and All That Remains have definitely maintained rock solid discographies throughout their lustrous careers; few bands have actually succeeded in capturing the raw, unadulterated intensity tucked away in this style of music - instead burying their potential under gluts of monotonous, open-chord chugging time and...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-08-26
★★★★★
The difference between a good record and a great record is not always apparent. Trying to separate anticipation, and comparisons with previous works is also difficult to grasp. These two things combined make and Home a very puzzling listen for me. Counterparts are able to seamlessly blend the styles of their unpolished, but charming debut album with its more focused and emotional follow up but for some reason it just doesn't do it for me...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-08-09
★★★★★
All Reviews
Counterparts - The Difference Between Hell And Home
July 17, 2013 by Phil Freeman
Released:July 23, 2013 - Victory
AP Rating:
These five Canadians show that they've got what it takes to stretch hardcore's boundaries on their third full-length (and second for Victory)...
- www.altpress.com
2013-08-08
★★★★★
Counterparts - The Difference Between Hell And Home
"Raw feeling, distilled through true musicianship"...
Posted Thursday, 25 July 2013 in ,
Rating: 8 Following the chaotic tirades of their earlier offerings, this third album from the Canadian five-piece delivers a welcome progression; 11 tracks with all the anguish that melodic hardcore thrives on, but with enough testosterone to keep it on the right side of whiney...
- www.rocksound.tv
2013-08-08
★★★★★
There's a bit of irony in Counterparts' rise to relevance. That metalcore is oft-derided for being a "degenerate" form of the genres it meshes is a product mostly of the fact that its music can be simple, evocative, and far more glamorous than those genres, and then of course its (consequent) appeal to the hordes of pasty, hair-tossing, 'esoteric' rebels whose passion for music was affirmed when the universe blessed them with a table in fourth period algebra with the other three most incredible...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-07-28
★★★★★
It would be very easy to write off Canadian hardcore outfit Counterparts. Signed to Victory Records and balancing on the ledge above metalcore's terrible pit of doom, they're fighting an uphill battle from the off. However, rather than let what they should sound like completely define them, on their third album, Counterparts almost - but not quite - manage to find their niche within an incredibly saturated genre...
- www.state.ie
2013-07-26
★★★★★
Counterparts play warm, sentimental hardcore with a focus on layered melody and rhythmic complexity. While their debut featured a more metalcore sound, their follow-up strips down their approach considerably, with their latest effort striking a keen balance between the two without coming across as a needless regression...
- exclaim.ca
2013-07-25
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