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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Hollywood Records
Salesrank: 166
Released: September 29, 2009 |
| Our Price: $8.49 |
| Used Price: $8.20 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Dear Agony Track Listing:
1. Fade Away
2. I Will Not Bow
3. Crawl
4. Dear Agony
5. Lights Out
6. What Lies Beneath
7. Without You
8. Give Me A Sign
9. Hopeless
10. Into The Nothing
11. Anthem Of The Angels
Editorial Review:
2009 release from the American Alt-Rock band. Features the single 'I WIll Not Bow'. Breaking Benjamin has toured with the cream of the Rock crop: Nickelback, Korn, Evanescence, Three Days Grace, Seether and Three Doors Down.
Dear Agony Reviews:
fitting title and cover art 
2009-12-23 - How can I kill myself? Let me count the ways. After the great 'We are not alone' and 'Phobia', I found this album good, but relentlessly depressing.
It drives into your brain and dwells in your subconscious. It did for me anyway. It is a great album and it does rock. Its just emotionally rough.
I'm almost afraid to listen to it again. U OK Ben?
It Won't Disappoint
2009-12-17 - If you enjoy darker music that you can get lost in, you will adore this album. My personal favorites are "Give Me A Sign," "Anthem Of The Angels," and "Dear Agony" but every track is captivating in its own way. If you are on the fence about buying this album, just get it, it won't disappoint.
MY BEST CD OF 2009 
2009-12-10 - I own all BB CD's, and this is clearly their best yet. The best way for me to describe it is that every single song has the same feel and intensity as their classic song Diary Of Jane. I LOVE THIS CD, and it's my favorite of 2009. Thanks BB for your hard work and dedication!
Something is off here! 
2009-12-08 - I'm all for artists reinventing themselves and coming up with new sound every now and then as long as they stay true to the core elements that made them who they are in the first place and earned them a fan base.
Unlike prior albums, only half of this one is good. The rest sounded like some dissappointing attempt at pop rock. I'm not exaggerating nor joking, unfortunately, some songs sound so bad to me, that I thought I was listenting to some crappy pop rock band! Unacceptable really! But it happens with some artists.
Anyway, I'm still a fan, and I'd definitely buy their next album as well. The 2 preceding albums, Phobia and We're Not Alone, were legendary solid, very creative, and had a distinctive sound that clearly separated Breaking Benjamin from the rest of the pack. They better do a reset, go back and figure out what worked and what didn't, and work much harder on that next album!
Dear Ben, Howcome you never tour with any good bands?
2009-12-02 -
Breaking Benjamin is one of the FEW mainstream bands that I actually like. They're actually capable musicians who have solid song writing abilities. And they have their own unique sound. You know when you're listening to a Breaking Benjamin song even before Burnley starts in. Not many mainstream bands are able to achieve this, and thus I have had an affinity for these guys over the years.
The new album is good. In my world (which is very lonesome sometimes), "Without You" is the best track on here. "I Will Not Bow" is getting killed on the radio, gee what a surprise right? Nonetheless, it is also a decent song; as are all of the songs on this release. I would REALLY love for two things to happen with this band during the upcoming decade...
1) I would like to hear BB take a more progressive, less mainstream approach to songwriting (although they are great songwriters all the same). It would just be cool to see them step out of the comfort zone a bit and try something more unexpected. I am more than confident that they could pull this off with flying colors. Ben, if you're reading this (which you probably aren't)... write your epic man. You're brilliant, you know you are... just let it all bleed out from here on in.
2) I would like for BB to tour with better bands. I would really enjoy seeing these guys live sometime, but I don't think that I could sit through the other performances patiently. This breaks my heart, really... it does.
In conclusion, "Dear Agony" is a very enjoyable listening experience. I would recommend it to anybody who has taste and appreciates good music when they hear it. I do look forward to seeing what BB does with their potential throughout the next decade. And maybe I'll be able to catch these guys live with some better bands on the ticket. Hope. Hope. Hope.
- D Man -
