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thats the point, maan.

omg

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Dat outro on Where is Now. Yessssss.

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Overall leagues above the average djent oriented prog metal. The genre needs more innovators like Micic. It's generally in a very sorry state as a whole.

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Aye, unfortunately it is. I wouldn't necessarily call this djenty though.

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this is fantastic

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"It's generally in a very sorry state as a whole."



yea because meshuggah has basically done everything you can do with down-tuned 8-string chugs. every djent band that ripped that idea, besides like 1 other band, has quickly over-satured the shit out of the sound

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"I wouldn't necessarily call this djenty though."



Me either. The rhythms are there, but the focus is always clearly elsewhere. Djent has really become a

bad word, too. I was against that at first, but I think it's time to accept the fact.

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Meshuggah has done everything you can do with 8-string chugging? That's a huge generalization.

There's many different rhythm styles that they haven't done, I've never seen them mix exotic rhythms

like latin, asian, african rhythms or even do more western rhythms like swing, or tons of different

rhythmic styles found in classical. There's tons of other stuff a guitarist can do that they haven't

done yet in metal, with rhythms like phasing rhythms, mixing different rhythms with the other

members of the group to create a completely different sound. Then you can add different types of

harmony, and there's tons of different types of harmonic systems out there. Rhythmic displacement

and polyrhythms which Meshuggah does isn't all there is to rhythm, that's only a small fragment of

rhythm. I'm not a fan of most "djent" but generalizations like yours that there's some sort of

unbreakable wall when it comes experimentation/evolution in music irritate me.

Album Rating: 3.5

fine, everything worthwhile to do with them.



idk all these shitty bands that come in and milk 8-string down-tuned chugs and meshug polyrhythms for all their worth and throw some ambient harmonies overtop or synths or rapping (fucking lol) is just lame. it takes all meat and power out of the sound and leaves a cheap hollowed mess. take tesseracts first LP for example, they had promise, but turned into a shitty prog metal band with shitty vocals and no oomph in their step. it's just cheap and too many bands jumped on that bandwagon waay too fast

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"take tesseracts first LP for example, they had promise, but turned into a shitty prog metal band

with shitty vocals and no oomph in their step."



Amen

Album Rating: 4.0

Can someone comapre this to a couple of bands for me so I know what I'm getting into?



Please be serious, poor favor...

You could just, you know... listen to some of it, maybe-sort-of-kinda? It's streaming in full on their bandcamp page. There's a link in the first comment.

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Everything worthwhile? You sure love you express your opinion as fact, oh wait I forgot this is

Sputnik where many people think they're an expert of what's good and bad in music and that only

their opinion matters. Music is opinion based.



Meshuggah didn't create polyrhythms, it's been around for hundreds of years and don't have their own

specific style of polyrhythms. Ambient harmonies? Oh God, I'm sorry, but do you even know what

you're even talking about? I'm not a fan of the genre but why are you trying to throw around big

words when you don't know what they even mean? Why not simply state you find the genre bland rather

than trying to justify it by misusing terms and treating your opinion as fact.



Anyways it's funny how discussions on here usually stray from talking about the album lol.

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I'm at work so I can't but I just wanted a general idea of what these guys are like. Just wanted some opinions.

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I wasn't referring to you Impervious lol. Never mind, I didn't read Ecnalzen's comment when I typed

this.

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to djent or not to djent.



I don't care either way, music needs to be good in the first place, I'm not going to change my opinion based on a genre

recommended by reviewer
David Maxim Micic - Bilo 2.0
Ryan Wall - Sleep
The Omega Experiment - The Omega Experiment
The Devin Townsend Project - Some oddly perfect blend of all 4 original DTP albums

That's all I got, which technically wasn't even mine to have to give in the first place.

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>I'm at work so I can't but I just wanted a general idea of what these guys are like. Just wanted some opinions.



Devin Townsend (as previously mentioned) meets Chimp Spanner (djenty chords but melodic) meets Beardfish's instrumental tracks (jazz fusion influence) meets Traced in Air-era Cynic (lyrics).



Stew for two hours and serve over Serbian rice.

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Cynical's got it right.