Album Rating: 3.5

"Exactly my story with these guys. Part of me was even asking "Should I like this? I´m not sure I feel good liking this." But then I realized I´m too old to care if this is all a gimmick and a marketing operation in action. I just know I like the tunes, and that they move me."



Yeah pretty much.

And it's funny, for all the talk of the band being pretentious, so many of the negative remarks are from an "this is objectively bad music bc science and I can tell it's bad because my opinion is better than the idiots that enjoy it" standpoint.

Album Rating: 2.0

Damn yeah that's exactly what I said

Album Rating: 3.5

Lmao I actually had you down as an exception because I thought you approached it from probably the least dick-ish and open minded manner of anyone in the thread who didn't really like it (I did say many, not all!)

Album Rating: 3.5

2.7 was probably my assessment on first listen of Sundowning as well but for me and a lot of people they really have something that gets under your skin and scratches an itch that nothing else really does.



Yes a lot of it is corny and stupid but Im 35 years old and I could give a fuck, it's so easy to just take the silly stuff with a grain of salt and laugh at it and not be an asshole.

Album Rating: 2.0

nice username for a 35 year old bro.

Album Rating: 3.5

Thanks bro.

Album Rating: 1.0

lmfao

Album Rating: 1.0

Don't stop believing. I'm about to turn 33 and I'm the most immature I've ever been.

Album Rating: 2.0

i think they execute what they are going for very very well here, and there are gonna be dozens of way worse copycats 2-3 years from now



my problem is i just find what they are going for to be completely fucking repulsive haha. i can totally understand the appeal others find in it tho

Album Rating: 3.5

Trust me, I want to hate it sometimes.



The shitty generic metalcore community is going *crazy* for them and I really am not a fan of the shitty generic metalcore community.



"Don't stop believing. I'm about to turn 33 and I'm the most immature I've ever been."

yeehaw brother

Album Rating: 2.5

Liked a few tracks but it feels like this album doesn't know what it wants to be. Either commit to the heavy stuff and incorporate more interesting riffs or drop it completely.

Album Rating: 2.0

anytime bro!



I keep reading about this god they worship lately so when this guy was singing "sugaaaaaarrrrr I've developed a taste for you" on the first record was he talking about this sleepy deity or is this new lore?

Album Rating: 4.0

The genre-bending here is goddamn phenomenal. anyone who claims this band is "directionless" just wants albums that fit in one box.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah the 'they should change their sound to be exactly what I want' comments are my favorite.

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't think I've ever seen an album with a rating this high have such a negative comments section. Pretty interesting for sure

Album Rating: 4.0

It's so funny, people really are allergic to variety. I guess that's the same reason why Brutal Death Metal and Slam are so popular, they're so god damned SAMEY. Literally put any slam album on and it all sounds the same. But a band like this does a shitload of things at once and they're "directionless". Giving the same energy that everyone bashed Amo on.

Album Rating: 2.0

Variety is not a strength here... but I'll let y'all vibe to this.



And brutal/slam dm is NOT popular lol, very much a niche sound that Sput isn't too sold on.

Album Rating: 1.0

is variety really an advantage when your songs sound like imagine dragons half the time

Album Rating: 2.0

Songs all blended to me + Imagine Dragons = no bueno

Album Rating: 2.0

It's not that I want them to change their sound. It's that I can't put this together into a cohesive album. Separately from the others, each song makes usually makes sense and is pleasant. But then when I listen to the album from start to finish it feels very clunky. And some songs feel like they're proggy for the sake of being proggy, not because it fits.



"Are You Really Okay?" caught me off guard with how much I liked it--all the layered vocals and bigger chorus. But it feels out of place with other things that are happening on the album.



Good prog has a sense of continuity, and I'm not finding it here. I agree: kudos to these guys for doing something different. It's just not for me. And I get that they're not trying to be "prog" per se, but the amount of ideas they're smashing together into one album makes me think otherwise.