Album Rating: 3.0

and all of this doesn't stick for shit

Digging: Cerna - Restoring Life

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

hmmmmmmmmmm

Album Rating: 4.0

Yea this may not appeal to a lot of people since it has core influences with some jazz harmony and "djent" and not many like all three genres. If someone isn't really familiar with the approaches to the respective genres especially in jazz and it's harmony or a person simply doesn't like one or more of the listed genres it may be hard to enjoy (I did enjoy this even though I don't really like core).

Not saying this is a 'masterpiece' because some parts do get bland and probably could of been written better.

It's understandable if some don't really like it.
Everyone has different tastes and preferences.
Also, the odd mix of styles may turn off quite a few people.

Album Rating: 3.5

Lost in our escape is great. the vocals will turn off a lot of people, that and they sound EXACTLY like Periphery at points.

Digging: The Aristocrats - The Aristocrats

Album Rating: 3.5

Just jammed to this for the first time. Holy shit is this lengthy. Too overbearing, and the
transitions between DJUN DJU DJOIN and jazz sound awful, it's too all over the place and most of the
songs seem very unstructured. I'll try again later but man, i thought i was in for a treat after so
much acclaim for these guys. Probably gets better, but it's hard to get a good first impression on
this.

BUT, Chris is a great singer.

Digging: TesseracT - Altered State

Album Rating: 2.0

I heard the singer for this band is now in The HAARP Machine.

Digging: Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

Album Rating: 3.5

Sumerian gathering up the big boys to keep oiling The CAASH Machine hum?

Album Rating: 3.5

I wouldn't say he's a great singer man...

The guitarist is fantastic but yeah the songs definitely fail to engage.

Album Rating: 3.5

I like his input on this. I didn't mind his stuff with Periphery though, as far as i recall.

Yeah definitely, their length doesn't help the slightest bit.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

nah he is definitely a great singer

Album Rating: 3.5

I think so yes. I mean, for most of the time he is a great presence on this. He has some range too. Sotelo is better though. I know it's not the best term of comparison, but Sotelo right now slays pretty much all competition in terms of range and presence.

On PII, that is. On P1 he wasn't as good.

Album Rating: 3.5

Lol no he fucking isn't

Album Rating: 4.0

I would have to agree the album is a bit lengthy.
The transitions to the jazz sections are done well in my opinion and the jazz sections don't stray too far from the original heavy sections by keeping similar harmony and melodies/ideas. It would be hard to like/appreciate on the first listen if you don't notice the ideas that pull the songs together(they did that quite a bit on the album).

Album Rating: 3.5

Oh, this album is hard to appreciate on any sort of first listen imo. But i get you sora, and maybe you're right. In the past, some albums have seemed a bit off to me in terms of transitions and structure, only to grow into outstanding albums later on.

This one though, is not looking good.

Album Rating: 4.0

I understand. The mixture of different styles will throw quite a few people off at first or always will. The transitions and progressions may sound odd to some people lol.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

not to sound like an ass or anything but this album makes sense when you know theory

What I heard from this album was pretty cool, but it was like once. I'll have to jam it again, not sure if Ill ever be into those cleans though.

Digging: King Crimson - Lizard

Album Rating: 4.0

Chucky, that's pretty much what I said earlier lol.
Well I think it'll make more sense if a person knows a bit of jazz theory rather than standard theory.
Even if someone doesn't know a lot of theory if they listen to a bit of jazz and the other styles they
present on the CD they'll probably understand it more easily and listen intentively to the ideas being
used, it'll make sense. Though it'll sound strange to someone not used to the style.

Album Rating: 3.5

Well i guess you have a point. But it's not even the jazz parts that sound bad to me. It's how
abruptly they switch, that didn't sound good to me at all. I won't say that a higher music knowledge
can't help to fix that, it might have a deal of impact on the way you're open to the music you're
listening to and how you receive it, but i truly see this as a matter of taste. It sounded quite odd.
Perhaps i was expecting something else too. I'll go through it again to check wassup.

Album Rating: 3.5

@chucky

I hate you so much for saying that. How old are you, 5? You don't have to know theory for something to "make sense."
You've gone full retard...

What a douchy, hipster fucking comment. People like you are what's wrong with todays excruciatingly terrible elitist
modern metal fan-base.