Album Rating: 3.5
This album has a very smooth progression throughout-none of the added layers ever feel forced or unnatural, and so everything here works in a coherent way. What stops me from rating this higher however is the lack of excitement I got from the overall sound. The musicianship is certainly experimental and even dynamic in places, but at the end I was left wanting a lot more, and especially from the vocal delivery. Nonetheless, a few songs really impressed me here, namely "The Words" and closer "The Other's Fall".
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Album Rating: 3.5
i can agree with that
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Album Rating: 4.0
Robert, you magnificent bastard.
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Remember listening to this last week and I recall the Tool influences these guys got bashed for on Cognitive are really not that prevalent on this album.
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Album Rating: 2.5
average
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So this was better than expected.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
For me absolutely! I didn't expect this to be great but I was very impressed with this release.
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I really wanted to enjoy this more, cause the instrumentation is top notch. It's the vocals that let it down though. I'm not sure if it's down to the production, but they lack power and sound kind of samey throughout.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I was going to say this reminded me of Riverside a bit, but Willie beat me to it!
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This isn't half as good as Cognitive (a personal contender for AOTY 2012). These guys under-delivered.
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cognitive was a shameless tool ripoff
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'm not getting a strong Tool or Opeth vibe from this at all. I honestly don't see the comparison to Opeth at all... maybe a few of the heavier riffs have a slight similarity, but that's a stretch.
Really digging this though. It's got just enough heavy moments to not bore me to death with the vocals... which as with the first album, I really don't care for. Jeff Ekelof is still very monotone and boring in my opinion.
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Album Rating: 2.5
This is so opeth, couldn't Martin Lopez just stay in Opeth and play this stuff?
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Nevermind, this is actually pretty boring.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Nice substitute while we wait for new Tool. I'm happy Lopez got the hell out of Opeth when Akerfeldt decided to turn Opeth into a Camel humping, side-show joke.
I'm not getting a strong Tool or Opeth vibe from this at all. I honestly don't see the comparison to Opeth at all... maybe a few of the heavier riffs have a slight similarity, but that's a stretch.
You sure we're listening to the same album or have you actually listened to Tool or Opeth? Some of this shit is note-for-note spot on cover band.
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---double post---
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yeah like the dissonant section in oscillation pretty much sounds sampled off of stinkfist or something
not saying I dont enjoy them though
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Album Rating: 4.5
I like them, the Opeth resemblance is strong on the first song, Tabula Rasa, but I still dig them and think they'll find their identity. Gj on the review.
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Album Rating: 3.7
This is such a step up from their decent debut, and probably edges out Pale Communion.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I often feel like I'm never going to agree with some arguments. Tellurien is indeed excellent, but I found more to like in their debut. I enjoyed it more than this. I'll relisten to them today to form a more official opinion.
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