Album Rating: 3.0

First 3 songs on this are the best run Tesseract have ever had.

Album Rating: 3.5

concealing fate

Album Rating: 3.0

Hexes >

Definitely the best song they've ever done

Album Rating: 4.0

Hexes goes hard for sure.

Album Rating: 2.0

Wish I could have gotten into this but it's just not there for me.

The next album needs to do something different, whether that involves more prog or otherwise.

Album Rating: 3.0

It's a mix of a few really good songs and average songs.

Listening to a higher quality mix helped improve my opinion of it but not my rating.

bands like these are so painfully average and lifeless

Phoenix is gorgeous. But that's kind of the problem with Tesseract. Individually their songs are beautiful, but the sound is much too repetitive over an album.

The only TesseracT tracks I can listen to by themselves is Proxy, Nocturne, and I guess Concealing Fate if that counts.

Eden?

Album Rating: 4.0

@tunaboy45 as much as I love this album I do agree with you. They need to come up with something new. Seeing them live really made it obvious how repetitive Amos' bass grooves are.

Album Rating: 4.5

Haven't spun this in a while.



It's definitely their most maturely-composed work. And while the melodies aren't as non-stop as the vocal ones on Altered State, they hit a unified groove a lot more often. The songwriting itself is gorgeous.



It's just too bad that there's a few filler tracks that, while still better than 99% of any other band's filler, don't allow the album to flow and crescendo well.



The first 3 tracks are insane. And I love Tourniquet to death. And Utopia is pretty neat.



But Phoenix, Messenger, and Cages is such an uninteresting slog that I usually change artists before I get to Seven Names. Which along with Tourniquet and April might cap off the trio of the three most beautiful songs they've written.



I guess we'll see there this re-envisioning of Polaris goes.

Album Rating: 3.5

middle section of phoenix is amazing tho, and while i dont like messenger im surprised youd find cages less interesting than tourniquet

" the Kenny G of groove metal" I genuinely lol'ed out loud. Great review.

I am 2 songs in, wasn't impressed by the opener, but "Hexes" is lifting this up, that little chorus at the beginning is lovable.

Solid album, I still prefer Ashe and his work in Altered State, but can't disagree in that Dan is a fucking beast of a singer.

It felt though a bit monotonous, few melodies stuck in my head, I may need to go back to it again. I like what they did with Errai.

Not a fan of the Linkin Park rap parts or the Patton personification though. Dan doesn't need to do that kind of stuff.

Wish Ashe stayed as vocalist. Not nearly as dynamic in timbre but damn his melodies make Dan's sound so bland. Dan feels out of place really.

Album is pretty boring.

Album Rating: 3.0

load is blown on the first track. the rest of this is pretty stale

Album Rating: 3.0

Upon revisiting this, it's not bad, just very... safe, I guess? Also, I really prefer Ashe's vox. Voices From the Fuselage are my jam.

Album Rating: 3.0

Don't let Ashe scream, he is not good at it. Could be interesting to have him and Dan on a track together.