Album Rating: 4.5

False. Their first album was pretty good but they've grown up so much since it. Literally every member of the band has gotten better.

band is cringe, haven't checked an album in full beyond the s/t

Album Rating: 2.5

Their first album was pretty good but they've grown up so much since it.

Album Rating: 3.0

"Literally every member of the band has gotten better."



not at writing songs that's for damn sure

Album Rating: 2.0

"band is cringe, haven't checked an album in full beyond the s/t"



yeah don't bother if u didn't like the s/t, their music gets less cringy but also less engaging and more homogeneous



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Well, when I thought the lyrics couldn't get any worse, then this album came out...

Also the first album is really good, but listening to it now kinda sucks because I'm hearing how machine-like it is, in a bad way.

Album Rating: 3.0

I felt that the first album was sort of a diet-Meshuggah knock off in a way. It was good but it wasn't particularly engaging for me.



I'll admit they've gotten more creative (sort of anyways) over the years but it goes both ways. A lot of the songs they have feel like jigsaw puzzles that they pieced together with some stupid bullshit lyrics thrown in because they can. That being said their more melodic stuff has gotten a lot better and when they stick to that it's pretty good.

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

They just gotta make an album of stuff like marigold and flatline.

Album Rating: 4.5

@toondude10 I will say that Habitual-Line Stepper and Motormouth have a little bit of that jigsawey-ness to them, but the rest of the album feels super cohesive. And when you look at what a lot of their peers are doing in the metal scene, this blows most everything out of the water.

Album Rating: 3.0

On a technical aspect, sure. But lyrically, structurally, and in terms of songwriting skill you can chuck that shit out of the window.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'll give you lyrically. Spencer does wear his heart on his sleeve which I think leads to some very vague or abstract lyricism. Almost like a knee jerk reaction sort of thing. But songwriting... a lot of the songs are so good, and the mood progresses really nicely through the whole thing. It's really easy to track the journey the album takes.

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

Plenty of the songs are decently composed. Lyrics aren't great but a lot of the time i can forgive them. Periphery is not a band that i listen to very critically normally

Album Rating: 4.5

Bummer, you're missing out man ;)

Album Rating: 5.0

Lol this site still hates Periphery

Album Rating: 2.0

well, they suck just as much as when they started, so

Album Rating: 4.5

It's ironic because they are literally one of the only bands in their genre actually experimenting and doing something that isn't bland.

Album Rating: 3.0

for a band that's considered "experimental" they don't really do anything different here tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

*shrug*



Too many elitists here

Album Rating: 2.0

experimenting doesn't mean a lot if they don't do it well, although yeah other djent bands suck and are boring

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I honestly havent jammed anything by this band since their first album, but i kinda wanna through their discog just to buffer my bottom feeder ratings