johnny has done plenty of reviews praising more 'mainstream' artists and has a fair amount offering a more negative perspective on small and very niche artists too, i think you just take a difference in opinion way too seriously.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

this album requires you not to be an emotionless husk to be enjoyed

Album Rating: 1.0

‘if someone told me this was entirely AI created i'd believe them’ (2)



‘In the space of about a year they've gone from playing 500 cap venues to 2k cap venues here in the UK and any metal act that can play 2k cap venues is basically mainstream.’

Interesting. I heard about them 3/4 years ago (can’t remember exactly) and they had a song on radio which was unremarkable / not exactly impressive, but I don’t remember thinking it was hilariously bad or anything. It was being ‘pushed’ by a source I would certainly never trust knowing what I know now, but yeah they weren’t huge at the time.

Album Rating: 2.0

i do feel my 1.0 rating *may* be unfair because i didn't listen to the whole record, but honestly i got three tracks in and it made me quite uncomfortable to listen to and not in a challenging or confronting way - it was just a totally repulsive sound. artificial to the point of being scrubbed clean of any sentiment.

tundra considering you write like an ai trained on book assignment reviews from 5th graders thats a bit hard to take seriously

^ though it also makes sense

"In the space of about a year they've gone from playing 500 cap venues to 2k cap venues here in the UK and any metal act that can play 2k cap venues is basically mainstream."

eh maybe we differ on what qualifies as mainstream but thats not that big for me. maybe upcoming in their niche but there's plenty of artists doing similar numbers. 'mainstream' when it comes to pop metal stuff would be like architects or something

Album Rating: 4.0

"johnny has done plenty of reviews praising more 'mainstream' artists and has a fair amount offering a more negative perspective on small and very niche artists too, i think you just take a difference in opinion way too seriously."

Maybe he has. but it definitely feels like ever since I returned a few months ago, he just seemed to Specifically Have It Out for the "mainstream" artists that normalized the ability to be okay with being emotionally honest and vulnerable. Knock on wood, Nine Inch Nails. "Closer" isn't a sex anthem as much as it is a self-loathing analysis of self.

Album Rating: 3.0

writeup ain't wrong aside from some haphazard comparison to loathe, but



"so overproduced"

"mercilessly polished tones"

"big bucks mastering"



why is everybody pretending that, on a very basal level, discounting all musicianship and vocal performance, that this album doesn't /sound/ like absolute shit? the production is fucking terrible, and not in a "it's so good it sounds fake" way, no, it just fucking sucks. literally done-by-someone-without-ears tier suck. physically painful.

Album Rating: 4.0

Each to their own and everything. At a basic level, the nature of ST's ... disposable approach to genres on this record is going to be fairly divisive.



The review made me chuckle though. I got the impression the reviewer wanted to stay up on that soapbox, but was dragged off it before they started rambling on about 'the youth of today' and their short attention spans.



Old man yells at cloud, but with a modulating shout over a trap beat.

Album Rating: 1.0

Yeah I didn’t twig / read but 2k isn’t ‘big’, not by my definition

Album Rating: 1.0

I like The Downward Spiral but if you’re so hobbled by your own perspective that you can’t see how someone might think Closer is ridiculous, it’s already too late for you

Apparently, being emotionally vulnerable is a new thing in music. Someone tell John Mayer

Album Rating: 4.0

Definitely feels like we're in a new age of being honest about that stuff especially in "heavier" music where there was, for a LONG time, an aura of bravado, machismo, and "always being tough", ala Pantera. But apparently that's no good if the "riffs" aren't the same as they were during Painkiller days. Full albums like I Let It In and It Took Everything being fully focused on the narrative and the feeling - which, apparently even that album sucks according to Mr. Pretentious Music Snob.

Album Rating: 1.0

Pantera are ducking awful, for the record

Album Rating: 1.0

The virgin "we are anonymous and/or a cult and/or some ARG bullshit and nobody knows from whence we came" vs the chad "we love our scene here's a split ep with our friends here's a charity comp for a local venue"

here is your bonfire and your kindling place
drink and be whole again beyond confusion

Album Rating: 1.0

There’s hella good inward looking metal music these days agreed



An Isolated Mind is grand

Album Rating: 4.0

Its a marketing gimmick, idrc about that, you gotta do what you gotta do in crapitalism to stay afloat while chasing your dream.

And yes, An Isolated Mind is great, good shout

Album Rating: 1.0

when did ‘emotional people’ stop listening to Meat Loaf & My Chemical Romance and move onto this sort of shit?

you were better where you were before