Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph
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TheNotrap
Staff Reviewer
June 13th 2023


18936 Comments

Album Rating: 3.8

Holographic is also my favorite but I love all their stuff

Ecnalzen
June 14th 2023


12163 Comments


Oh, good, this is getting a decent avg so far. Will have to checks soon

DaveyMonsoon
June 14th 2023


1073 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"7. Symmetric in Design"



This hurts. Why must you hurt me so?

XfingTheSullen
June 14th 2023


5245 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Symmetric in Design is a top G album. More introspective and less bombastic than the ones afterwards, but still absolute gold



hoping this reaches 3.7 at least, would be fair

Darkwatch025
June 14th 2023


424 Comments


TBH, I love all of their albums, but I just listen to Symmetric in Design the least. Reborn and Veil of Illusions are still two of my favorite Scar Symmetry songs though.

Boris K.
June 14th 2023


184 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Could never get into it. Too mediocre. PBP was a pretty big step up but still not great.

Dmax28
June 14th 2023


1273 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I could never rank their albums. I love them all too much. 2012 - The Demise of the 5th Sun, and Detach from the Outcome are such bangers, along with most of the other tracks on the debut. I love most of Dark Matter Dimensions, the issue is, out of the final 5 songs, I think only A Parenthesis in Eternity is essential listening. But the everything else on that album is gold. Unseen Empire is the one that I find the least interesting, but still good, if not compared to the other albums.

DaveyMonsoon
June 14th 2023


1073 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Gotta keep this at a 3.7 and have Phase III whenever it comes out be the same so all of the trilogy is the same rating, it's only natural.

Boris K.
June 14th 2023


184 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Would rate this a 4 if the production weren't so abysmal.

Dmax28
June 14th 2023


1273 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I had some issue with the production. But it sounds awesome in my car with the official CD. Pretty clear actually

XfingTheSullen
June 15th 2023


5245 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah I might be weird because the production doesn't bother me, some people are more particular about production than others, and I seem to fall unfortunately into the latter

peartnoy
June 15th 2023


2192 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

For some reason this isn't clicking with me that much. And I loved the last album so idk what's going on. Might even lower to a 3 if this doesn't hit better soon



JohnFire
June 16th 2023


883 Comments


Yea I'm also not as stoked about this as I had hoped. The dull mix sure doesn't help. Voyage is a goddamn banger though and doesn't outstay its welcome unlike a few other tracks on here.

Also why does the single have a banger artwork and the actual album cover is a total stinker?

XfingTheSullen
June 16th 2023


5245 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

the single's cover art was AI generated, I've heard complaints about it because of that. And scar symmetry cover arts are generally not super bombastic as a rule, they should get Pär Olofsson to do a cover art for them sometime.



on another note, finally the average on this has exceeded its avg on RYM, things are back to as they should be

DaveyMonsoon
June 16th 2023


1073 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Their album covers are usually alright, I really like Holographic Universe's though.

DaveyMonsoon
June 16th 2023


1073 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Anyways, now that I've finished this I can finally say that this is very good, well worth the wait. A lot of this reminds me of Pitch Black Progress atmosphere-wise which is a good thing. Not sure yet how much I like this in comparison to Phase I, but overall it's great to finally hear this and I'm eager to see how they close out the trilogy. Hoping for some surprises.

peartnoy
June 16th 2023


2192 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This does remind me a lot of Pitch Black Progress and it's not my favorite SS album so that makes sense. Digiphrenia Dawn in particular really brought back memories of Illusionist and Slaves to the Subliminal (which I do really like).

XfingTheSullen
June 16th 2023


5245 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Slaves to the Subliminal is an amazing song. PBP is full of absolute bangers, no single bad moment on that album. They're trying real hard to keep up with the old albums and doing a decent job, but I think they would need compositions by Kjellgren to produce a 4.0 avg album again

zuzek
June 17th 2023


930 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Man. Fuckin' Per. Most tasteful guitarist in metal today and it's not even remotely close.

XfingTheSullen
June 17th 2023


5245 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Absolutely, it's great that he's getting more and more recognition, which he fully deserves



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