Album Rating: 3.5
420 votes on this, its a sign i need to get stoned and give this one more chance
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah the opening riff on this album is so bland its hard to imagine this reaching a 4 or even 3.5
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Got stoned last night and listened to it. Decided to review it this morning. It's Meshuggah. One of my favorite metal bands of all time but like I said in the review, they didn't offer anything new or remotely close to groundbreaking on this album.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Fair, but you’re fairly reductive on this
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah ever since obzen there's been a few highlight tracks here and there but everything is incredibly predictable. I feel like the songs here were created with a create-a-meshuggah-song program with different Meshuggah tendencies you can increase or decrease and pump out a song
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If I was excited about the album I wouldn't be so reductive.
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"I feel like the songs here were created with a create-a-meshuggah-song program"
This is EXACTLY why I gave it that review summary, lol.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
“If I was excited about the album I wouldn't be so reductive“
So you admit that you only write well when you like something?
I’m here for the overall argument in the review and quite enjoy some of the punchy sentences but would like to see it more fleshed out. Even one more paragraph would make this feel more substantial.
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I thought it was well written. Being reductive just adds to the (non)-emotional depth that I have for this album, so it only adds to it.
Isn't that what being a reviewer is? Articulating my subjective emotional responses felt for a piece of work? If there's not much else to say, better not to say it at all, rather than come up with something inauthentic.
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Plus capsule reviews are a kind of a shtick for me, borrowing from the great Robert Christgau.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
The site's views on this album have been fairly split and i'd love to see your opinion articulated in a way that does the opposing viewpoint some justice and offers up an idea--i think it could lend to some interesting discussion
I love a personal review but as it stands you make a pretty big point without providing much to back it up, which i think most people will find boring and probably downvote. If that's cool with you, cool, but I'd challenge you to dig in
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Album Rating: 3.0
I usually can’t stand guitar solos but I always liked how meshuggahs solos were almost like accompaniments to the breakdowns that the rhythm section plays
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Album Rating: 3.5
meshuggah's solos have become so stale. 3/4 of their solos lately sound like someone dialing spastically into a psychedelic payphone
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yea bands gotten stale
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
Phantoms was worth the entry fee alone but god dammit i want Meshuggah to take some RISKS. Unfortunately they themselves have said they aspire to be the ACDC of heavy metal. Meshuggah are like the opposite of selling out, they are stubbornly making the same album over and over, with minor tweaks.
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Album Rating: 4.5
that's just your opinion.
best live show of 2022.
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Album Rating: 4.5
"the twisted guitar solos found between (The Abysmal Eye, God He Sees In Mirrors, Kaleidoscope, The Faultless),"
way to generalize half the album in one sentence. i would suggest listening a few more times.
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" their solos lately sound like someone dialing spastically into a psychedelic payphone"
You make it sound like that's a bad thing.
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