 | Seizures The Sanity Universal
4.0
excellent
| Ranking: #51 for 2013 | |
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| 4.5 superb | Benc | November 11th 13 |
One of the best hardcore releases of 2013. The Sanity Universal is chaotic, emotional, and excessively heavy. It
sounds as if Converge and The Arusha Accord made a freaky brain-melting baby. Don't pass this shit up. FFO
Converge, Gaza, and Pariso.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | January 21st 23 |
This is hard to rate, so much brilliance packed into it but it really tired me out. The big culprit is the vocals, which for a band with this much musical prowess are surprisingly flat - it feels like they only do one note in the entire album, yet they are ubiquitous on the harsh parts. The major (but not only) selling point is again the softer parts, especially when they contrast. 1 is an amazing intro at building tension, to a point where you expect it to explode but without knowing what genre it will be. The unfold is not the best, but the rest is very cool.I didn't even notice it into the darker, nasty 2 that gave me ~deathspell omeg vibes. No blank into 3 again - the transitions are beautifully done here, it just sounds like a bridge within the same track. 4's a bit less compelling save for the softer guitars in the middle. 5 shows another strong selling point: they can go pretty batshit chaotic TDEP style. 6 has a lot more of their softer tone which I ofc like, though it has the first meh transition into 7, by which point I was already tired from their anger. Although it's less chaotic it's not bad, it has nice bass and all, but especially with the vocals it all gets tiresome. 8's once again flatter, 9 shows again that the softer bits are the nicest though contrast really is what makes them shine. The end of 11 feels like it is and should be the end of hte album, but 12 takes us on again, to again let us believe the album is ending before an awful reprise on 13. The harsh riff early on 14 is really meh until it gets chaotic, but man their soft tones are so inspiring. The album end was well overdue. 3.3
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| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | April 21st 22 |
This album does one thing right: it manages its heaviness well so that it doesn't tire or bore the listener for the entirety of its overlong run.
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| 3.7 great | Erwann S. STAFF | October 24th 19 |
90s metalcore revival. I preferred the spacey atmosphere they have on the new one (you can find it here and there). Ofc it's very good, but I'd rather listen to Botch woo!
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| 4.5 superb | NewBallistics | May 19th 16 |
Think Converge if they recorded Jane Doe in a dark, decaying building that's suddenly caught fire. It might take a couple listens for some, but when this hits you; you might never listen to metalcore the same again.
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| 3.5 great | Emyr | January 25th 14 |
Kind of sounds like fall of troy leads on two guitars over heavy drums and hardcore voxxxxxx. I like it.
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| 5.0 classic | Cam | April 21st 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Oobaloo | February 15th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Metaxu | May 12th 21 |
| 3.5 great | remi | November 9th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | jmh886 | July 9th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | November 14th 19 |
| 3.0 good | sevhar | November 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Casavir | October 4th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lucman | September 28th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | cvlts | August 20th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Scoot | August 14th 19 |
| 3.5 great | JS19 | August 14th 19 |
| 4.6 superb | clavier EMERITUS | August 4th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | BenCee | June 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom Read CONTRIBUTOR | April 30th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Henry | March 3rd 16 |
| 2.5 average | drewkar | December 13th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Hawks | July 3rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | hsb | June 11th 15 |
| 3.5 great | xbogx | March 20th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fujay | January 20th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mitch S. | November 15th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sunn177 | October 2nd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Feels | September 25th 14 |
| 1.0 awful | Depace | February 22nd 14 |
| 2.5 average | Lours | February 17th 14 |
| 3.5 great | adr | February 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Prole | February 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shimana | January 29th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thor | January 28th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Amebix | January 27th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | NBA | January 27th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Curse. | January 27th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Veldin | January 26th 14 |
| 4.8 classic | Athom EMERITUS | January 22nd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | wil94 | November 12th 13 |
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