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4.5 superb | Brometheus | September 10th 14 | I hate Jacs sound off so much. This album is amazing.
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2.0 poor | Pon EMERITUS | September 8th 14 | Imagine Tesseract and Cynic had a baby but then got divorced and Tesseract won the custody case and Cynic was denied visitation rights.
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3.5 great | botb | September 15th 14 | drift with the ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flowebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flowebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flowebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flowebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flowebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flowebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flowebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow ebb and flow
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4.0 excellent | InFiction | September 8th 14 | Really impressed after the first listen. Everything sounds much more organic and natural as opposed to the manufactured sound of Intrinsic, and it manages to tread the line between beautiful and heavy. Also, 'Ebb & Flow' is a knockout!
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3.0 good | My Name Is Mud | September 9th 14 | While The Contortionist's potential still hasn't been fully realised, Language is quite a significant step in the right direction after the terrible Intrinsic.
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0.0 | MerlinGaines | September 9th 14 | Das it mane Das it mane Das it mane Das it mane Das it mane Das it mane Das it mane Das it mane
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4.0 excellent | Comatorium. | September 8th 14 | Holy balls. Out-Cynics the new Cynic with flying colors. Light up a joint and listen to the Language of The Contortionist take you away.
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5.0 classic | itsyaboicobby | December 29th 17 | I personally view language (both parts) as the greatest songs ever composed
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4.5 superb | Nomos | September 11th 14 | Amazing. Heavy but so melodic and atmospheric. Gorgeous melodies. Their best work.
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5.0 classic | isthathenry | September 9th 14 | Better and more fleshed out songs than on Intrinsic. Mike is a great vocalist and excellent addition to the band.
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3.5 great | TheFantasticDangler | September 8th 14 | Awesome and solid throughout, I can't believe Primordial Sound ended up being a weaker track.
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0.0 | Grinddestroyer | September 8th 14 | I thoroughly enjoyed this on first listen. Lessard's cleans are wonderful. 'The Parable' and 'Ebb & Flow' are my favorite tracks.
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3.5 great | Antigen | September 8th 14 | This might end up being a 4, but shit what's up with all the 5's.
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4.5 superb | crowing51 | September 8th 14 | Definitely their best album. They took everything wrong with Intrinsic and fixed it ten fold. The Cynic influence is clearly there but done perfectly instead of sounding like a copy and paste of sound.
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4.5 superb | aresx | September 8th 14 | highly impressed. just listened to it all the way through. about to go back once more. its a suprisingly good balance of heavy and melodic pieces. so so good. my favoritte album of theirs by far
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4.5 superb | VanFullOfSpooks | September 3rd 14 | Language rivals The Contortionist's old album Exoplanet and easily blows Insintric out of the
water, while still having you wanting to come back for more. Simply a spectacular treat for your
ears and the production value is top notch! The Cynic influences is strong and the album treads
the line between between being melodic, beautiful, and at times, very brutal. I may even change
this to a 5 since it is really starting to become one of my favorite albums of the year. Also if
you want Exoplanet, GO LISTEN TO EXOPLANET! This album is amazing on its own. Ebb and Flow is
probably one of the best songs these guys have done in awhile!
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5.0 classic | AnimalsAsSummit | June 3rd 21 | This has always been the biggest Ebber and flower around and if you ain’t dipping your toes in this shit then what
the fuck are you doing with your life homie
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3.5 great | d00stin | January 28th 20 | There are some really interesting ideas here, but by the second half of the album I find myself going "I get it. It's really complicated. It's really pretty. Cool." It gets redundant is what I guess I'm saying. I have listened to progressive metal for a long time, so maybe I'm jaded, but this album falls into the same overcomplicated groove that so many albums in the genre have before. I think bands like this tend to hide behind complexity to make up for the fact that they don't have a unique idea. For all it's fireworks, this album kind of all sounds the same. That being said, this is a really creative album. Even the overly complex heavy moments are pretty different. There are enough incredible, breathtaking moments on this to warrant a "Great" rating. Language has so much potential. I think The Contortionist just needs to focus!
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0.0 | zetsumeisama | April 8th 19 | Favorite Tracks: The Parable (Rediscovered), Ebb & Flow, Language I: Intuition, Integration, Arise, Thrive.
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5.0 classic | Nine | January 15th 19 | An engaging and enthralling narrative with a nice yin-yang of clean and heavy vocals and instrumentation."Language" "Thrive" and "The Parable" stand out the most
for me and with each spin, it continues to grow on me. The Alan Watts inclusion at the end makes it all worth listening in the end. Ties the bow nicely on the
theme of this record.
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4.0 excellent | Xenorazr | June 9th 16 | Considerably more ethereal than their previous material, Language sees The Contortionist reaching a progressive, melodic plateau, taking cues not unlike older groups while retaining a decidedly modern exterior all the same.
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2.0 poor | Skyline28 | April 18th 16 | The Alan Watt's quote at the end really makes me want to like this album more than I do. Half of 'Language' gets it right, at many points it has a beautifully ethereal progressive rock sound that is outright blissful ('Language I: Intuition' is a perfect example of this style of song-writing). However, just as you find yourself falling into a peaceful void beyond this world you are hit with monotonous, disjointed djent riffs that pull you down to a place where bland Meshuggah worship is king. These two elements feel poorly integrated and uneven killing an album that had a lot of potential.
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4.5 superb | TheFourthCircle25 | February 26th 16 | I was worried about this album prior to its release. It sounded more and more like it was diverting away from the "Exoplanet" sound that made me fall in love with the band in the first place. However, as the record went on, I felt the new sound fit perfectly with what the band was trying to go for. It's beautifully atmospheric, but also filled with plenty of heavy moments, screaming vocals or not. Mike Lessard is a great addition to the band, and overall the band is moving a great direction, and I'm loving it. 9/10
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4.5 superb | Andrewhickman28 | August 8th 15 | A fantastically progressive album with an emphasis on beautiful. TC takes a route that leads them to a whole new sound.
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3.5 great | Spec | November 15th 14 | Traced In Language. Seriously though this one is miles ahead of Intrinsic but its no Exoplanet thats for sure.
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4.5 superb | zmol | October 17th 14 | Having never heard The Contortionist prior to listening to the atmospheric Language I when it was released, I quickly put Language towards the top of my anticipated albums of 2014. Then, when it came out, I found myself severely disappointed. It felt so boring and lackluster, like it was happy to coast on nothing but filler. But then, after each play, it made that much more sense, until finally I felt the grooves, fell in love with the heavier parts (which were some of my least favourite sections), and just 'got' the album. I can't stop listening to the second half of the Parable - some powerful stuff. But, seriously, such a great album. Out of nowhere (for me), this is a contender for AOTY.
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3.5 great | IronGiant | October 7th 14 | more like a 3.3. moments of brilliance ultimately shine lackluster amongst the record's brooding middle and somewhat anti-climactic ending tracks
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3.5 great | Alabaster Jones | September 30th 14 | The Contortionist has been received as one of the best deathcore bands in recent history. Their debut album, Exoplanet, was a breath of fresh air in a very stale deathcore scene, taking traditional deathcore elements and mixing them with elements of djent, ambient, and progressive metal in the vein of Cynic. They shed most of their deathcore influence on 2011's Intrinsic, which was met with mixed reactions. Now, they have released a more focused and all around better album in Language. The clean vocals employed on Intrinsic make a return here, but they fit much better with the music this time around. The first three tracks are excellent, melding all of their influences into this third of the album, even harkening back to their Exoplanet days on "Language II: Conspire". The middle of the album, though, is a bit of a drag. Songs like "Integration" and "Arise" are sort of just there, not really doing anything. However, the album does close on a strong note with "The Parable", which is entirely indicative of what The Contortionist can, and hopefully will, accomplish in the future.
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4.0 excellent | mkamrass | September 25th 14 | Though I have not heard The Contortionist's second album, I have heard people say this is a more refined and organic version of it. Now to compare this to their first album, which I love, it is almost the complete opposite. While their first is very heavy and has mellow parts at a minimum, this album is very mellow and has heavy parts at a minimum, but when it is heavy, it is HEAVY. It is a progressive metal effort by The Contortionist that is a little hard for me to get use to but I like it a lot plus I like the edition of a new vocalist for more variation even though I never had a problem with their first. By the way, this is a very clean Contortionist in terms of production also. If you like Cynic and BTBAM, check this out!
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2.5 average | Fernando Alves STAFF | September 24th 14 | Between the Buried and Me do it better.
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0.0 | emester | September 22nd 14 | Bounces back and forth between genuinely enjoyable, irritating and just plain unbearable. Seriously one of the rmost inconsistent records I've heard in recent memory 2.7/5
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4.0 excellent | BRAman22 | September 16th 14 | Technical as fuck and more of an atmospheric soundscape than The Contortionist's other albums.
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0.0 | Zorak | September 11th 14 | only one person used the word organic in their soundoff dude. chill lol
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2.5 average | SIMBOLIC | September 11th 14 | kinda wanna finish listening but im jamming good music atm :/
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