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| 3.5 great | i want to mort. | December 15th 20 |
this might be the most balloucore album not produced by ballou
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| 4.0 excellent | Lichtmensch | December 11th 20 |
It should be illegal to release such a banger this late in the year.
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| 4.5 superb | Mitch Worden EMERITUS | December 1st 20 |
Y'all out here making AotY lists when Yashira bout to drop a bomb on your heads and you ain't ready for it
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| 4.0 excellent | Trey STAFF | December 12th 20 |
I haven't felt this bludgeoned by an album since Amia Venera Landscape ten years ago. While Amia Venera Landscape and this band both share a penchant for pummeling their listeners with chaos, dissonance, and tempo changes aplenty, Yashira stands on their own too. For one, they are way more relentless in their attack. There's no clean singing and very little in the way of tangible ambience. Instead, Fail to Be's singular focus is on the dissonance and the attack. Admittedly, that singular focus does make for a slightly homogeneous album, but when it's delivered with such power and conviction, I'm not sure I care.
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| 3.5 great | Inoculaeted | December 29th 20 |
Stands on the shoulders of some truly great things. Through Silver in Blood era Neurosis vibes
abound. The ferocity displayed from the jump is impressive and the album rarely lets up. Heavy
as fuck with some sprinkles of post-metal abstraction as a welcome reprieve from the sludgecore
pummeling.
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| 3.0 good | Stop calling Intronaut post-metal | December 15th 20 |
Can't help but come away thinking they're trying to balance a few too many sounds at once. It's not bad but they'd be complimenting themselves so much more by focusing the direction a touch (the standout Impasse being an example).
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| 4.0 excellent | Scoot | December 13th 20 |
off the top rope to claim potential AOTY
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| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | January 19th 21 |
So much of this sounds right up my alley, a black metal played as noise hardcore. But plenty of times I found myself having a hard time distinguishing some songs from one another. And somewhere midway through any album's shortcomings just seemed par for the course.
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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. STAFF | December 17th 20 |
So apparently this is post-metalcore. I'd say this is metalcore-y sludge with atmospheric bits, but I guess genre names are specifically created to avoid longass monikers. Notwithstanding these silly considerations, this is, first and foremost, fucking violent. Even the more atmospheric passages (like on "Narrowed in Mirrored Light") only build calm moments to punish you harder. This record wants to harm you, and that might the one characteristic that connects all post-metalcore bands. This one does it by being constantly relentless, which causes the soundscape to vary only too little to my taste. If you want a threatening take on modern sludgy metalcore, go for this.
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| 4.5 superb | Hawks | October 30th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | March 28th 23 |
| 3.0 good | h0rsie | December 12th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | kevbogz | November 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bobshat | October 30th 21 |
| 3.5 great | GodL1ke | September 30th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sally J. | September 20th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | September 18th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Jebull | August 27th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | June 23rd 21 |
| 3.5 great | luetin | January 1st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tranqyl | December 31st 20 |
| 3.0 good | alamo | December 31st 20 |
| 3.5 great | emmny | December 24th 20 |
| 3.0 good | JS19 | December 22nd 20 |
| 3.0 good | Marci | December 21st 20 |
| 3.5 great | Coast | December 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | teamster | December 18th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | XingKing | December 18th 20 |
| 3.5 great | leon486 | December 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | ISeeYou | December 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lassie | December 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jamdbz | December 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | shem | December 17th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Prancer | December 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thibs | December 17th 20 |
| 3.5 great | jesper STAFF | December 16th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | botb | December 16th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Rausku | December 15th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | jmh886 | December 15th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Uzumaki | December 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Apathya | December 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | hesperus | December 13th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | trilo | December 12th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | December 11th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mser94 | December 11th 20 |
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