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"Just feels like they don’t have a unified vision anymore. Just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks."



The crazy thing is that this IS their unified vision.



"yeah funny enough i have seen a lot of places that are saying this is their best work post reunion by a mile"



Post reunion I could see it, this album has a lot of the faults the previous album did too but if you f with that one you'd no doubt f with this. I think its just what the kids are into nowadays tbqh.

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@Concubinary I'd say you are right.



It doesn't surprise me that the band is going in this direction, considering they've said post reunion that BMTH (probably the most popular metalcore/core adjacent band ever) is one of their biggest influences, and the fact that this band themselves was near the top of the core scene in terms of popularity before the first break-up. Define the Great Line debuted at fucking #2 on the Billboard 200, and LITSOS was #8. These guys were HUGE, and it makes sense that they might try to recapture that former glory (and of course, financial success. Metal bands gotta eat too lol). You can't really do that without understanding what works in the current time period. Music has changed quite a lot since the mid 2000s.

“hot take tim has honestly never been that amazing at writing riffs anyway. i love me some fuckin riffs but i was revisiting the big three all weekend and thats never really been whats made this band special. hes always written simple parts and they aint that different than they are here”

What in Tarnation is this slander???? I mean Tim has never been shreddy freddy that’s not his thing but he wrote amazing unconventional guitar parts for years. Gonna assume you mean not like “riffing” though from the perspective of like crazy leads and such

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yeah exactly lol hes very much built his own style off of his own admitted pretty limited skill level so he makes a lot of high impact parts that work very well without being terribly intricate at all, but its never really the focus of their songs for me the way their drumming, synth work or vocal work are



weird comparison but hes like the peter buck of metalcore in his appeal

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Totally agree onionbubs

Album Rating: 3.5

idk I always felt like the importance of riffs is sometimes overstated in album quality when it comes to certain subgenres. it feels like for some people, everything else from the vocal performance to the melodies to the drumming etc. doesn't matter - if the riffs are "bad" (e.g: too simple) it's a bad album to them - ex: bfmv's gravity which actually has gotten me through a lot of stuff mentally

I think it typically correlates pretty heavily with the genre. Most people do want some form of riffs in metal even if the definition of riff across the subgenre varies

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm just like "simpler guitar parts don't have to be a bad thing" if it's an album where something like vocals are meant to take a more prominent part. shoehorning in a bunch of intricate thrash licks may actually detract from the point if it wasn't built from the ground up on those licks. it'd be like "wtf is this techy riff doing here" if you just stick something in with no regard to how it fits in the piece

simple riffs are often the best, they don't have to be technical. like anyone can play sabbath riffs but they still absolutely rip. just gotta be memorable really. riffs are integral to pretty much every metal subgenre imo.

tim made some awesome riffs for Changing of Times

obv this is 20 years removed but the hunger isn’t there. that’s what happens to all bands, no hunger. Except for Aaron’s fatass.

Album Rating: 3.5

isn't Aaron competing in the 200 pound weight class in a BJJ tournament lmao? if he's fat i'm fat bc i dont even think im his height yet I'm close to 200 myself

you mean the Burger faJitas and Jalapenos contest then yea

Album Rating: 3.5

i was trying to find his weight to see if the fat jokes had credence in reality and all Google gave me was his weight class for a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament

(granted, i cannot confirm this information as it's the damn AI telling me this)

The sputlore Aaron is fat jokes mostly surround the fact his weight has seemingly fluctuated over the years and bloc started making lots of fat jokes about him and it stuck indefinitely

Album Rating: 3.5

i keep forgetting this site has lore still lmfao i thought that type of stuff died when mx abandoned us

bloc def has his tendrils up in this bitch after 15 years lmfao

You give me like 140-150 vibes venin no way you’re pushing 200

Album Rating: 3.5

Scale just read 189 for me so I'm actually a little lower than I've been the past bit. Been meaning to shed some pounds but I got lazy when the pandemic hit and erased all of my 2018-to-early 2020 diet progress LOL I was like 155 at some point in mid 2019

Maybe the extra walking I've been doing has been paying off?

Album Rating: 2.0

i can't make any aaron's fat jokes as l too am a portly gentleman

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