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bloc
March 19th 2018


70880 Comments


Aka natural

SteakByrnes
March 19th 2018


31061 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Is that like dragon fruit?

bloc
March 19th 2018


70880 Comments


Man that name is so epic for a food. Never tried it before though

SteakByrnes
March 19th 2018


31061 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Yea dragon fruit is pretty bland, it's like a lesser kiwi

Piglet
March 19th 2018


8559 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

it good for certain things tho

Tundra
March 19th 2018


10740 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Ancestral rules, might be even better than this one tbh

SteakByrnes
March 19th 2018


31061 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

We're talking about fruit here

Rowhaus
March 19th 2018


7188 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

does this rule?

SteakByrnes
March 19th 2018


31061 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

yee

Rowhaus
March 19th 2018


7188 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

old nothing goes hard

Dinosaur
March 19th 2018


1388 Comments


Dagon fruit

Dedes
Contributing Reviewer
March 19th 2018


11973 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

"It's a trend with modern dm bands it seems. Probably not the most pleasing trend but it exists."

More so Prog Death and Tech Death. I think that music like this somewhat benefits from being more mechanical but maybe not this album in particular.

Rowhaus
March 19th 2018


7188 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

the solos r pretty shweet

Adabelle
March 19th 2018


4425 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Well this is a conundrum, it's not very often I listen to something and come out of it having no idea whether I liked it or not because feelings were so mixed about the whole thing



Gonna give it some more time over the next week or so and see how it digests

supremejelly
March 19th 2018


1264 Comments


This is pretty good on first listen but in terms of new DM, new Slugdge is better than this

MarsKid
Emeritus
March 19th 2018


21057 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Oh for sure, Slugdge beats this by a pretty sizeable margin imo. It's got the leads and memorable riffs this doesn't have but should, had they not turned to chugging more than half the time.



It's a bit jarring, having heard prog/tech death albums I believe are much more innovative, yet they get ignored or just branded as wank or a junz fest. Yet this gets away with it? And that's not to say this isn't great in its own right, but the receptions I've witnessed for different albums appear contradictory at the moment.

Madbutcher3
March 19th 2018


3198 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

i think this isn't actually technical enough to warrant such a compressed production job. it doesn't feel that intricate so you don't really get any needed clarity out of it

it's also not dumb or junzy enough to warrant the full deathcore junz job production so it's kinda stuck in no man's land



and yeh maybe i'm particularly harsh on this one cus i've been jamming Horrendous for a fair bit of the last week and Anata before that. this just seems so average and plain in comparison to what i'd consider the better efforts of the genre

Madbutcher3
March 19th 2018


3198 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Well a compressed production job results in the dynamic range of each instrument being a bit lower, which can help make some more twisty intricate riffs have equal volume so be a bit clearer



It's not ideal but it's tolerable on less sparse sounding records, like Paradogma or something. Or even the new Slugdge which has similarly low dynamics on the guitars and drums but is denser overall and faster

Madbutcher3
March 19th 2018


3198 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

yeh i agree and that's a knock against those albums

but if we're gonna have the annoying brickwalling i think it works even worse for some albums than for others. i think it's especially bad here and more tolerable on others

SteakByrnes
March 19th 2018


31061 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

I'll brickwall you



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