Album Rating: 4.0
this ended up growing on me. still prefer the style of the previous two.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Probably my most listened to death metal album of the year
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Album Rating: 4.0
Didn't love hate cult ritual at first but the verse riffs and drumming are fierce
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is actually comically nasty vocally
Phil has always had some of the most outright powerful death gutturals in DxC but this is definitely the most beautiful he's ever been
Also the riffs are even kinda sweet which I always thought was a slight sore spot for Whitechapel
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Album Rating: 3.5
2 songs in, really nice to be hearing some punk riffs and drumming in modern deathcore. It's like all these bands have been allergic do doing this for the last 15 years. Deathcore is supposed to be part hardcore punk after all, it's in the freaking name lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
not really. maybe a few ancient bands did that combo in it's infancy but it's clearly always been metalcore plus death metal. see embodyment.
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Album Rating: 4.0
You could argue metalcore is a punk genre in its early stages. It was the natural progression from crossover stuff in the 80s. I hear a lot of punk influence in Integrity and Earth Crisis' early stuff
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Album Rating: 4.0
it was for sure but that well is never what deathcore drew from even the early bands. embodyment is closer to that but is more drawing from zao.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This might be their best album
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Album Rating: 3.5
Some deathcore bands did draw from that, some pretty notable ones in fact such as despised icon or the red chord. And some lesser known ones like burning skies too. Metalcore itself can also be much more than just melodic death metal with chugged breakdowns, but that's a topic for a whole other discussion
anyhow, this is very solid stuff here but let down a bit by the muddy and compressed production, also doesn't quite measure up to bands like FFAA
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Album Rating: 4.5
I agree about the production, can definitely feel a bit muddy in some of the busier sections.
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Album Rating: 4.0
idk i think this sounds pretty massive
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think the payoff moments/breakdowns all hit extremely hard but I've found with headphones that sometimes the compression really limits the power on the faster, chaotic sections. I think it's almost a necessity to keep things from clipping especially when there's so much going on but it is noticeable at times. Just a nitpick I guess, still a 4.5 album regardless for me
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Album Rating: 3.0
Yeah it's very boxy and overproduced, but I guess it fits this style.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This kicks so much ass. Taking the better songwriting lessons from the last two albums and applying it to their old sound makes this hit so hard.
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Album Rating: 4.0
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I do hope there is a bigger dose of Kin guitar leads and melody on the next one. It seems pretty much everyone agrees the back end of this is the best and that's where they most obviously use what they learned on Kin and The Valley. That's the sweet spot. Hope they embellish it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
The little hints of war metal here are intriguing. I know some of the dudes have mentioned Teitanblood in interviews, it would be cool hearing them dial that influence up just a little bit and see what they could come up with.
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Album Rating: 3.4
War MENtal
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Album Rating: 4.0
I thought they were going to go more that direction when I heard some of the singles before this came out. Album is still awesome but I'm interested to see where they go from here.
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Album Rating: 3.4
Album is good yeah. I much prefer the two that came before it though tbh.
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