Album Rating: 2.5

Guardian should have been an As Everything Unfolds song, it would fit Charlie's mental vocals very well if they were utilized there. I feel like Poppy is holding back too much in this record overall. Too much dull nu metal / pop core, all the flaws of the last record without its highs it seems.

Album Rating: 2.7

Perfectly said.

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah, it's a shame... I think we have exactly the same opinion of this record lol. Although I wish her vocals were less overproduced. Dying to Forget is pretty cool though. Co-written by the Knocked Loose guitarist I think so that makes sense. The title track however is dreadful...

Album Rating: 2.5

i agree with you fellas. this is fine, but there's nothing that's gonna keep me coming back

Album Rating: 3.5

honestly I might take the best tracks on this, cut off the few I don’t like on negative spaces and just have a good ass album to listen to

Album Rating: 2.5

the breeeee at the end of the t/t is cool

Album Rating: 2.7

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Album Rating: 3.0

most of these songs would sound good in a Dragon Ball AMV (complimentary)

@wildcard havent listened yet but my thoughts were exactly that. there's gotta be at least a few highlights on here, right????

Album Rating: 2.7

Her vocals are a clear highlight throughout for me.

Album Rating: 3.5

Same. She's one of my favorite vocalists. No matter what she's doing she sounds amazing.



That's why it's hard for me to dislike her material even when the music is average.

Album Rating: 2.7

Understandable for sure. I jammed the EAT EP today and absolutely loved it.

Album Rating: 1.0

"Tundra talking like guitar-based music hasn't been solved since like the late 90s."

Very not correct. Guitar-based music is also thriving currently. Artists like Unprocessed, Polyphia, Animals as Leaders, Syncatto took guitar music to greater heights than ever seen before. But my favorite guitar riffs come from Periphery. Nearly 20 years as band and still no other modern djent bands is even able to sniff their caliber on an album like P2. The guitar riffs are mindboggling to this day and the song writing is interesting while also maintaining stark cohesion. I would prefer another band to come along that's like Periphery over another Sleep Token any day. I will say that with no hesitation.

Just because you do things slightly differently doesn't mean djent wasn't made by Meshuggah. Vektor's not doing anything new, they're mixing Voivod, Coroner, and Slayer in a bowl, tuning up the guitar as a gimmick, and then having shrieky vocals to match. It works. There's nothing new, though. Or like something like blackgaze being one of the most recent metal genres... that's metal mixed with non-metal, which is another "innovative" technique but it's not new.

Just because it's solved doesn't mean it's not thriving, btw. But like after Demilich and Gorguts everyone was just kinda playing catchup/reinterpretation for a long-ass time in extreme music? I don't see any new subgenres appearing that aren't existing metal thing + existing nonmetal thing. Hell, even djent to my poor understanding is just Meshuggah with extra prog shit for the most part. Maybe mathcore for like that Car Bomb band idk

Album Rating: 1.0

Modern guitar music has been innovated out the ass in the past 10 years or so. You got Polyphia who blend mathrock with r&b into something completely unique. Then there's Animals as Leaders who introduced thumping. One of the biggest breakthroughs in guitar innovation history. It wasn't created by Meshuggah. No, it was by Animals as Leaders. It evolved djent that step further. Then there's Vildhjarta with thall which innovated djent completely from the ground up to the point it's now it's own sub subgenre. Then there's Syncatto which innovate the style even more with flamenco influence never seen before. Then there's..............

Can't help but notice you keep mentioning blending existing thing with another existing thing... this thumping also is blending two preexisting things, and I'd believe this random post that Vic Wooten did it first. Thall just sounds like post-djent from the few things I sampled.

So like if guitar music isn't solved, where the fuck is the dm/bm titan new extreme sound waiting in the shadows? That's what I mean. Metal really started to bubble in the 80s and it was pushed to the limits in less than 20 years. All that's left is table scraps and mixing leftovers.

Album Rating: 2.7

Band transcends genre, and cultural norms. At their worst, they are a pop band breaking the mold for what is pop in its contemporary form. In an era of pop where songs are only getting shorter, and song structures more simplistic, Sleep Token songs just get longer and more adventurous. The band is barely metal at this point, but I simply don't care. They are genre fluid in its most purist form. No matter what they write, their melodies are always drenched in an undeniable regal divinity.

Album Rating: 1.0

@pyroflare77 it's because bm and dm have completely stagnated and there's nowhere else left for it to innovate. It's been stagnant for the past 20 years. Deathcore bands are left to do the heavy lifting in bm innnovation because current bm artists are fine being complacent and going through the motions. Recycling the same ideas eternally.

Album Rating: 2.7

You don't listen to bm or dm Tundra so you have no clue whether or not they've stagnated lmao. If you knew anything about either genre, you'd know that there's plenty of bands pushing boundaries, but you stick to your djent niche. Thats fine, but stop acting like you're some extreme metal expert.

Just because you don't search for evidence of innovation doesn't mean that's proof there isn't. Blackgaze was mid-00s so that's factually incorrect, too. Think before you speak, punkass.