Album Rating: 4.0

I mean it's not 100% the most cohesive thing I've ever heard, but that makes it bad?? Some songs are more gazey, some are straight heavy, and some blend the two wonderfully. If every song had screamy verses and singy choruses then that's what we would be complaining about right now instead

Album Rating: 5.0

But in cases like these, its a phenomenal album

Album Rating: 4.0

ngl this came off like a playlist of their favourites at first cuz it’s 2020 and ADHD spotify listeners change songs every 3 minutes



but that’s a reaching generalization and I like this for the changeups since that kept me on my toes to hear what they were going for. what they go for sounds like they’re changing momentum on most songs and keeping the audience at attention since this translates better live. the synths and soundtrack-like samples I appreciate cuz that’s exactly what Deftones would do if Delgado had more fuckin imagination.

Album Rating: 2.7

There's having influences and there's being derivative and I think the line is where you just slap musical passages together instead of coming to some kind of coherent synthesis. If they keep developing their sound they're going to make some stellar material but this isn't it.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

F I G H T !

Album Rating: 2.0

Oh, I'm sure it's gonna sound sick live.



But yeah, what dadkf said

Album Rating: 4.0

metalcore’s been around for too long to use the derivative argument



it’s 2020 and music’s been around for too long to use the derivative argument



it’s fine if it’s not for you but this isn’t hard to wrap your head around on how the songs move. you want structure? it’s on here whether you think so or not.

Album Rating: 4.0

idk, songs like New Faces and Screaming are super coherent and have unique identity imo. Couldn't name one other band that has songs that sound like those.



Also worth noting that this critique clearly doesn't cross genre lines, because there were at least 15 black-post-folk-gaze-metal albums in 2019 that were essentially carbon copies of each other yet each one hailed as a masterful work of art. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of that shit, but if we're going to pretend that being derivative makes an album suck then most modern black metal albums are heaping piles of dung

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

well...fuck you too butt. (replying to your avi subs)

Album Rating: 4.0

what is it :-[

wolfe slamming his engorged todger on the table, damn near split the thing in twain

Album Rating: 2.7

most modern black metal albums are heaping piles of cow shit tho.

Album Rating: 2.0

Black metal, like metalcore, is one of the most oversaturated subgenres in existence, agreed.



Only difference is, the metalcore scene has hardly produced any new exciting acts since god knows when. Name at least one band that's as consistent and good as, say, Converge and TDEP.

Album Rating: 2.0

But I guess as long as indie folk exists, the crown of shit will never be passed down to another subgenre in any scene

Album Rating: 2.7

@Relinquished, why would a genre existing for a hot minute mean you can't dislike something for being unoriginal?

Album Rating: 4.0

TDEP is dead, long live TDEP



but yea they’re defunct as fuck and far as I’m concerned their legacy lives through this mess cuz not like DEP cared about structures either. support what’s around instead of tearing it down, that’s what Converge has been doing for decades.

Difference is that indie folk will exist for as long as people continue to write lyrics whereas metalcore's days are numbered by the mosh pit's expiry date
Place your bets on metalcore surviving indie folk...3...2...1

Album Rating: 4.0

"Name at least one band that's as consistent and good as, say, [most highly revered band of said genre]"



lol, okay then

"cuz not like DEP cared about structures either"
Idk, true to a point for CI, but their final three + MM had lean songwriting chops imo

Album Rating: 2.0

Says johnny who 1.5'd that shitty mount eerie album that has nothing to it besides the lyrics. And don't get me wrong, I completely agree with the score.



TDEP handled the transitions much better than any band trying to emulate their sound atm