Album Rating: 5.0
“2.5” clown
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Album Rating: 4.0
Damn, gettin heated in here
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Album Rating: 5.0
Clownin*
Less heat.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I would understand the dislike for this one a lot more if people didn't constantly praise Symbolic at the same time. Like how can you dig the vox and riffs in Symbolic and then suddenly dislike both in this one
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Album Rating: 5.0
@Sabrutin Completely agree. I cannot understand the hard lines being drawn between those two albums either. They both occupy the same higher plane of death metal existence.
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Album Rating: 2.5
"Like how can you dig the vox and riffs in Symbolic and then suddenly dislike both in this one"
I'm sorry but sym just riffs all over this
Over and over and over and over
Vox also aren't bad here, just my least favorite album performance of his.
There is a marked difference in songwriting between this and sym too imo. And that different, arguably more progressive approach here just doesn't land for me
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Album Rating: 5.0
The riffs on this are very different than Symbolic but they are insane
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Album Rating: 5.0
Eh I honestly don't hear the marked difference when Symbolic has stuff like Without Judgement or Perennial Quest which might as well be put in this one
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Album Rating: 5.0
Love both this and Symbolic but I find latter to be more progressive, TSOP's structure, after a bunch of listens, reveals its circularity.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Yeah, saying the difference is more progressive may have been a poor choice of words. I don't quite know how to pen down what feels so different to me. My first time through this record I was honestly scratching my head trying to figure out why I just didn't enjoy this. So I went and threw Symbolic on. By the time it was over, it had become abundantly clear to me. The fog had been cleared. My eyes had been opened.
The
Riffs
The instrumentation is just bland in general though, bar the 10-60 seconds of brilliance per most songs, such as the instances I pointed out on the last page. It just sucks sitting in boredem for 3/4 of a track, getting to headbang enthusiastically for a few seconds here and there, then being right back to zzzz. There's also some definite fluidity issues within a fair number of these songs. Some really jarring transitions
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
TSOP is absolutely more progressive and technical than Sym, no question. that's exactly why I love it so. these riffs aren't your typical riffs but they go hard. nothing heavier than that TOUCH TASTE BREATH riff in "The Flesh..."
best metal album OAT BITCHES!!!!
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Album Rating: 5.0
To me they make perfect sense but I'm not gonna pretend some transitions can't be jarring but idk man Symbolic does them too, see ~2:00 in Misanthrope.
And riff-wise sure maybe there's a bit less dm buzzsaw but it's still killer riff after killer riff for me. Like the verses of To Forgive have two of my fav Death riffs... playing at the same time! (~0:45 onwards)
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Album Rating: 5.0
I just think Symbolic and TSOP are both incredible \m/
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Album Rating: 2.5
^^ Agreed
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Album Rating: 5.0
Every Death is excellent, and Symbolic/TSOP make for the best dual combo
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Album Rating: 2.5
I'd give that to SH/Human
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Album Rating: 5.0
If you love SH that much we're still friends
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Album Rating: 3.0
Everything up to and including Human is better than everything after Human. No Death album is better than Human.
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Album Rating: 4.0
false and true
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Album Rating: 4.0
Can't agree there. ITP >> Human (or any other Death album).
This one is still my least favorite, but it's grown on me a bit more.
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