Album Rating: 3.0
... that's why I said most
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Album Rating: 4.5
My b, just wanted to add good examples
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Yeah just like the music, even the lyrics all have the same themes
Ughhhh the ebb and flowwwwww is exactly what I was thinking of haha. And that fuckin "hyper communication" shit
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Album Rating: 4.5
Language is the Contortionist cashing in on trends and sacrificing their positive attributes
This album is highly regarded as an amazing deathcore opus, one that stands near the pinnacle of the genre's quality. These guys were trailblazers with this release, shame that they changed direction.
They're doing well now tho so I guess it worked out in the end
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Did anybody really expect them to go a different direction after Intrinsic though?
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Album Rating: 4.5
I hoped that that album's lack of success would lead them to a return-to-form
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Album Rating: 3.0
"Did anybody really expect them to go a different direction after Intrinsic though?"
usually when bands get new members, they do
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Album Rating: 4.5
I don't think their new vocalist is that impressive honestly
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Album Rating: 4.0
Lessard's definitely a better clean singer
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Album Rating: 3.0
he could do better, they weren't playing to their full strengths though.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Oh he has the potential I think, but he/the band are not utilizing it.
The cleans on this album fit the sort of space/technological/alien feel. Not necessarily special outside the music, but within it they are effective
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Idk everything felt pretty linear to me, like they'd been slowly fazing out the deathcore and moving in a cleaner, more proggy/post-rock influenced direction.
Plus the lineup change wasn't super drastic, they changed vocalists (to one with better cleans and weaker screams, also hinting at a less heavy direction), one of the guitarists picked up bass and they added a keyboard player. The members who were likely the core songwriters remained intact
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'd say he stepped it up on the Rediscovered stuff.
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Album Rating: 4.5
"Plus the lineup change wasn't super drastic, they changed vocalists"
Vocalist swaps can be pretty major, esp. in this case. Lessard is much much different, for better or for worse.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Well he performed the Exoplanet and Intrinsic songs pretty good live, but I agree that they're heading to a less heavy direction.
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Album Rating: 4.5
It wasn't just that I appreciated the heaviness, but the balance and contrast it struck with the band's more clean progressive sections. Songs like Flourish are the best at showing this.
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Album Rating: 4.5
They could have expanded on this more tho imo.
And honestly I'd take another Exoplanet over Language any day. Wouldn't be as effective, true, but it'd still be solid.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I agree.
I don't hate the new stuff, but this was more interesting and considering this album is deathcore for the most part that speaks volumes about the amount of execution in their experimentation.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Deathcore as a whole has yet to hit its potential, but nobody is willing to push it there.
The genre has its downsides (they're publicized enough), but when it's good it's damn good.
Ascariasis needs to stop being dead and pick up the torch.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'll take another Red Chord album
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