Album Rating: 3.0

In some cases, a new vocalist can single-handedly induce major style changes in a band with respect to prior albums, that can "make" or "break" how the band looks to its seasoned fans.



I'm aware of at least one more recent example that follows the pattern, a band (which I won't mention herein, because I have done so elsewhere, discreetly) whose current state, although solid, is nowhere near its past one.

great review!
I didn't think this band was good before, it was very generic, so I had to give this a chance, listened to a couple of songs and I find it to be better than before.
Might have to give this a full spin.

Just a gentle reminder that "I burn like fire" is not an alliteration. Are you trying to call it a simile?

Album Rating: 3.0

Review is a fun read but I feel like you're taking offense to it in a way that feels a bit weird. You accuse the record of a lot of things that boil down to assumed intent on your end.



"whilst trying to parade around as if they're making some form of deep artistic statement"



"uses every cheap trick to try and sound far more profound than it is"



"The disparity between attempting to cover deep, serious subjects with absolutely no conviction"



This all just seems like your very personal read on it. You can't really claim any of this is actually true. It's an extremely cynical take on what could be a very genuine attempt from the band. It's fine if you don't like it. I don't care about the rating. I enjoy a good negative review. However, this specific angle of attack feels both personal and lacking in anything real to back it up.

Album Rating: 1.5

Nah that interlude definitely fits the bill for the second quote. The poor music videos also help the first and third ones. You'd have no idea Hellbound was about some breakup or being manipulated by a lover or whatever when the music video is just him doing a stripper dance in front of a tree or a door. And there's a miniature star or something. These are all very rich in symbology and philosophers will wonder what they're about for decades to come.

Album Rating: 1.5

Other supplementary evidence is they started as a Mglacore band and are now a trendycore band so they were always trend chasing and, as the summary says, this is the mask off moment.

Album Rating: 1.5

temu misery signals, this

Album Rating: 3.8

LMAOOOOO

Album Rating: 1.0

I know YouTube comments aren’t a great metric to judge on anything, but yes, many fans in there seem quite convinced that this is very deep and profound music, lyrically as well.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah man YouTube comments are a horrible gauge for that lmao, that fuckin PRESIDENT band is a goddamn gold mine, here, hold up I’ll be right back

Album Rating: 3.8

YouTube comments SUCK.

Album Rating: 3.5

“So, like every Sleep Token fan got this in their recommendations? You didn't find it, it found you”

ya it’s called an algorithm dumbass, they saw you like that dogshit so they sent you this other dogshit



“So we all collectively just here for the debut of a banger. Incredible to say we've been here since the beginning”

So have millions of other people, it’s not a cool or very exclusive club



“Whoever the marketing manager for this group is deserves an award, a debut release is TRENDING and it’s not even a Pop track. I have to know how this has been accomplished 🤯”

Money, and it literally is pop just with guitars making the djun djun djun sound sometimes



“I first heard this with Bad Omens and cannot stop playing it. Definitely speaks to me.”

Of course it does. How couldn’t it with lyrics like

“Oh, Father, I can't hear You yet

I wanna feel You near, it's suffocating

Scare them, scare them, scare them

Make them worship

Who is Christ Jesus?

He is the true lamb of sacrifice”



just brilliant and so deep



I wasn’t even looking for anything like that in particular, just some of like the top 20 comments

Unfortunately, the vast majority of "metal fans" eat that shit up lmao

Album Rating: 3.5

It’s sad man. And when a band tries something even a little left field, Avenged Sevenfold for example, they’ll shit all over it and complain. I’m not saying everyone needs to love Life is But a Dream, but fans have not stopped bitching about it almost three years on. I went to a bar after their concert and three dudebro looking guys came in trashed and all three of them would not stop bitching about them playing new material. AND some of my coworkers at the bar I work at who know I like the band even had people coming that were complaining about it too smh.



Mainstream metal is in a horrible place when people can’t even handle songs like Game Over or Mattel by fucking Avenged Sevenfold… guys these songs are not that weird or “experimental”.

Sigh. I guess we're calling stuff "gay" again? Sorry, but that is a clowny way to respond to a well-written dissection of a bad album. Do better.

Album Rating: 1.5

If only there was some kind of thread that connects messages so such a thing would be a hypothetical response to another hypothetical, written in such a way that intentional ironies are present...

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

yes walrus I meant simile lol, thanks, I'll edit that later



"Review is a fun read but I feel like you're taking offense to it in a way that feels a bit weird. You accuse the record of a lot of things that boil down to assumed intent on your end."



yep, it's my review, that's how the album came across to me. I wouldn't say I took offense mind you, but you're entitled to find my review weird in the same way I found this album to be a pile of shit. that's how responses to creative mediums work. I wrote this in 20 minutes on my lunch at work, it's not designed to be a serious analysis but it's true I do take this sort of stuff more seriously than most but I'm entitled to do that. pointing out my own opinion to me seems oddly redundant as I lay it out pretty thick in the review anyway lol.



if you come to a different conclusion that's cool, me and hawks are best buddies and he loved this one - we've been laughing about it healthily in private and cracking jokes. this was just fun to write cus it hit basically all of my personal pet peeves for this kinda record all at once so it's fair to say it's a bunch of cumulative feelings about what i find aggravating about quite a lot of bands in the scene rn. for the record though i don't think there's anything wrong with assuming the intent of an artist based on what's presented.



but if you ask me anyone who truly felt this way wouldn't fucking write like this and i'll die on this hill.

Album Rating: 1.0

There’s a band called President?

chipmunk bro you'd love them. they also wear masks so you know the music is legit.

Album Rating: 1.0

I’ve actually never heard of them ever. They must be super obscure and esoteric right, Mr. Calc? 😆