Album Rating: 3.0

Record is a mess without any real highlights in my opinion. It does indeed sounds a bit like a 'stripped back' Periphery, but for me that means they do away with the fun riffs, over-the-top choruses or interesting atmospheres they can build. It's annoying how they do not build on the relatively simple songs they try to write, but always need to put in out of place chuggy heaviness. Title track is probably the best thing on here...



Unlocking sounds like a Leprous cover, or at least, it would sound good as a Leprous song.

Album Rating: 4.5

Don't get some of the hate Blackwall gets, I think its a phenomenal track lmao

after three listens... talk, mr god, everyone dies alone are the only real keepers. additionally, t/t is a nice closer and blackwall is easily their best attempt at these pop tracks. malevolent would be money if not for the kinda awful hook.

the rest is kinda ranging from boring to unlistenable to me. some of those songs have cool individual parts but don't come together all that well. feeling a lot of forced-heaviness here, even on the tracks i like. heaven on high is prob the clearest example, the breakdown is way over the top for what the rest of that song is.

in terms of their regular full length songs, idk what my answer would've been before this album but unlocking is pretty definitively their worst song to me now. i respect spencer for trying a lot of new things on this album, but these vocals were a huge miss for me... and hate saying that after p5 where everyone finally decided to give spencer his flowers.

Album Rating: 3.5

"some of those songs have cool individual parts but don't come together all that well."



this was p5 to me lol

Album Rating: 3.5

inb4 Tundra changes his rating to a 5

I think this album is very divisive which is understandable. I’ve found it to be quite the grower. It went from a 3.5 to a 4 for me (so far) which felt like a huge disappointment initially after PV, which is my favorite Periphery album personally and the band at their most maximalist. So I kinda naturally recoiled imagining them trying to cut the fat but I think it’s been done rather tastefully here. That said, I think a compromise could be found to slip one or two 6+ songs on the next one and hit somewhere in the 50 minute mark to please everyone.

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

This is what happens when they decide to tour with Spiritbox, we get a Spiritbox jr. Thanks Matt.

Album Rating: 3.5

I was pretty indifferent on this first listen, but its definitely growing on me.



Talk is one of their best songs period