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Impervious
December 21st 2015


1213 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I like the way the track before leads into "Love?".

DoctorJackal
December 27th 2015


325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

What are you doing in my face?

XfingTheSullen
January 3rd 2016


5639 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I don't really like the lyrics to songs like Love honestly. All songs that first bash on love to finally conclude that it is after all the best thing ever. Like Twisted Sister's "Love is for suckers". Lol

someguest
January 3rd 2016


30522 Comments


I think that's the point. He realizes he has been suckered.

Flugmorph
March 7th 2016


35489 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Colors relate to numbers relate to SOUND

relates to FORM relate to WAR relate to SEX

relates to HEALING

Relates to ALL GOD VI-BRA-TION!!!!

Flugmorph
March 7th 2016


35489 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

god i love the middle section of love? so much when it suddenly gets melodic

jemaiseyeti
March 13th 2016


403 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Probably my favourite album of all time, amazing from start to finish.

Thibs
March 13th 2016


3119 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

def up there

jemaiseyeti
March 14th 2016


403 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Production-wise one of the best albums too.

BenThatsMyJamin
March 15th 2016


4020 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

DON'T TELL ME SHIT

DON'T YOU TELL ME FUCKING SHIIIIIT



Im not a massive fan of the production on this. Guitars are mixed way too low and drums too high, plus much prefer the unrestrained ferocity of city production over this compressed sound. Shitstorm would have sounded even heavier on city

BigPleb
March 15th 2016


65808 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I CANT EVEN EAT



AND I CANT EVEN FUCKING PISSSS!!!!

KILL
March 15th 2016


81611 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

its funny cos city is more compressed than this

kick drums are ridiculously loud on this tho yea but it crushes

BigPleb
March 15th 2016


65808 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Both have their pros and cons.



Kick drums on here distract at times but overall the production is too damn meaty to deny m/



City feels pretty thin at some points, especially the beginning of All Hail the New Flesh all the sounds mesh together into a pretty annoying wall of noise.



Songwriting on City is pretty much flawless tho so can't complain.

KILL
March 15th 2016


81611 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i dno that wall of noise is pretty much needed for the transition into the perfection of that held scream



one of the best moments in metal ever

BenThatsMyJamin
March 15th 2016


4020 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Swear this is more compressed? I'm no production expert but aren't parts like the intro of shitstorm (that massive bass swell or whatever it is right before the kick drums come in) super compressed?

City just sounds more 'free' to me and thus heavier.



But pleb how can you not like the wall of sound?!! Sounds so sick

KILL
March 15th 2016


81611 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

nah, its def compressed but not to the extend of city



heres the DR values for SYL http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=strapping+young+lad&album=

InFlamesWeThrash666
March 15th 2016


10631 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The wall of sound works very well imo

BenThatsMyJamin
March 15th 2016


4020 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't really understand that link lol. So it seems my idea of compression is completely wrong then. How would you define it and how can you identify it in music?

BenThatsMyJamin
March 15th 2016


4020 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Also ghost has bad ratings on that website, but is amazingly produced. Is there no correlation between production quality and those ratings?

KILL
March 15th 2016


81611 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

basically the lower the number the more compressed it is, the higher the number the more it rules. most modern metal is compressed as fuck and it ruins everything but for bands like strapping and devin it doesnt bother me so much as it kinda goes with the wall of sound cept accelerated evolution that shit its just too damn loud.



read this bro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression



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