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Hawks
Staff Reviewer
February 8th 2025


116666 Comments


Cause it blows.

veninblazer
February 8th 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hawks...

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
February 8th 2025


116666 Comments


Venin...

Titan
February 8th 2025


26546 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i am a little surprised that you don't dig some of their material, Hawks

veninblazer
February 8th 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

what made you decide all bands like this were terrible though? super talented musicians and honestly there's only so much you can do with standard formulas/time signatures so I have no issue with a band going a little more out there and progressive

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
February 8th 2025


116666 Comments


Its just not my style. I find 99% of it cheesy as fuck and super cringeworthy. Their talent is mostly evident yes but it sounds messy to me and overall directionless. I'm talking about the genre as a whole. Just my personal feelings. There are some exceptions of course.

ConcubinaryCode
February 8th 2025


8139 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Metal is inherently kinda cheesy and cringe.

jrlikestodance
February 16th 2025


6851 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Hawks you might like Alaska. I know it prob won't sway you but it doesn't have nearly as much prog cheese as everything after and the progressive elements compliment their metalcore sound well on that album. This is probably my favorite of their full on prog era. Haven't really connected w anything post Parallax I

Pikazilla
February 17th 2025


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

band got super shite after this tbh

ConcubinaryCode
February 17th 2025


8139 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Parallax 1 was great. After that i kinda agree

jrlikestodance
February 17th 2025


6851 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yup Parallax 1 was awesome. Band got way too indulgent on later records for my liking

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
February 17th 2025


17261 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

coma was so boring i didn't check out the others, might do that sometime

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
February 17th 2025


116666 Comments


Hawks you might like Alaska.

Alaska is a hard 1 agreed.

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
June 28th 2025


17261 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

revisited and still kind of feel the same way as i did back in the day. very much in two halves for me here. mirrors is a gorgeous little opener and obfuscation and disease are two of their best. firing on all cylinders and a great continuation of colors. outro solo on obfuscation is incredible. these two are still heavy as fuck with some dope riffs but has great transitions into the clean sections. the first clean section in disease is so porcupine tree, i love it so much. the bassy smooth part at the end. that swing part with the organ keys that sound like ghost revs. top 5 btbam song.



then fossil genera starts. kind of an irritating intro section and definitely one of their weaker songs. i fail to remember much of it. and swim to the moon i admire the attempt is simply way too long. great album but i do miss some of the heavier tech death riffin and experimentation of colors. that really was their peak of style mashing to me. fun to revisit though, lets see how parallax holds up next.

botb
June 28th 2025


19820 Comments


Swim to the moon is just worse white walls

Titan
June 28th 2025


26546 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hawks you might like Alaska.



Alaska is a hard 1 agreed.





LMAO

Spec
June 28th 2025


41435 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This and Alaska are all ya need.

jrlikestodance
June 28th 2025


6851 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed Spec



Hop into the BTBAM self titled thread if y'all wanna see something crazy

botb
June 28th 2025


19820 Comments


That remaster fucks

Emim
June 28th 2025


38551 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"This and Alaska are all ya need."



If by this you mean silent circus then agreed hard



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