It's the post rock elements, the builds and dynamic shifts (however infrequent) that really make Sunbather unique from most blackgaze stuff.

Album Rating: 4.5

that ghost bath record is 1 good song and 40 minutes of slow, boring garbage

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

If they rush the next record and half-ass it as much as this one I swear to god





I wonder if they'll put out the next one next year

Album Rating: 4.5

honestly, trying to speak unbiased, i feel like their next album will be a disaster. at this point they have to compete with trying to write music that is faithful to their own artistic vision and trying to write something that will keep them as popular as they've been



i'll probably love it anyway though

Disaster? Pretty much what they have here anyway. This album is incredibly boring.

Album Rating: 4.0

I really really wish people wouldn't say ignorant shit like "I could've written this."



Then... Where's your fuckin album? Where's your shitty deafheaven album or even your worse ghost bath album?



This album might not be the second coming of God like people wanted it to be, but holy fuck that statement is one of the most asinine and ignorant things anyone can say about art, regardless of how they subjectively feel about it. Starless might be the most talented fucker here if he can churn out stuff like this on command.



Or wait not he's just another semi anonymous asshole on the Internet.

Album Rating: 4.5

i got chewed out for writing that at the end of an emmure review



i kind of agree, it's meaninglessness by way of hyperbole, and not really an effective method of subjective dismissal

Album Rating: 2.0

"Starless might be the most talented fucker here if he can churn out stuff like this on command."



if i was in the studio i would have convinced them that the baby blue solo was a horrific idea.

oh my god i can write notes, how dare you call this art!!!1!11!11?

The entire approach to writing this album was a horrific idea.

Album Rating: 4.5

that's fairly presumptive

Not exactly. In interviews leading up to the album they discussed a lot about how they were excluded from metal circles, derided for being twinkly and pretty when they were actually trve metal, according to their definitions of what that is. They talked about how this album would be different, would take a more "metal" approach and this idea of proving the "haters" wrong is a terrible approach to pretty much anything, writing an album included.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

this has some of their twinkliest moments ironically, still a solid album

I'm not trying to get hung up on the old argument of what "true metal" is or anything, just trying to illustrate this dynamic of negative response to criticism - criticism they should have ignored - having too much of an influence in how the album developed. This is my interpretation based on what they said and how they reacted to the criticism, but given how this album turned out, I don't think it's terribly far off.

fuck tha haterzzz

You love the haters man I know you do. You love them all.

who am i kidding, i love everyone

Album Rating: 3.0

You love us all

Album Rating: 2.0

this is better than waking the cadaver for sure tho

Album Rating: 4.5

i just looked through a few interviews and i don't see that sentiment at all - can you substantiate that?