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meshuggah is just barebones djent, boring, it's better with more components

Great thread y'all

Time to dive into this for fun.

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‘meshuggah is just barebones djent, boring, it's better with more components‘

The idea that more is better is a flawed mindset that helps breed unfocused hodgepodge nonsense such as this tbh 🤔… a symptom of the modern generation’s inability to concentrate for more than five minutes perhaps.

How about exercising restraint and carefully crafting a set of cohesive ideas instead? Whatever happened to that?

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how is Chokehold, The Apparition, Rain unfocused exactly

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sleep lolken

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sleep lolken

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so do you guys normally like American idol vocals over distorted guitars or is this just a one off 5

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Should have renamed them to Sleep maker

"The idea that more is better is a flawed mindset that helps breed unfocused hodgepodge nonsense such as this tbh 🤔… a symptom of the modern generation’s inability to concentrate for more than five minutes perhaps."

there isnt anything wrong particularly with a maximalist and widely encompassing approach, but it has to be one of two things to work - either constrained within a structure in which the artist is familiar and can use to build new influences upon strongly, or a willingness to step relatively free of their past ideas and truly delve deeply into those new influences unrestrained. the problem with stuff like this is that it can't decide whether it wants to do the former or the latter, and ends up achieving neither. it simultaneously blasts you with scatterbrained bits and pieces of influences outside their main genre but without any thought as to how to make it work with their original sound, or whether those are the actual pieces they should be taking at all. it utilises a familiar base of modern alt metal/djent, which itself only really registers at serviceable - there are many bands who do that sound better even if im not a fan of it much if at all- so it doesn't satisfy the criteria of having a good enough base to work off of, but also fails to embrace the actualy compelling components of what they're pulling from outside that space, leading to that kind of gimmicky awkwardness that feels ingenuine and there for the sake of being there.

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Willing to bet that some member of Imagine Dragons is secretly in this band

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"Tbh Johnny just seems to hate everything that's popular and "mainstream". "

honey i listen to more pop music in a week than you have heard tolerable records in your life

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I don´t think I have ever knowingly heard a Imagine Dragons tune in my life. What I do know is that I have been spending my weekend with this, the new The Ocean and the new Khanate albums, and find them all great, all different, all of them for different times and moods.



Music really is an amazing thing, and these last few weeks have been particularly awesome in heavy music, and life´s too short to enjoy only one aspect of it.



On the other hand, I love seeing a record being as divisive as this one is, they are sure doing something right. That´s what great art should lead to happen. The middle of the road is a bore.

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Johnny loves Harry Styles

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one direction >>>>> sleep token, calling it now

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Oh totally agreed Sint, maximalism in itself isn’t a weakness, it totally depends on how it’s applied. Like you say in this case the ideas are so confused that it doesn’t satisfy that goal, nor that of a more stripped-back approach. It kind of ‘does both’, yet ultimately achieves neither.

Anyway, nice summation of where this falls short. Pos.

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Ascensionism: begins with slow ballad > trap beat > euphoric riff moment > breakdown > circle back to ballad moment > culmination moment ending with all components as one

Just an example of what makes it work for me, the ideas seem scattered at first, but by the end everything culminates beautifully

is this an emotional affair?

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Musically it do be hitting pretty emotionally if you, I'll say it again, close your eyes and feel the magic.



If you're looking for any kind of emotional depth lyrically though and you've emotionally aged past 15 you're probably gonna have a bad time.

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The themes are complex, nuanced and shrouded in mysticism - so it’s a difficult album to penetrate when I just want to know how the guy feels and connect on this basis.

1/5. Would not recommend to emotional people.

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he feels like ur a good girl and he wants to make u bad