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Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 21st 2026


128894 Comments

Album Rating: 4.6

OG!

troyofyort
July 21st 2026


380 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Blows my mind Volition is my personal favorite and Fortress is also a 5/5 but insanely overrated in the way that people think all Mario's should be like mario 64 or all Zelda should be like OoT

LeakingFountain11
July 21st 2026


63 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Feels like a very well done blend of their earlier labyrinth-like prog compositions and later conventional sing-along-able style.

MrGlass
July 21st 2026


640 Comments


This album took like 5 listens through for it to fully click but now I'm obsessed. It's so rich and majestic. Probably their most "colorful" album and I think I like it even more than Plimpy

DDDeftoneDDD
July 22nd 2026


23752 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Landed here directly from Kezia back in the days. Since when they become this cheesy?

IntoTheFire
July 22nd 2026


521 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

pretty sure right after kezia (fortress) is when they leaned hard into the cheese lol. i love this though and going by their instagram comments this is almost 100% going to be part of a double album

bowlermicah
July 22nd 2026


283 Comments


"Landed here directly from Kezia back in the days. Since when they become this cheesy?"
Probably when their bassist/lyricist left and the lead singer, Rody, took over writing lyrics. So around Scurrilous.

GreyShadow
July 22nd 2026


8529 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

it blows my mind that fans of Kezia and Fortress that are coming back are surprised by the cheese.



like, musically, theyve ALWAYS been wacky but if we're talking cheese specifically, did yall not any of their old music vids

GreyShadow
July 22nd 2026


8529 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

The Mariner > Grandfather's Axe > Fishhook > Liberty Spike > Mouthpiece > The Orchard atm



top 2 are both at least top 10 level protest, what an album

Feather
July 22nd 2026


11985 Comments


The cheese began with Fortress and never let up.

DDDeftoneDDD
July 22nd 2026


23752 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Not even into Fortress cause I don't know it. Relistened Kezia and it rules af. No vibratos and no tongue in cheek blink 182

troyofyort
July 22nd 2026


380 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

All metal is cheesy tbh if not then its corny for trying to be "hard" or "brutal" or "deep"

troyofyort
July 22nd 2026


380 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Also kezia (and fortress to a lesser extent) were very much products of their time and it sucks because the people who liked those metal movements vs the band itself have always slagged them for doing it different

Ectier
July 22nd 2026


5604 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Ill have to try this again but on a Panopticon kick atm

Confessed2005
July 22nd 2026


8624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I've listened through this a few times and I have to say this is worthy of the same acclaim their first two albums garner.

Insurrection
July 22nd 2026


25135 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

fuck it i gotta bump this. havent stop listening since it dropped

troyofyort
July 22nd 2026


380 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Literally how I am with mostly every pth release.

drasticaction74
July 23rd 2026


1949 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

you think this is good? check out the last record

Epicenter
July 23rd 2026


293 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Grandfather's Axe = The Orchard > The Mariner > Fishhook > Liberty Spike >>>> Mouthpiece > interludes



Honestly surprised they chose Mouthpiece as the lead-off single when every song on here is much better than it.

Storm In A Teacup
July 23rd 2026


47406 Comments


The singer is cheesey af just outside of their music. Band could be cheesier if he had his way lol



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