Album Rating: 5.0

Vaalbara will always be their best. Impulse is my favourite.

Album Rating: 5.0

This and Impulse are on the same level for me, I absolutely love both albums

Album Rating: 4.0

I feel like Andromeda is on par with Impulse and Augment tbh. Despite the kinda crap production.

Album Rating: 5.0

I've often said that Andromeda would be their best if it was as long as Impulse or Augment, with that same production. It's so visceral and melodic

Album Rating: 4.0

Andromeda is probably their shreddiest instrumentally. But I'd compare it (obv different genre) to Counterparts' Prophets, where it's good, but you can definitely tell they're a young band by how much of it feels like a bunch of great individual musical ideas mashed together or stacked back to back, rather than really planned out.



People will disagree on the direction they've taken lately, but I'd say they've objectively come a long way in terms of songwriting.



Even disregarding the production, Andromeda feels pretty unpolished.

Album Rating: 5.0

Andromeda always felt like a Misery Signals album to me tbh. And I do agree that their songwriting had evolved for a while, but now I feel like they took a step back and got stuck there with Drift. Jesse can still write some killer solos, but he's missing the yang to his ying in Alan



Plus with Garrison gone they haven't been too well in the vocal department, that man is irreplaceable

Album Rating: 4.0

I would definitely agree the vocal performance across the board was the weakest part of Drift, but I think taken as a whole, the songs end up being pretty technical metalcore that still makes sense, even for friends of mine who don't listen to heavy stuff, so that was really cool to me.



More finesse, less nonstop intensity and aggression, but that's a stylistic choice that's just going to be divisive...

Album Rating: 5.0

The Artificials lost two members and aren't signed to Tragic Hero anymore, but they're working on a new EP.



Would be cool to see more Garisson guest vox.

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh damn that's unfortunate all around, which members did they lose? And yea more Garrison would be lovely, dude is still the best vocalist to me

Album Rating: 5.0

They lost their other guitarist and drummer, so it's just Alan, Sarah and their bassist Brent. In Alan's words:



"We'll release eps and singles until having a full band is more of a feasible idea. The music industry is changing so we are going to take a new approach and keep truckin'."



Sounds like they weren't making enough back in record sales and/or couldn't support a full band, but at least they're still going to make more music.

Album Rating: 5.0

Damn that's really unfortunate, that other guitarist was really good. Hopefully they can support a full band sometime soon

Album Rating: 5.0

I'd kill to have this lineup again, they really had something special together

Album Rating: 1.0

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Album Rating: 5.0

WHOA ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

This album is fuckin tight

Album Rating: 5.0

Tight like a tiger it's so tight.



Anyone know why the original bassist left? He had some great parts in the s/t EP but unfortunately can't be heard much in the LPs.

Album Rating: 5.0

He quit because he wanted to go to college, which is weird because Garrison was juggling classes and the band pretty well so I don't see why he couldn't as well

What was his GPA tho

Album Rating: 5.0

Good enough to graduate and then leave the band, thus leaving a hole in the band that couldn't be filled



They tried to replace Garrison with more muscles, but Garrison was more than muscles my guy

Album Rating: 5.0

ERRA: We have the meats!