Album Rating: 5.0

Why is it a 0.5. Here comes the joke response.

Album Rating: 0.5

Because it sucks. Pretty simple.

Album Rating: 5.0

Why.

Album Rating: 0.5

Because it has that overcompressed modern core/djent production that is way too clean and twinkly for its own good and is overly generic like most music of this ilk. Just not my thing at all. Forget who rec'd this to me tbh.

I can see people hating this one for sure. I like parts of it, but it really has the '10s genericore sound all over it haha

Album Rating: 5.0

"Because it has that overcompressed modern core/djent production that is way too clean and twinkly for its own good and is overly generic like most music of this ilk. Just not my thing at all. Forget who rec'd this to me tbh."

But you like ERRA?

Bad band yeah

Album Rating: 0.5

Tundra bro, I gave Erra's newest album a 0.5 as well.

Album Rating: 5.0

You like older ERRA, though, which is very similar to this album. Its production is overly "sterile" too.

Album Rating: 0.5

I do dig older Erra indeed. Idk, most of this stuff just misses for me, this being one album that definitely misses imo.

Watching in real time Tundra try to snag Hawks in a gotcha is like watching a dude play Whack-a-Mole with a blindfold and the mallet clutched in his teeth.

Every time I think about listening to Northlane, I just go listen to '09-'10 era Sumerian/Mediaskare bands instead.


The cleans especially just ruin this for me.

Album Rating: 0.5

LMAO CHRISTBAIT!!!

Album Rating: 5.0

This album is peak djentcore. It masters "chaotic cohesion" perfectly. It puts the riffs first, which is a rarity in modern albums of this kind. The vocals, vocally and lyrically, are approached with a great amount of conviction, to me personally. It's one of the main reasons it's risen above ERRA for me.

Album Rating: 5.0

Try Silent Planet - Everything Was Sound

Album Rating: 0.5

I'll give it a go. Polaris is still easily my favorite band that plays this style. Not even a contest for me.

Tundra: You like Northlane?

Hawks: Um, they're okay.

Tundra: Their early work was a little too sterile for my taste. But when Singularity came out in 2013, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to ERRA, but I think Northlane has a far more bitter, cynical sense of djent.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'd consider Polaris far more generic than this album. I don't find it much close in that regard. The structures here don't feel very predictable. Whereas with Polaris, it's uber generic. I struggle to listen to that band anymore honestly. They just spam their clean vocal hooks like no one's business. His cleans have never stood out to me much, and then I realised why. It sounds so cliche'd pop punk vocals over metalcore instrumentals.

Album Rating: 0.5

Ahhhhh, I couldn't disagree more tbh. The Mortal Coil is by far by favorite album in this style. I love his cleans a lot, always have.

Not sure who you're trying to convince here, but don't you dare throw shade on our lost KING Ryan Siew's work.

Guy was shredding BoO covers at 14 on youtube before you ever started offering unsolicited justification for your music tastes.