Album Rating: 3.5
Kinda funny how Gore is taken down by its production and this one is raised by it. A song like 'This Link Is Dead' really drags but those bass thumbs in the verses sound so cool, and the instruments sound so massive that I don't even mind the song
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Back half of this record...or lets say, from spell of math onward, saves this album from a normal 4 deftones record XD
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Album Rating: 4.5
Agreed. Headless is awesome.
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Album Rating: 4.5
The little interlude in Headless is one of the most gorgeous little soundscapes these guys have pulled together
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Time to give Ohms its due credit, fellas
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Album Rating: 4.5
I mean damn near everything this band has made is peak.
Ironically I love Gore and Ohms more than a few of their more fan favorite albums… tbh I think I like both more than Around the Fur and certainly Adrenaline and the S/T. private music is pretty easily their best since Koi for me tho.
Hope we get a follow up sooner rather than later, I cannot fucking believe this record is 5 years old. I hope they’re not done and I certainly hope I don’t have to wait until fucking 2030 for anything new from them. Id even be fine with them going the singles route if they don’t feel like dropping a whole new record.
Having said all that I reckon infinite source is probably gonna be the post release single? It’s the only other track they’re playing live…
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Album Rating: 3.5
It became a single upon record release
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Album Rating: 4.5
Oh shit, what up Wolfe? I've been in a post metal mood lately so naturally I thought about you the other day. Hope you're well homie
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Ahah trending
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Album Rating: 3.5
Mid album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Agreed
Edit: oh I thot this was the PM thread lol, I like this one more
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Album Rating: 3.5
I have a love-hate relationship with Radiant City. The chorus is killing the pace of the song.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Man forgot how hard This Link is Dead goes, fucking awesome track
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Album Rating: 4.0
I like Radiant City musically but Chino's 'Where's the ledge' bit annoys me lol
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Album Rating: 3.5
might have to bump this, the last track is fantastic as well and there are barely any duds
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Album Rating: 2.0
There are no outright terrible tracks here, which differentiates it from Gore, but Gore still had high highs, this has… what exactly? Title track is the only one I saved from here. The melodies and intensity both sound neutered on this release. It’s like they completely forgot how to write choruses or implement ambience into their music. Like compare the ambient bits of Mathematics and Pompeji to something like souvenir. souvenir has this really atmospheric closer with emotional payoff. There’s a melody that forms there that’s quietly affecting. On Mathematics they’re just like, “Fuck it, let’s just throw in like 3 minutes of finger snaps, and break it up with the main riff but do nothing with it”. Pompeji’s ambience does more, but it also ends up sounding incredibly nondescript and essentially adds nothing to the track.
This album gets worse over time for me, easily their worst right alongside Adrenaline and Gore. Hard 2–I just gotta find the time to review it, not that none of y’all can neg my reviews ;D
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Album Rating: 5.0
Oof - thought I reached the Ohms appreciation part of the thread and then scrolled down and saw Gyro skewer this album lol oh well, I think it's fantastic
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Album Rating: 3.5
"It’s like they completely forgot how to write choruses or *implement ambience* into their music"
Lost interest at this part
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Album Rating: 4.5
These are some of Chino’s worst choruses but idk man everything else here is fine. The build in Genesis before the final chorus is one of their best moments instrumentally tbh
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Album Rating: 4.5
The choruses aren’t meant to be “pleasurable” in a traditional sense. It’s meant to tell a narrative/message. I respect the experimentation.
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