Album Rating: 5.0

Downers gonna down, boosters gonna boost

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

i'll down u!!

"the riffs are the weakest part and a downgrade from everything else they've done 🙁"

idk the riffs on this are better than on timewave zero at least innit

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

putting you into The Contraption.

Album Rating: 4.5

I just dunno what metric we’re using to say these dm riffs are so much worse than like Starspawn for example. Like, just comparing the t/t from that record to the opener of this one. I probably like Starspawn more but there’s no objective quality that makes it superior, they’re both comparably technical but just different flavors of dm.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

how much yall wanna bet that from here on out the dm is gonna gradually get phased out until they become a totally milquetoast 'prog metal' band

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

"wow hype are you saying everyone who has this, ulcerate, and/or defeated sanity as aoty are all sheep ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)?"



yes because Ulcerate and Defeated Sanity are definitely pandering to the lowest common denominator

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

in the dm world they are

dunno why everyone decides to metric popular bands out of context

Album Rating: 5.0

This album is truly incredible. So glad to see other people mirin' this masterpiece. Been spinning this once a day for a week now. Absolute legends these guys. Three LPs out and three incredible masterpieces in their own way.

Album Rating: 4.0

"yes because Ulcerate and Defeated Sanity are definitely pandering to the lowest common denominator"

As we're now deep in Sput's oh-so-fucking-predictable "3.0" phase in the "album-gets-released-to-overwhelming-response-and-becomes-generally-popular-and-starts-appearing-on-mainstream-end-of-year-'Best-ofs'-so-folks-who-need-to-pepetually-feel-superior-start-pulling-out-words-like-'lowest-common-demoninator'-and-'sheep'" cycle, it's kinda fun (but somehow still vaguely depressing) spectacle.

As I said, we're in the "3.0" stage, where people people who probably got (at least slightly and privately) enamoured in the initial wave, are now having vague sweats that their main source of self-empowerment and esteem is an esotheric taste in music, comes under threat.

As this progresses, the 2s, 1.5s and 1s increase and the backlash is complete. All the while, the band themselves have successfully (somehow) made enough money through their talent (amazingly rare in music, these days) to make a living.

The irony of using words like "sheep", when the folks themselves are a part of the most predictable critical response arc to everything that has ever become popular, EVER, is fucking laughable.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

is stage 3.0 also when paragraph masses of pure cope emerge?

there's only so many reactions one can have it's hardly unpredictable to have all of them realized

*first time meme*

Album Rating: 4.0

^ One thing I give you credit for; Smok, regardless of what you're saying at any given moment, I do believe that you're not particularly following any trends here as such.

I've got more respect for that, TBH.

Album Rating: 4.0

Interesting and seemingly mostly correct analysis, Isis.



Just curious, were you under some kind of influence when you made it?

Album Rating: 4.0

^ Lol! Not really...

Just playing out exactly as I piss-takingly predicted it would when this thread was in its 4.5/5 infancy, informed by having seen many unchanging patterns.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

you cant give me credit in front of eggy it agitates him so

"seemingly mostly" ever with the shorthanded praise

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

"This album is truly incredible. So glad to see other people mirin' this masterpiece. Been spinning this once a day for a week now. Absolute legends these guys. Three LPs out and three incredible masterpieces in their own way."

Yap, starting to think I should also 5 Starspawn

"As we're now deep in Sput's oh-so-fucking-predictable "3.0" phase in the "album-gets-released-to-overwhelming-response-and-becomes-generally-popular-and-starts-appearing-on-mainstream-end-of-year-'Best-ofs'-so-folks-who-need-to-pepetually-feel-superior-start-pulling-out-words-like-'lowest-common-demoninator'-and-'sheep'" cycle, it's kinda fun (but somehow still vaguely depressing) spectacle."

were actually in the phase where people are having aneurysms because posters on a music opinion website have opinions on an album that is popular and post 4 paragraph manifestos on why that is unacceptable

Album Rating: 3.0

^ ^ ^

yeah I have no idea what Isis is on about, because he clearly has no clue what’s happening here at all, lol

Album Rating: 3.0

It also makes absolutely no sense when a lot of the lukewarm naysaying brigade (myself included) have been criticising certain aspects of this release since DAY ONE. This isn’t a response to any popularity, it’s called erm… having a difference of opinion maybe?

Album Rating: 4.0

^ and ^^ Popular album gets backlash.

There, two sentences including this one.