Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
My first Converge album and I'm checking these guys out all because of you Sputnik! Going through the 2nd listen of this and I have to agree with soh for the most part.
I like hardcore, but there's very little distinction between the first four tracks and even I started believing that these were meant to be one big track. To me, they're tolerable at best.
I like the drumming on this album and to me, it proves to be the saving grace of this CD. However, I have to agree with soh as it feels that all members are all over the place. I finally understand why people complain about the vocals. This makes Tommy Rogers of Between the Buried and Me sound like Sam Cook or Frank Sinatra. I can appreciate the vocals as being part of the brutality of a band's song structure, therefore the vocals must match the loud, aggressive, hard music played in the background, but this is too much screaming even for me. It's too unintelligible and unenjoyable. The album as a whole is unmemorable as well, but b/c I do love hardcore, I was able to, at the very least, tolerate 9 tracks from this.
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