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what have i done

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'Its overrated only in the sense that its considered the best Death album when the correct answer is The Sound of Perseverance'



i don't find tsop to be much better



'The thing about language is that one cannot dictate reality itself by saying it is so. By stating that the sky is red like apples and blood, instead of blue like the ocean, would not actually make the sky red.'



eh mundane philosophy no query here



'Adjacently, by stating over and over that you believe an album is obnoxious does not actually make it obnoxious and unfortunately says a lot more about yourself than about the album.'



not necessarily the album itself but a lot of riffs seem purposely bent out of shape to force your attention with an awkward cacophony. if saying such riffs are obnoxious reflects on my own obnoxiousness i've perfectly fine with that



'It is about the subjective experience of course, however, when you say things like "This album is boring" you ignore the history of tech-death/progressive death metal,'



indeed i couldn't care less about the history when judging the sound. am i supposed to auto-5 this just because it's historically significant? in that case it must be a mortal sin for anyone to dislike beethoven etc. in any case all the sounds on this album are mere emulations of sounds presented much more effectively through earlier efforts the likes of coroner and early gothenburg etc.



'when you say things like "There is no death metal here", you show your sheer ignorance of genre boundaries.'



ah, ignorance, that catch-all term. on the contrary, i say there's no death metal here because indeed not a piece on this album can in any justifiable sense be termed death metal.



'This seems like it is controversial on purpose to amass a crowd at your disposal instead of looking at the merits of the music fairly.'



controversial on purpose i would agree with, since my main motivation in writing this is to bring some sense to an otherwise absurdly praised album whose adherents intimidate any potential dissenters with an iron fist.



to be sure i expected this to be review bombed, though whether people want to amass or not is completely up to them. furthermore i always look at the merits of music fairly. in fact to me it seems the vast majority of people do not look at this album fairly, merely praising it on face of Death's general prestige and supposed originality.

sir this is a wendys

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'Agreed and I wasn't going to weigh in but just on the last line, what difference does it make if Death at this stage of their career played OSDM or progressive DM? It's some version of death metal. And to question if this is metal at all is baffling. What else is it?'



no difference in the sense they can do whatever they want, a lot of difference when i'd rather have something improving upon sbg, leprosy, or human. to me this isn't death metal in the slightest and some users on here will even vehemently defend its other-genreness. similarly the slow, simple riffs, clear high-pitched vocals, and happy-go-lucky high-tuned melodies with only occasions of thrashy heaviness put this near the border. how about derpingaroundinthestudioplayingrandomsectionswithnogeneralcoherencewithoccasionalboomboomstokeepoldfanshappypostindustrialexperimentalheyweredeathanddosuperspecialshithardrock?



'I think it would be appropriate to say this review is generic and annoying.'



i wouldn't disagree



'The word "annoying" appears 16 times in this review'



thanks for counting. i wish there weren't so many necessary applications for it

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damn it kevin i wanted taco bell

*insert "tech death metal is pretentious bullshit" here*

Op would get along very well with the prog rock critics of the 70's.

Album Rating: 5.0

ToSmokMuzyki doesn't meant to dwell, but he can't help himself...

Album Rating: 5.0

^^haha

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indeed, prog is the aural equivalent of duct taping a banana to a wall and calling it a great piece of art. a small niche of people will pay a great amount of money for it just because it goes against the grain, but it's still just a banana, soon rotten if not eaten quickly.

Meaning is like, assigned maaaaaan.

this is so poorly written that it's almost impressive

"indeed, prog is the aural equivalent of duct taping a banana to a wall and calling it a great piece of art."

cringe

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thank you



aye cringe is what i do whenever i listen to banana metal too

This ain't it

Tbh tho this is probably review of the year

My personal favorite release over all time! Songs like ... no, there are ALL track perfects! And Crystal Moutain make this album 6 stars alone ...

I played it a hundered times. And my opinion is true. Best album of all times!

Album Rating: 3.5

lol

Some of the rym reviews are hilarious

Album Rating: 3.5

i dont doubt that for a second