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Nomos2
September 29th 2023


2132 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

This sounds like music that a band would make under a pseudonym for the ingame Cyberpunk 2077 radio by half-assing it with D-sides they picked off the cutting room floor for a paycheque. Faux-edgy. Faux progressive genre blending.

DavidYowi
September 29th 2023


3512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

“grunge and nu-metal are the worst kinds of guitar music and somehow the lame wits in chode orange decided to embrace both



like, fucking hell, guys



fucking hell“



Couple that with the Kids-era stuff being more emo/post-hardcore and you have a band tailored made to piss off the kinds of dudes who use this site it kinda rules

Nomos2
September 29th 2023


2132 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Moments like the ending of The Game are what I came for. Sadly few and far between. This thing loses steam every time they veer from the djunz

Wildcardbitchesss
September 29th 2023


19516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

the first leg of this thing is fucking horrible. It gets much better with Mirror but good lord those first four tracks are dreadful

bigweinerdon
September 29th 2023


2898 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

The end of The Game fuckin hauls ass. More of that

Wildcardbitchesss
September 29th 2023


19516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

It’s like, there’s so many good ideas, and everyone in the band is clearly talented, but they just cannot string those ideas together into anything cohesive. So many songs here feel so fucking disjointed.



It’s honestly aggravating to me how often this band has a good groove going only for it to descend into brain dead chugging or god awful vocal melodies, if you can even call some of them that.

Wildcardbitchesss
September 29th 2023


19516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Also there’s no fucking reason for this to be over 50 minutes. They could easily chop off ten minutes of bullshit and have a better record for it

If you took like the four best songs off each of their last three records you’d have a decent alt metal album. It’s really insane to me that they actually do make pretty good radio friendly shit but when they throw down they get so much worse. I can’t think of a single other band where the “clearly made for radio singles” are substantially better than the heavy shit



And don’t diss the cyberpunk soundtrack. It’s got probably the best metal station in any video game I’ve ever played

DarkSideOfLucca
September 29th 2023


19174 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I do agree that they could trim this by 10 min

Zac124
September 29th 2023


3999 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

They should have cut out the first 6 songs. The first half here was terrible with very few redeeming qualities.

Wildcardbitchesss
September 30th 2023


19516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Aside from Mirror I kinda agree. And I got Mask of Sanity Slips mixed up with Drone Opting Out of the Hive earlier. Mask of Sanity is decent, Drone is fucking terrible.



Album is extremely back heavy. Snapshot is pretty fucking good I’ll admit. The Game goes hard as fuck too, and Grooming My Replacement ain’t bad either.



Really dig the last two tracks too tbh

DarkSideOfLucca
September 30th 2023


19174 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I actually like the first 6 songs



I kinda like all of this



If I was like 20 years younger I might say something like "Code Orange is forever" but I won't

Wildcardbitchesss
September 30th 2023


19516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

thank you for not saying that. Or any of that TOTH bullshit

Zac124
September 30th 2023


3999 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Grooming My Replacement is by far the best song here. Snapshot is also pretty good and The Game is alright. Everything else though ranges from decent but completely forgettable to downright awful.

MantisTobogganMD
September 30th 2023


497 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I haven't listen enough to really give an overall opinion but a few observations. The first two tracks are great. I think it was a mistake making some of the best songs on the album singles. Mirror grew on me. I've been hearing Corgan had a lot of direct influence on this album and after listen to Jami's singing style on here it's shows, I'm so far neutral on whether I like it yet it or not. I don't have too much input on the back half of the album yet since I've only went through it once. Grooming my Replacement is one the best songs they've written though.

bigweinerdon
September 30th 2023


2898 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I can agree Grooming is probably the best here

Trebor.
Emeritus
September 30th 2023


60329 Comments


chode orange lol

Wildcardbitchesss
September 30th 2023


19516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

got em

FrozenFirebug
September 30th 2023


1196 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

this is disjointed garbage in the best way

all it needs is some airhorns and a viper the rapper feature

Ryus
September 30th 2023


37885 Comments


viper feature would exponentially improve the opener

Wildcardbitchesss
September 30th 2023


19516 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Viper feature would improve everything tbh



You’ll cowards don’t even smoke crack



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