Album Rating: 4.0

Wouldn't have expected it but I came away from this feeling like the clean singing really added something. Like the review I do kinda feel like they're holding back a bit...it doesn't quite hit the moody highs of Sapphire or Abandon or the savagery of Carved From Stone or Cerebral Hybridization.



But this is pretty encouraging. Looking forward to whatever is next, and hoping Scott keeps this group of dudes together to expand on it.

Album Rating: 4.0

"band has the most obnoxious tremz sections in metal tbh"

yeah I can understand that lol. Carstairs really does spam the trem bar like no tomorrow. But that's a huge part of the Fallujah sound so...

Album Rating: 4.5

Loved my first spin of this

Album Rating: 4.0

I did too. Great album.

I didn't say "deathcore." I said "deathcore Cynic."

Album feels like Traced in Air + Akaldema to me, in the best way possible, while obviously being a Fallujah album. It's very cool.

Album Rating: 1.5

Shitotaph

Album Rating: 4.5

I appreciate the commitment to your dislike of this band, it is one of the constants I can rely on here

Album Rating: 1.5

Some things never change lol.

Album Rating: 4.0

@tundra

Honestly Fallujah has such a unique and whimsical tone when they trem

It's almost kind of percussive IG?

We love Hawks, folks.

Album Rating: 4.0

The commitment to trolling here is a bit baffling, though. Of all the bands out there idk what's so offensive about Fallujah in particular lol.

Album Rating: 2.5

I’ve never heard anything else by them but tech death just gets on my nerves most of the time

Album Rating: 4.0

for reference, hawks really likes THIS guy's music



https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Compatriot/3540516018



all love brother : P

Album Rating: 1.5

Hey, I've only heard one of that band's albums with no context beforehand!! Gimme a break lmao. :[[[

Album Rating: 4.5

> Of all the bands out there idk what's so offensive about Fallujah in particular lol.



For real, I don't get it. Like if you listen to any other variation of death metal I don't know what's so out there about this band to hate versus others. They hit all the same beats with a little added flourish of atmosphere and layering but even that isn't taken to such an extreme that I could see someone recoiling at it.

Album Rating: 1.5

Like if you listen to any other variation of death metal I don't know what's so out there about this band to hate versus others

Album Rating: 4.0

by memory i do think hawks is consistent in this attitude toward a lot of tech death



though i think fallujah at worst clearly have character that makes them not generic

Album Rating: 1.5

You are correct lol. Modern tech death in particular has to really blow me away.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm not saying it sounds like all death metal but it definitely hits the same beats as a lot of other bands, hence why they're considered the same genre; fast/frenetic riffing, relentless drums, harsh vocals, dancy solos, and technicality.



You're also listing off older death metal bands, and of course those are going to sound different. In the current crop of proggy tech death bands, I don't think Fallujah sounds leaps and bounds different than Soreption, Entheos, Archspire, Rivers of Nihil, Alluvial, Abiotic, or Job for a Cowboy. Their vibey clean sections and new focus on clean singing definitely helps set them apart but I don't think that separates them from death metal. My point is that it's hard to imagine that someone who likes any of the bands I just listed is going to recoil in disgust at anything Fallujah does unless they really hate such flowery leads and Kyle's singing voice.

Album Rating: 3.0

I think it's more so that when you strip away the atmospheric bits and the production effects you don't have a structure that is all that unique. They rely on the 'gimmick' to form their identity.

This does sound kinda flat too what the heck