Album Rating: 4.5
Loving Fuse more and more in context of the album.
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Album Rating: 4.5
For me, it's more a question of loving Meshuggah and not really enjoying any other bands usually mentioned as being in the same genre as them (although, ok, I like Tesseract, but despite what people say, for me they really are not the same genre)
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Album Rating: 4.5
There is no band that really does what Meshuggah does. Their genius makes it practically impossible for anyone else, and there really are things they do that make me think "yeah, even if I devoted my whole life to making the best music I could, I would never think of THAT." I see them on a similar level as the best of the classical era.
There's a band called Terminal Function that you could unironically mistake for Meshuggah at first listen. But the comparative lack of restraint and a cohesive theme show quickly (but admittedly still a great band!). So yeah, Meshuggah will sound like a lot of other bands in the djenty progressive genre, but the actual effect on your being is pretty different.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"in my experience it's usually djent-heads that get kind of defensive about their genre being legitimate or not. and kind of wanting/needing meshuggah to be retroactively labelled as that in order for their world to make sense"
Maybe like 10 years ago when they were the only band of the style with more than 1-2 albums lol, not so much today
And let me ask you this... if Obzen and everything before "djent became a thing" isn't djent, then what do we call Koloss, TVSOR, and this album??? They literally all sound the same (DEI maybe a little more thrashy) but it can't be called djent if it came out before 2009?
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Really, I could copy-and-paste this review on any other Meshuggah albums, because they all sound the same. There is absolutely no melody, just endless, repetitive rhythm. Perhaps I should rate this higher because of the respectable talent of the musicians, but no. Yes they can go from 5/4 to 11/8 to 13/16 to 26/32 to 1549/47 in half a second, but its still shallow and meaningless. Everything about this album (and the others) is annoying. Terrible production, horrible vocals, pretentious lyrics and music... When will people realize that this is not the future of metal - or music?
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Album Rating: 4.5
it can cuz that’s where the blueprint began
1994-95 (whenever Soul Burn was written) onward
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Album Rating: 4.5
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURN
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guys this album really is immutable, every time i try to turn the volume down it only gets louder :X
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Alex you’re kinda proving my point right now lol
Also this album sounds little like TVSOR and Koloss, and much more like obzen and chaosphere
Like i get where you’re coming from and in spirit the argument makes sense but i maintain it makes little to no sense to take new genre names and apply them to their influences. I think even the most heavy of djent-heads would admit that meshuggah’s sound is pretty different from virtually all djent bands, aside from a couple of core dynamics. Why lump them together?
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Album Rating: 4.0
"I think even the most heavy of djent-heads would admit that meshuggah’s sound is pretty different from virtually all djent bands, aside from a couple of core dynamics."
I feel like every djent thread on this site proves this to be false lmao. How can every djent band be a meshuggah copycat while playing a whole different style of music than meshuggah? (Obv not directed at you in particular) but you can't have your cake and eat it too
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Haha yah I’ve never really entertained the shug copycat rhetoric but you certainly have a point there
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Album Rating: 4.5
I just hate that stupid genre name with a passion.
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big djungus
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Album Rating: 4.5
“How can every djent band be a meshuggah copycat while playing a whole different style of music than meshuggah?”
if you knew how to riff, you can tell
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the smell would be something but it's the only way these jokers will ever be satisfied
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Album Rating: 4.5
😏
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Album Rating: 3.5
First half of the album finally clicked, it’s better than everything in The Violent Sleep of Reason
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My man 👏
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
This thread is neck beard heaven
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Album Rating: 4.5
don’t you have reviews to delete cuz you can’t take criticism
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