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lol bloc

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Boy this comments section is the gift that keeps giving

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This thread has been a classic from day 1

Spawn of Possession are one of the pillars of technical death metal in its modern form, probably a little behind Necrophagist in terms of sheer influence and this album has grown to be quite respected in recent times but pretty much for all the wrong reasons. Is it wanky? Sure, but in a genre with "technical" in its name everything is expected to sound like it's by musicians who could do jazz fusion in their spare time. No, the problem isn't that they're too good with their instruments or that there's too many notes being spewed but the particular kind of technical death metal they play is almost an eerily accurate grab-bag of pretty much everything that can go wrong in the subgenre crammed into an album over-wrought with an excess of ideas of which nearly all of them become tiresome and eyeroll inducing in minutes.

The primary issue with this album is that it lacks any sense of dynamic build-up or sense of being able to halfway coherently explore a single idea because nearly every single moment here is intended to be some kind of mindblowing showstopper and extreme display of dexterous gymnastics. The problem however with the Michael Bay approach to songwriting is that when every scene is something exploding or some dudes yelling while firing their uberhightech sci fi guns in bullet time is that all these normally tolerable tricks of the trade pretty much lose all their taste in the same way trying to finish an entire bucket of Halloween sweets in under an hour does; maybe the arpeggiated-neoclassical-phrygian-sweep-chord-shred-whatever-the-fuck-these-are-supposed-to-be-called was fine for the first few times but when you have a few hundred more essentially interchangeable sections each competing to outdo the other with pure wow factor, the effect is lost quickly and you find yourself reaching for the barf bag. In a time when technical finesse has gone from a skill that was once rare and arcane to the everyday and the mundane (or if you're already big on a lot of jazz fusion and progressive rock where these characteristics are built in rather than external additions), that only dulls the taste even further.

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^^preferred listening to the album over reading that comment tbh

idk something is telling me that's copypasta lol

The icing on this diabetes-inducing cake is that they're from the dreaded meedle-weedle "I totally would've been on Shrapnel Records if it was 1987 bro trust me" sweep-maniac school of tek-metal. In other words, the subgenre's equivalent to saccharine dime-a-dozen early to mid 2000's gothen-core that might as well have made a generation of riff-lovers repulsed by the idea of melody itself. There's no real "bite" to this music, nothing that really conveys much in the way of genuine sustained motion other than a few perfunctory moments of welterweight needling riffs that pop up for a few passing moments before wild flurries of fretboard dancing blippity-bloopity blink and you miss it shreddy segments that sound like random snippets of indulgent power metal solos from bands mostly clogging up Russian filesharing site back pages slapped together to form what I guess is supposed to be "riffs".

KnickFurey, yes, agreed. It's a puke inducing ride. But there are some amazing moments in this chaotic heap of ideas.

I really like how you described it, fantastic. You should make a review out of those paragraphs. I'd fap to that!

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There’s gotta be something better you can do with your time than researching copying pasting a bunch of reviews and comments regarding an album you dislike

There’s gotta be something better you can do with your time than telling people "you don't care" then proceed to talk nonsense for 30+ pages to defend an album you like and say absolutely nothing of worth

that's a lot of damage

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oh, surely there is. that would be why i barely post in this thread. perhaps you shouldn't be so fixated on posts i made ten years ago?

Perfect tech death

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is to be found elsewhere

Those big Pikachu ears have not been doing you any favors I see

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Somehow they seem to have been led to register this as generic dweedledoo

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I really don't get the hate for this. Gonna jam again today.

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Deus Avertat is absolutely n a s t y

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That track is, really