Album Rating: 3.8

LMAOOOOOO

"I absolutely love when bands throw new wrinkles into their sound."

I don't, but this time it's working for me. Found the previous Gaerea to be somehow boring and samey.

This kinda sounds like Harakiri For The Sky and Heretoir.

Album Rating: 3.8

Glad you're digging it! Seems to only be a few of us that like it lol.

Album Rating: 3.5

First time I see a band changing their style from progressive black metal to melodicr metalcore, but for me it works. Digging it!

Album Rating: 3.0

My problem with this is that it's similar to Coma in a lot of ways, but Coma did everything better. It doesn't do anything differently, or strongly enough, to make me want to listen to it when I could just listen to that instead.



I like a lot of the moments here, but then I go back and listen to the opening track of Coma and it just wipes the floor with this entire album. I think they had the right balance there, this feels like a step too far into a more streamlined sound. I was utterly hooked on that album when I came across it, but I'm struggling to find replay value here.

Album Rating: 3.0

Not getting all the extreme backlash tbh. I mean it’s not anything mind blowing but it’s far from bad. In fact I’d call it good and enjoyable. But at the same time I’ve never heard this band before. I see it’s a shift from black metal. So maybe that’s the reason

Album Rating: 3.5

I think a lot of it is that it’s just a big step back for these guys, this is clearly the worst album at least that I’ve heard from them



Tbh I don’t remember much from their last full length but Mirage is such a sick record and this is just nothing like that, and I get the criticism with the production too.

Album Rating: 3.0

My main critique is the clean vocals. But they grew on me by the end of the album. But oof big yikes when I first started listening. They def could still use work. But I found a few really good songs on here, like Submerged and Nomad. I’ll have to listen to some of their other stuff when I get a chance. I really am not sure how I happened to stumble upon this album tbh

Album Rating: 3.0

I’ve listened to pieces of Coma and Mirage while at my desk tonight and I dig what I’ve heard. So I’m excited for venturing into those

Album Rating: 2.5

never listened to this band but the discourse got me intrigued. black metal band goes metalcore??? oh baby

Need to listen to this although based on this thread I have no idea if I'll love it or hate it lmao

Album Rating: 3.0

Trilo I think you would dig Mirage. The rest prob not so much

This is honestly not as bad as some are making it out to be. Is it a great album? Far from it. But is it a massive streaming pile of shit with no redeemable qualities? Absolutely not. I feel like most people are upset they've commercialized their sound, which is almost always met with criticism from the community.

Luminary is definitely the strongest song on the album, which of course is probably the closest song to their previous material.

Album Rating: 1.5

It's more I usually don't skip songs so if something makes me skip that's a failure on a fundamental level. Like I'll forgive a crummy boring ballad or something on a pop album when I go outside of my wheelhouse, but I couldn't make it through a single song on this. Even that interlude.

Album Rating: 2.5

this was less bad than i was expecting. i mean it's not good and i'll never listen to it again buuuut at first glance i was expecting some like sleep token adjacent djentcore or something based on the masks and album art. color me shocked when i heard blast beats and traces of bm riffs. idk doesn't seem offensively bad to me just generic melodic metalcore with bad vocals but i understand the rugpull if you were a fan of the band previously. inflation is a bitch i guess

Album Rating: 3.0

Is this the one band where Hawks and Tundra can find eachother?

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Will this be the album that breaks the barricade of animosity and brings love together? A star crossed forbidden love story of black metal and djent that defies histories animosity or will it be a tragedy doomed for the ages

I mentioned it in the other thread but listen to the live version of Deluge from summer breeze 23 on youtube, it's massev.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4u6XnKuxoQ

Mirage and Coma were both solid to great, Coma a little more streamlined but mostly well executed I thought and with a couple great standouts. This album is literally just like what if we made that last one but shittier in a very specific way that plays to the algorithm. I feel like that alone earns it a 1.0. I can see being fine with it if it's your first of theirs but truly just do yourself a favor and skip it for the previous 2.

Also I'm not in the 'all commercial/popular music is bad' camp whatsoever but something about metal and heavy music in general, the crossover of commercial and heavy music just pretty much always equates to the worst lowest common denominator braindead octane radio buttrock bullshit, so in pretty much every case, yeah commercializing their sound is a bad thing. You kind of go out of your way to find bands that don't sound dumb as hell so when they go that direction it's a bummer.

Also as someone who really doesn't pay attention to lyrics unless I like the album enough to sit down with them and read them or if something really good or really fucking awful stands out and grabs my attention. And my god the way this kept grabbing my attention and making sure I knew how awful the fucking lyrics are.

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

lest we forget this band waterboarded their singer for 5 minutes straight for "art" or some shi