Album Rating: 4.0
Actually they have distinct metalcore roots...their early work contains alot of metalcore elements...they have however
eliminated alot of that with their newer work
Ok, I guess you can say that s/t and maybe tsc have some metalcore in them, but I'd prefer to just refer to it as death metal or
just plain ole metal.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Great review man. I need more listens to make up my mind on how I'd rate it, but you're convincing.
Also: Bodominflames, I was at that Terminal 5 concert too. BtBaM and Opeth back to back was outrageous
then Dream Theater came on and bored me to death with their mindless prog shred lol
Finally: I don't think Tommy ever used autotune in his singing, and I like his voice.
Opeth is the most boring band to see live on planet. I can listen to them on CD, but Mikael's voice is just too monotonous and
NOBODY in the band does anything on stage to get the crowd going.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Cocaine, you aren't cut out for metal because you consider a few extremely talented musicians jamming out for half of a song a "mess". I mean, honestly? A mess? Do you even play an instrument?
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Okay, obfuscation user. Don't come in here and get all on cocaine, especially with that username. You are just gonna come across as a douche bag fanboy that deserves to be shot in the face. And you don't have to play an instrument to be a good music critic.
|
| |
o nice review btw
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
I'm not cut out for metal because I don't like self-indulgent, ego-fellating jam sessions? Don't you mean I'm not cut out for jam-rock. Actually, I'm not sure why I'm even responding to someone who uses the 'do you even play an instrument' argument.
And need I remind you I GAVE THIS ALBUM A 4 OUT OF 5.
|
| |
Cocaine, you aren't cut out for metal because you consider a few extremely talented musicians jamming out for half of a song a "mess". I mean, honestly? A mess? Do you even play an instrument?
holy shit matt that isn't a 5
|
| |
Apparently 4 out of 5s suck now
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
This deserves a 6/5, hell maybe even a 8/5.
But seriously, soloing jams are good live, but on the album disrupt the flow of a song if not done in a tasteful way. Swim to the Moon is fucking mess for this very reason.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
That's exactly my point. It would work so well live but it's tedious on the album.
|
| |
good review coke, as its was the most unbiased and honest out of all the ones submitted. will check this out but I had a feeling this would sound like left over Colors songs or pure wank.
Does the Bass sound as good as it did in Colors ?
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
As good or better.
|
| |
I have listened to the album somewhere on the order of 10 times. It appears to me that everyone will have mixed feelings on this. I love every album more than most music that I've discovered, but from a metal head perspective, I understand alternate opinions.
I don't ever see any piece as prog-wankery, it's all just music for the sake of sounds and that's what I love. Mike Patton's philosophy to his vocals, as far as I've heard, has always been "what would sound good?", not "what am I trying to say?" BTBAM feels like the same vein to me, and I believe harsh transitions come from a topic of discussion that would pose "how do we ease from this sound to that?" VS. "how do we take our listeners by complete surprise?" No part of their music comes across to me as underdeveloped and I hardly think they add things without deliberate thought to their orchestration.
Yes, I am a complete fan boy and several unfortunate folks probably got a little of my jizz on them at the last show. I personally favor this album in the 5/5 manner, but I definitely would recommend it to the ears of Mars Volta, Melvins, Dream Theater, Psyopus, Lye by Mistake, Smashing Pumpkins fans and jazz-heads before those of Into the Moat, JFAC, Arsis, After the Burial fandom. At least they aren't trying to be another prog-band that just plays rehashed Rush (looking at you Coheed, haha). It's all good though.
Good review, btw, even if I didn't see it the same, you kept it mostly objective, except your snide stab at Alaska or Silent Circus, different sweeps for different peeps I guess.
There's my two-cents I'm sure nobody cares about.
NEW RED CHORD TODAY, WOOT!
|
| |
Cocaine, you aren't cut out for metal because you consider a few extremely talented musicians jamming out for half of a song a "mess". I mean, honestly? A mess? Do you even play an instrument?
Ok just make this clear this is coming from a guy who gave this a 5......
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
|
| |
Album Rating: 2.0
pretty much hit the nail on the head there dude. btbam are making music in a way they feel it works.
this reminds me of a saying that my guitar teacher told me once about composition, "50% of the time, give the audience what they feel should come next, the other 50%, what would surprise them".
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
You pretty much read my mind when you were talking about how Swim to the moon was a jam-like session, reserved for a live album type deal.
totally nailed it.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
Gotta give this a 4 after my first couple listens... I don't care what people say, this is pretty damn good and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Good review. I'm loving this more with each listen. So far it's a toss up between this and Colors for me.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Grows on you
|
| |
"For most fans of the band, Colors was a landmark release. Alaska was, in a lot of ways, just another take on The Silent Circus. A shittier one, at that."
"I stopped reading after that."
So did I.
Review Null. Colors and Alaska are 2 of the greatest albums of of this generation.
|
| |
|
|
