Album Rating: 1.5
The whole experimental tag does a LOT of legwork for this band. This is more of a nu-metal/industrial metal thing, and that's a sound that plenty of others have done to greater success before.
I'm not against people trying new stuff, the issue is they just didn't pull it off.
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Album Rating: 3.5
This is interesting. A lot going on to be interesting but could flow together much better
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Album Rating: 2.5
Gotta say I enjoyed reading this review and also all of the comments. I have one song of Zeal's saved on my Spotify (Tuskegee) which is the main reason this release caught my attention.
I never realised quite how unique & divisive this band is, but then the one song I had heard isn't particularly representative of anything on this album. It's certainly an...interesting listen. Like many have said, some hits, some misses and plenty of inconsistencies all over this. Hold Your Head Low is a good example, I feel, of the promise of a great song, but the dichotomy of the two styles being fused together is just too jarring. It works sometimes, but on this track it just feels jumpy.
Currently sitting between a 2.5 and a 3 for me. Probably slightly closer to 2.5. I feel like I should come back to this, or at least other albums in their catalogue, but there's also so much other stuff out there to check out that might be more potentially rewarding.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I feel like the black metal label really fucked this band over in the long run
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Album Rating: 1.5
Label aside, nothing changes. It just means they'd be more up-front about the dime-a-dozen nu metal/industrial motifs.
It's terribly boring and doesn't experiment much at all, so i don't think it stands up regardless of how you name it.
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Album Rating: 2.0
For their next one I hope it’s an album full of “Emersion”s
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Album Rating: 3.0
Emersion is honestly one of the weaker songs here. Feels like filler
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Album Rating: 3.5
I would agree about "Emersion". It's good but could use more development.
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Album Rating: 2.0
i struggled to sit through this
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Album Rating: 2.0
Or they could keep making background music for army workout YouTube videos either way
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lmao
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Or they could keep making background music for army workout YouTube videos either way"
Fucking gold. haha
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Album Rating: 1.5
"i struggled to sit through this"
You walked away still liking this marginally better than me. Godspeed, soldier, I dunno how you did it.
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Album Rating: 2.0
i think the only reason it gets any merit from me is the narrative of the music. i really like what it stands for and some of the lyrics are good. but yeah, everything else sucks.
i was never a huge fan of their previous work tbh - i thought stranger fruit was just okay and i didn't rate it because i honestly felt conflicted. the lyrics, narrative, some of the vocals - all good. everything else was really middling. i felt the production was too clinical for what they wanted to portray and i just don't like their harsher vocals. i admired what it was *trying* to do, at least.
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even fantano wasn't able to like this
some albums are just too mid
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Album Rating: 2.0
This is sub-mid
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Album Rating: 2.5
"Currently sitting between a 2.5 and a 3 for me. Probably slightly closer to 2.5." I feel exactly the same.
This one was disappointing indeed. Stranger fruit is very cool, but this is just so watered down somehow
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'd totally forgotten this album's existence since early March and just put er back on. It's aged well for my tastes! Lots of critics here but I think it's fun throughout.
Seeing them play tomorrow for the third time. Going for Zeal but I may pop in earlier to peep Imperial Triumphant, who are objectively not my cup of tea but should be interesting to see live.
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I’ll be honest, I don’t know how to pronounce either of the words in this band’s name
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I love listening to radio metal
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