Album Rating: 4.5
Sometimes I think a lot of metal music is a race toward the purest expression of unhingedness and sometimes I think the ending of “fault and fracture” is indeed the purest expression of all
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Album Rating: 4.5
Listened to this recently after a multi-year break and I was surprised by how punk it is more than metal, like when I was listening to it on repeat in the early days I was caught up hearing all the heaviness and chaos but the heart of this thing really is in hardcore punk
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yep, the punk vs metal tilt / perception is certainly something that's changed for me over the years as well
but then I barely metalled at all when I was getting into this, so Converge often being labelled broadly as 'metalcore' or 'extreme metal' certainly didn't exactly give me the proper perspective... I knew of the punk origins also, yet that's never how it felt back then, not initially
idk, not explaining this very well
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Album Rating: 5.0
Well, they're literally a pioneering band in Metalcore--which by its definition, is a fusion of the two.
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Album Rating: 4.5
we're talking about historic personal perception here, no disputing that they are in fact both
I always knew this, in 2004-5 (or whatever it was) I knew this - just that my brain hears different things now, as my perception has changed over the years
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Album Rating: 5.0
i remember seeing some article about how the brain processes music differently and you need to train it to pick up things happening in very fast/chaotic music
i do remember listening to stuff like this or dillinger escape plan and it being 'just noise'
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Album Rating: 5.0
lol I remember hearing that little opening riff on Sugar Coated Sour and thinking “why can’t the entire song be like that!” lmfao
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Album Rating: 4.5
there was something strangely cool af about '43% Burnt' even tho I was generally pretty confused by the album, lol
I think the simplicity of Homewrecker's repetition got to me in the end here, I remember having both on a giant playlist I'd created using iTunes (from my CD uploads). I think that must have helped. The vox were (naturally) the biggest obstacle though and no individual track could prepare you for that in this instance, just had to persevere
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Album Rating: 5.0
This sort of thing is definitely an acquired taste, but found it monumentally rewarding in the long run. The fact that this (and the aforementioned DEP's discography) is done so well, and is so dense, it has incredible longevity as it's so far removed from the disposable chewing gum hit of most pop structure.
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Album Rating: 5.0
^ I'm not saying it's mutually exclusive, and yes it absolutely articulates fierce and essential. I'm specifically referring to the above conversation about the nature of perseverance beyond the initial "WTF, this is noise" response, common to this style of music.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Isis has clearly never heard tDEP’s Black Bubblegum, surely the definition of a ‘disposable chewing gum hit’
I actually don’t mind the song, by the way
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Album Rating: 5.0
^ Lol! I have, and it happens to be from my favourite album of theirs...
Don't get me wrong--I love me some pop; it's the rinsing of something you like (often via a hook) that tends to make a person tire of it in the long run. It's the reason why I really dug something like Billie Eilish's first album when it came out, KNOWING that by sometime later its addicting effects would've worn off completely.
In DEP's case, when Greg Puciato came in, he added these elements in parts, sparingly, and the hooks felt triumphant and earned amidst all the complexity... a genuine artistic choice in embracing all genres that they happened to like (upto and including covering Aphex Twin and Justin Timberlake).
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Album Rating: 5.0
I feel like with Greg’s ego at the time the dude was probably like “yeah, we’ll do a radio rock song, and we’ll do it better than you.”
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He wasn’t wrong
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Album Rating: 5.0
@Storm In A Teacup Glad you've finally seen the light.
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Album Rating: 5.0
thaw sounds like an axe to fall track 8 years early
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Album Rating: 4.5
Sup clim!
I'LL
TAKE
MY
LOVE
TO
THE
GRAVE!
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Album Rating: 5.0
clim more like clame
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Album Rating: 4.5
Īïīíïpœ
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Album Rating: 5.0
Don't know if it's the "best" but it's definitely my favorite. SO good.
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