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Ectier
July 13th 2023


2609 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

You could make a pretty solid album with the standouts of All our gods and Holy hell tbh. Memento Mori is also just okay? That may be a bad take i think Colony Collapse may be one of their overall best tracka tbh

onionbubs
July 13th 2023


20952 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

there i do differ a bit memento mori is pretty easily their best track since lf//lt imo its not even close (barely any other remotely viable candidates tho lmao)

Ectier
July 13th 2023


2609 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I do like it but i feel if they re recorded it and had the clean sections be a bit vulnerable and not as layered would be grand

onionbubs
July 13th 2023


20952 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

oh the production is absolutely way way too clean and slicked up. all our gods is an extremely artificial sounding album to me. gives me a headache

Ectier
July 13th 2023


2609 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

One thing that pissed me off is the forcing of Blegh into so many tracks. I really like Royal beggers as a song but why is there a random/lazy blegh thrown in?. Vocally Architects is very frustrating because Sam can sing, he can do lows, he can do mids and his cleans can be very vunerable. He has the range but doesnt fucking use it

onionbubs
July 13th 2023


20952 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah honestly lmao truly one of the biggest wastes of vocal talent i can think of

Ectier
July 13th 2023


2609 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Its just confusing especially when you see live shows and he throws in lows and it makes you go "Bro why arent these on the album????". Theres an extended version of The distant blue that sounded amazing but no cant release a version of it

SteakByrnes
December 6th 2023


29819 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Hearing the new song has made me realize they have gone two completely different directions in their career when it came to people voicing displeasure to their then current sounds respectively. After The Here and Now, they made this which brought back the heavy but meshed in the softer elements they wanted to keep, and it felt like an actual passionate performance to win people over again while growing their audience at the same time with a more palatable sound.



Flash forward to now, and they make what boils down to a joke "we're mad at online haters" track that lacks any conviction or nuance and throws down this completely generic heavy chug nonsense that fans of their old stuff wouldn't even enjoy.



I think the main obvious reason for such a stark contrast in how it was handled is that Tom was still here for this album. Tom loved the music he made and loved making music as a whole that would relate to people. This new shit is just too reactionary to feel genuine at all, and I don't get who the song is supposed to impress. It doesn't have any of the good songwriting that they used to have (obviously cause of no Tom), it sounds overly manufactured, and honestly feels like a song made out of pure stupid internet rage.

Ectier
December 6th 2023


2609 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

The band is a walking identity crisis. I love this band but its so fucking depressing watching them and knowing Dan at the very least has the chops to write some cool shit

Spec
December 6th 2023


39456 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Dan is one of the most underrated drummers in the world and he will stay underrated as long as he’s making subpar stuff like they are currently.

Mort.
December 6th 2023


25062 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

the whole situation is very depressing



also i want to punch nik nokturnal in the face

Spec
December 6th 2023


39456 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I’ve intentionally never watched a single video of his. I just straight up refuse. I still know nothing about him other than he likes breakdowns.



No particular reason it’s totally a me issue.

Mort.
December 6th 2023


25062 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

i just saw his comment under the new architects vid and weeped, thats all

SteakByrnes
December 6th 2023


29819 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Nik is one of the worst things to happen to core, he really popularized the stupid as shit reaction videos

Spec
December 6th 2023


39456 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

That’s the impression that I get. Probably why I have such disdain for someone who’s content I’ve never actually seen.

Mort.
December 6th 2023


25062 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

and just bums every single band that comes out like theyre the second coming



dudes a hyperbole machine

Spec
December 6th 2023


39456 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Is he looking to get featured on a bunch of albums? He’s a guitar player ain’t he?

SteakByrnes
December 6th 2023


29819 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

He makes music himself and it's pretty bad. I know he was supposedly a new member of I The Breather lol but I haven't heard anything about new stuff from them in a few years

Mort.
December 6th 2023


25062 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah he makes his own music



dudes grafting hard gotta give it to him. i dont hate the clickbaity nonsense as much as i hate just being an unending well of positivity for complete mediocrity

SteakByrnes
December 6th 2023


29819 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yea fr, there's no way he actually likes everything that comes out lol. Part of it has to be for attention there's no way I believe otherwise



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