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bloc is always calling me lemon. Semen is indeed better, because it’s short for ‘Semen of the Ball’.

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Singular ball huh



How ya been, Lance Armstrong? Or should I say, how's it hangin'?

Damn I forgot I didn’t like this at one point lol. Gonna jam it again soon

Album Rating: 3.5

it happens to the best of us

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Slap on a 4.5, it'll fit

It might fit but I don’t have one on me rn

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As long as it's there in spirit!



I don't think I'll ever write something that gets this many views again to be honest

Album Rating: 3.5

So this is the album everybody likes to call Daesin eh?

It's good, but I would probably appreciate this a lot more if I hadn't heard SoP, Beyond Creation, Brought by Pain, Deviant Process, Unhuman or Gorod before.

Now it sounds more like an amalgam of all those.

Album Rating: 3.5

im not sure beyond creation is better than this tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

If you'd somehow heard Equipoise or something before this then I can see the initial wow-factor being a tad lower, but this is pretty dissimilar to a lot of those you mentioned style-wise.



Only band there that beats these guys is Spawn. Gorod and Beyond Creation aren't even close.

Gorod are poop.

Album Rating: 3.5

gorod were p gd from what i recall

Album Rating: 3.5

"If you'd somehow heard Equipoise or something before this then I can see the initial wow-factor being a tad lower, but this is pretty dissimilar to a lot of those you mentioned style-wise."

Scheme-, style- and melodywise this is immediately recognizeable as Québec TD. Technically perhaps only Spawn beats this, agreed. This is a lot more repetitive tho.

Will check Equipoise, don't expect to like em.

Album Rating: 3.5

"this is immediately recognizeable as Québec TD"



yeah but how much of that isnt to be fair

Album Rating: 3.5

"Gorod are poop."

Check Leading Vision, it's not poop

Album Rating: 3.5

@park yeah might be too stereotypical of me

Martyr is still in a league of its own for instance

Album Rating: 4.0

I mean Gorguts and Beneath the Massacre also from Québec so I dunno if you can define the region by a particular style or scheme, rather than just the inexplicable quality of the stuff that comes from there.



Just between this, Beyond Creation and Deviant Process there are three pretty distinct styles, even accounting for melodic and production similarities that you can find across the pond anyway.

Album Rating: 3.5

Allright Jac. This, Beyond Creation, Brought by Pain and Gorod sound similar to me because I hear similar gyspy-jazz minor melodies in all of them, combined with similar technical styles. I think tbh Gorod was an inspiration for a whole strand of Quebec TD bands.

This adds the technicality of Spawn. First track is already boring for me bc rhythmically it totally copies the scheme of Lash by Lash, albeit in a far more repetitive manner. The same scheme returns on several occasions throughout the album.

Gorguts has nothing to do with it, they're almost a genre in itself, and they're great. Same goes for Martyr. So yeah I'll be more careful with the 'Québec TD' label in the future;)

Album Rating: 4.0

All's good, I ain't saying there aren't commonalities between those bands but at the same time I'm not hearing Baroque-inspired phrasing in Beyond Creation's stuff like I do here. Been a while since I've listened to Gorod tho so I obv need a refresher.



Def agreed this is more repetitive than Spawn but I don't really mind that as the songs are brief enough and feel very self-contained. I didn't really love this when I first heard it either but it steadily grew.

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"very self-contained"



This was always the biggest positive for me the more I listened. I saw Equipiose mentioned earlier, and that kind of tech is dangerously close to being unlistenable for me. I'd put that new Beneath the Massacre in that category as well, where there are certainly complex and captivating instrumentals being performed, but it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish one track from the next, and whether or not the songs matter or the display of skills itself is unclear.



On here, every track can be identified as its own construction, which makes it so much easier to get into. That's not to say I like my tech diluted, but there's a line between comprehensible and dweedle-dee-dum, if you catch my drift.



I'd also like to add Virvum to the conversation as a tech band that needs to be jammed m/