Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
This record relative to its respective genre/s feels considerably less inspired. I guess it isn’t impossible but I’d be surprised if this is breaching 4 by the end of the year.
It's starting to feel like you have a personal problem with this band the way you hammer in you find it uninspired. You just can't have heard "Azagthoth" or "Chaos Theory and Practice" and say this isn't bringing anything new to the genre. Personal taste aside. I mean Reggae sections in metal songs that actually work? And I HATE Reggae!
Just to make it interesting: name 1 band in this progressive genre that does things like these. 95% of progressive bands sound like derivations of Dream Theater or Devin Townsend. And none of that stuff is here. This band to me is a breath of fresh air in not only progressive metal but also metal in general. Doesn't happen often that something like this gets released and actually manages to surprise. Even Terminal Redux with all of the "new" elements was still thrash. For me it was nowhere near as brave as this album.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
You just can't have heard "Azagthoth" or "Chaos Theory and Practice" and say this isn't bringing anything new to the genre.
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95% of progressive bands sound like derivations of Dream Theater or Devin Townsend.
While I’m in the “liking this a lot category” I can’t help but notice how short sighted these statements are. Did you just name drop the only two progressive metal bands you know? Also (somewhat related to my response for Ramon. earlier) the band’s these members came from as well as other technical entities have done this before - just like the last 10ish years of extreme metal in this tangent. Saying this is brand new, innovative etc is not true. Saying it developes on those past innovators would be closer to the mark.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yeah this def isn't innovative in any way lol. It does rip hard though.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I mean Reggae sections in metal songs that actually work? And I HATE Reggae!
Not quite off topic. Have you heard the latest Archspire release? There are some legit tribal percussive sections peppered through that album. If you're attentive enough it’s pretty easy to pick them through the blast beats etc.
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Would I dig this?
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I hope so Pleb
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yeah Pleb give it a go.
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Album Rating: 3.0
"It's starting to feel like you have a personal problem with this band the way you hammer in you find it uninspired"
on a technicality, that isn't what i said. band is definitely smelly tho
https://youtu.be/FTfakxJi0Jw?t=3
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
[quote]band is definitely smelly tho[/i]
Smelly is the beer kind
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Album Rating: 1.5
wots this
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Jac lives! Good to see you bud
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Album Rating: 4.0
as decreed by laws unwritten is straight up gojira worship and i fucken LARVE it
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Album Rating: 3.3 | Sound Off
I definitely heard the huge Gojira influence on that song. Caught some other blatant influences a few other times... Tool comes to mind.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Oh these guys really like tool. Malkuth is essentially tool writing an obscura album
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now they sound like diatribes-era Napalm Death and Roots-era Sepultura, wtf is happening THIS ALBUM WILL DRIVE ME TO MADNESS
guess thats how they're channelling hp lovecraft
EDIT: halfway through and i give up on this identity crisis of an album
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Album Rating: 3.5
album owns hard. hannes is such a beast
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did band members create accounts on sputnik to 5 their own album or what? because these ratings don't make much sense lol
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Album Rating: 2.5
'Oh these guys really like tool' probably why I'm not digging this that much
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Album Rating: 3.5
yes, because ratings like 2 for this album make so much more sense. ppl on this site confuse their own taste/mood with actually _rating_ smth all the time. just failnik things
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Album Rating: 3.0
1) Kernel Panic sounds like Yes's Owner Of A Lonely Heart with additional tech death riff overlays
2) Closing track Rise of the Cephalopods has a great buildup and absolutely awesome riffing at 5:55, 7:10 and 10:08.
In between, I got immersed in reading the morning newspaper, which is not a good sign. Top notch musicianship, no question, but overall I am not at all overwhelmed by this.
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