Album Rating: 3.5
This may have been stale when the scene was more oversaturated by this style, but in 2019 this feels far more fresh to my ears. It's like the throwback we all needed in a scene that's being turned into the Wage War zone.
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Album Rating: 1.5
This may have been stale when the scene was more oversaturated by this style, but in 2019 this feels far more fresh to my ears.
I feel like you may be deliberately ignoring the releases made in this style in recent years just to make this statement work. It didn't exactly go away. The only way this could be passably fresh is if you actually went out of your way to avoid this kind of music.
Unless I'm not picking up what you're putting down there sir.
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Confined still slaps to this day.
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How quickly I forget about that song because it really does
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Album Rating: 3.5
"I feel like you may be deliberately ignoring the releases made in this style in recent years just to make this statement work."
Like what? Miss May I's discography? It's far less prevalent in the late 2010s. Even bands like Caliban ended up abandoning it for the new trends in core.
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Why the fuck would anyone possibly expect this albums theme and lyrical focus to be on anything OTHER than Tim's past? Using that as a negative critique is next level stupid. How could it possibly be behind them when this is the first material they've released since the reunion? If they make more albums after this and he's still whining about the same shit then ya sure time to start bitching.
Album is pretty meh overall but saying the past is the past is ridiculous as they haven't even had a chance to put it behind them yet, clearly..
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Album Rating: 2.0
the problem isn't the theme behind the album but the execution of Tim's lyrics, which are utter trash on this
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Album Rating: 1.5
Why the fuck would anyone possibly expect this albums theme and lyrical focus to be on anything OTHER than Tim's past? Using that as a negative critique is next level stupid.
Not getting the context out of the review is honestly next level stupid. Fans/listeners fully expected the whole "I went to prison" shtick especially after that single last year. I didn't use the theology as a negative critique, I used how terribly it's integrated into every single part of this album. It gave poor hooks, terribad cliches and milked verses.
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Album Rating: 1.5
Or read the Gonzo summarized version.
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At this point the band is political and their main issue is Tim is sorry. Blech.
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Album Rating: 2.0
"This may have been stale when the scene was more oversaturated by this style, but in 2019 this feels far more fresh to my ears. It's like the throwback we all needed in a scene that's being turned into the Wage War zone."
Literally nothing this band is doing on here is any different from commercialized/mainstream metalcore acts going in the past 10 yrs or so.
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God, Veninblazer can't be this dumb.
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Album Rating: 2.0
As expected of snide
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Wait, that's Snide??? No way!!
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Nice job on the review. I agree with some of your complaints, although I think they didn't bother me as much as they bothered you, since I still like the album well enough overall. I fully expected the lyrics to all revolve around Tim's issues, but I still think they were written in a way that they are relatable to things regular people struggle with too. Also, I agree that the album feels a bit monotonous when listening through, but I got the vibe that it’s not so much that the band doesn’t care and they are just clocking in and out, but rather that they don’t deviate from nearly the exact same formula on almost every song on the album, which is my biggest complaint.
I know it's common in metalcore to do the whole alternating between screaming verses and cleans on the chorus, but on the better records they tend to mix it up a little more or omit cleans on some songs. Phinehas is a great example of avoiding this. I thought My Own Grave was great when they released it, but then once the whole album was released and it was like every song was the same as My Own Grave, they just changed up the melody and lyrics. I think there is only one or two songs on this whole album that deviate from this. Gatekeeper is one of the only tracks that is different and it’s probably my favorite.
Complaints aside, I thought this album was still pretty solid and catchy. I think it’s a step up from Awakened and I'll probably still end up listening to it a bunch.
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Album Rating: 1.5
Literally nothing this band is doing on here is any different from commercialized/mainstream metalcore acts going in the past 10 yrs or so.
Basically the point I was making with Deathbat.
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If you like this you’re probably 15 years old, and that’s OK. Everyone else... Get a fkn grip.
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Lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
Nice Review, I enjoyed my first listen and but I'm more interested with what they'll do next.
Definitely Metalcore by the numbers but I was playing some Monster Hunter while listening to it and it made shit epic as fuck.
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Album Rating: 3.0
"Why the fuck would anyone possibly expect this albums theme and lyrical focus to be on anything OTHER than Tim's past? Using that as a negative critique is next level stupid. How could it possibly be behind them when this is the first material they've released since the reunion? If they make more albums after this and he's still whining about the same shit then ya sure time to start bitching.
Album is pretty meh overall but saying the past is the past is ridiculous as they haven't even had a chance to put it behind them yet, clearly.."
Every song needs to be about it though? And he plays the victim so far. It's emabarrasing.
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