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Nomos2
September 25th 2022


1977 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

third time seeing them last night and easily their best performance! Both backup singers had COVID though so the backing track sufficed

Flugmorph
September 29th 2022


34844 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

run fucking slaps yo

Flugmorph
September 29th 2022


34844 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah i kinda love this ngl

Flugmorph
September 29th 2022


34844 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

pretty sure not liking Z&A is fascist actually

Itwasthatwas
January 11th 2023


3177 Comments


I’ve never heard of these guys before and this came up as a Spotify recommendation. I’m mystified as to why they market this as a black metal album because I enjoy it for what it is. It sounds like a mashup up folk/gospel tinged indie rock like hozier, broken era NIN, and a bunch of nu metal and metalcore tropes.

There’s a bunch of obvious influences, and other than a few blackgaze style trems the “black metal” and “avant- garde” labels are false advertising.I caught you drops straight into a riff from the first burn the priest album in the middle. There are a couple of rhythms that sound like they came off a foo fighters album, and another percussion section at one point that sounds like squalor victoria. Golden liar goes full spaghetti western. To me the low points of the album are when it drops into opposite of december-core chugs in some of the verses

This is a reasonably entertaining driving album with a bunch of good hooks but unfortunate lyrics. They should lean into their poppy influences more with the marketing and embrace selling themselves based on what they’re actually good at

LunaticSoul
January 11th 2023


2416 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

they are nice guys and I would totally be happy for them if they sellout tbh. I saw them at ATG and it was the dumbest pit of the festival, there were people that were obviously there just for them almost, they had as many people as the headliner and they were on the second stage, they will just get bigger imho.

MarsKid
Emeritus
January 11th 2023


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

I'm sure they're nice dudes and I've nothing against their success/have no personal stake in this game, just don't really get a sense of consistency here or anything that makes them particularly unique.



You're right in that they really need to drop black metal; it's not doing any favors here.

aquiroga79
January 11th 2023


49 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The sheep following the direction of the reviewer...

This is an amazing album no matter what this reviewer says

Ryus
January 11th 2023


37886 Comments


fight the power

MarsKid
Emeritus
January 11th 2023


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

Screw that REVIEWER



Wait a second





twlight
February 11th 2023


9178 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING GOD



WHEN YOURE ABOUT TO ROT?

Purpl3Spartan
February 11th 2023


8927 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Ur moms house

twlight
February 11th 2023


9178 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I knew it!

twlight
February 11th 2023


9178 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

this is a good album





DarkNoctus
February 16th 2023


12332 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

i want to love this cus the political side of this band is great but i find their music awful

Flugmorph
February 16th 2023


34844 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

sad

LunaticSoul
August 24th 2024


2416 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

New one is... Bad, aside from some of the singles and a couple tunes here and there. I like the ballads more than whatever else they're trying to do

PizzaBear
August 27th 2024


673 Comments


Returning to this as a refresher before I jam the new one and I'm enjoying it more than I remembered tbh

Storm In A Teacup
August 27th 2024


46359 Comments


Emersion is cool



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