Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Not sure. Between this and vile tbh. This is getting cooler as I listen.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Death on a Highway mixes Tool with Meshuggah flawlessly



Edit: on the minute 2:35 to 3:10 to be exact

Back me up cuz I put some thought into it

Album Rating: 4.0

I think I definitely liked Alphaville better. Awesome awesome record though. Need to give it more listens but there’s too much new shit vying for my attention

Album Rating: 4.0

Def hear Shug there DDD but not sure about Tool

Album Rating: 3.0

‘Death on a Highway mixes Tool with Meshuggah flawlessly‘



Is it possible that mixing too inherently bad ingredients could create something scrumptious? Maybe.

Album Rating: 3.5

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Tool and Meshuggah. The music is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of music theory most of the riffs will go over a typical listener's head. There's also Meshuggah's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into theur instrumentation- their personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these songs, to realise that they're not just heavy- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Tool and Meshuggah truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Tool's existential catchphrase "Shit, blood and cum on my hands I've come 'round full circle," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Maynard James Keenan's genius wit unfolds itself on their speakers. What fools.. how I pity them.

Can't believe I read all that.

Whose illuminati's pasta is this?

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah think this is my fave IT release on first listen. Tower of Glory is absolutely hellish in the best way.

Album Rating: 4.5

so cool to watch the zoetrope vinyl spin

For me, it's Vile > Spirit > Alpha, though Spirit may take over soon

Album Rating: 4.0

Vile > Spirit > Alpha [2]



all 3 neck and neck

Album Rating: 1.5

"I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Maynard James Keenan's genius wit unfolds itself on their speakers."

Comedy gold

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

"Def hear Shug there DDD but not sure about Tool"

The the second riff on that section alone is very FI (3'05). All the atmo and full on spacey synths and leads are very shuggah imo.



Also everyone have to agree on that pasta.

Album Rating: 3.0

Honestly it’s cool when artists I love are influenced by stuff I dislike, gives me a new perspective (and even if not probably provides balance to the universe or some shit)



not sure I agree on the specifics, just saying I welcome such occurrences

Album Rating: 4.0

Revisited this again yesterday for about the fifth or sixth try, it started to click a bit better but there are still too many glaring errors in my book to be fully immersed in this thing. Metrovertigo is pretty sweet though and the instrumental near the end of the album is a nice change. I think the muffled production kills it for me. There's a lot going on, but its all buried on top of itself

Album Rating: 3.5

I don't hear muffled so much as kind of blown-out maximalism, kind of in the vein of The Angelic Process where the aesthetic seems to be that the sound is too much for speakers to handle

Album Rating: 3.0

which is a fantastic aesthetic for encapsulating that 'the world is all falling apart' thematical nod, surely? 'Weighing Souls With Sand' sounds immense, different to this although very roughly recorded and 'crankable', seems more erm... distant(?) to this



This feels like it is happening right in front of me idk, not explaining this very well

Album Rating: 4.0

Hmmm yeah I can see that as well, I just don't think it works as well here. Something about this album is challenging me in a good way and I know I will come back to it again soon....just not totally in love with it

Album Rating: 3.5

I think I get what you mean Demon, as if TAP was going for a sense of something from beyond the physical world, like some kind of angelic visitation, where IT is trying for a kind of hyperreal atmosphere recreating the insane amount of stimulus overload we're stuck with now.

Album Rating: 4.5

“UUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH 000 000 000 000 000” — Metrovertigo