Album Rating: 4.0

also that album art is meant to bring you back to being a horny 13 year old



i guess they knew what they were doing, i was 12 when meteora came out

Album Rating: 3.5

"i'm a bit over the piling into the 2000s era style that's been happening right now"



It'll subside in a while, like the 80s synth that was in everything not too long ago. Still there but not forced into every song

Album Rating: 3.5

Some of these riffs are so Linkin Park though and I love it lol

Album Rating: 4.0

the problem is they waited far too long to get this out



my ticket home was done, they left a large void and nobody had really taken the ball and ran with it yet. somebody's closer was a breath of fresh air in 2021



but now you have 1001 deftones clones who have seen how popular split chain has become overnight by essentially ripping these guys off (even the fucking logo is the same with the circle around it) and capitalizing off 90s nostalgia with drop c# 0-1-0-4 style power riffs and melodic vocals

i've even seen a few people suggesting bleed is ripping them off lol. kudos to split chain for how well they've done, but they definitely weren't the first ones to throw it back to the 90s



the real reason this sound blew up is youngest daughter going viral on tiktok

Album Rating: 3.5

If you like this album you might also like Seventh Dose - Delirium.



They sound quite similar although Seventh Dose lean more into shoegaze than Bleed.

Album Rating: 4.0

the more i listen to this the more it comes across as a collection of singles than an actual album

Album Rating: 4.0

will cheq seventh dose



these guys might not be doing anything original but i think they stand above the other revival alt metalgaze stuff just by virtue of the vocals not sucking

makes sense this is on 20buckspin. weird how no matter the sub-genre, most of their releases always feels to me like the vibes and aesthetic is there but there is basically no memorable song-writing

i'll remember the general sound of this but couldnt remember a single moment from any song on it

This album is so damn good

Album Rating: 3.5

Hell yeah bloc



They leaned pretty heavy into the LP worship on here. Somebody's Closer felt like it had more of a unique identity

Album Rating: 3.5

I dig split chain too, but the logo being identical is ridiculous lol

Album Rating: 3.5

can't believe I didn't notice that until now holy shit lol

“the real reason this sound blew up is youngest daughter going viral on tiktok”

nah there’s more to it than that

deftones
hum

it goes back

? don't people's youngest daughters go viral on tik tok every day, that's what it's for right.

even their oldest daughters but no one writes songs about them except their spiteful sisters

Album Rating: 4.0

nobody gave a shit about hum until inlet

Album Rating: 3.5

Idk man Stars was pretty big back in the day



Astronaut and Downward are super underrated in the grand scheme of things tho

Tik tok was mostly responsible for the renaissance of deftones popularity and youngest daughter really popularised this sound but most deftones esque bands were already putting shit out a few years before it

Soul blind, moodring, day aches, narrowhead etc

So it was already making a comeback

“nobody gave a shit about hum until inlet”

lmao wrongggg

Album Rating: 4.5

This album absolutely rips. Nu metal is SO FUCKING BACK BABY!