Otep
The God Slayer


3.0
good

Review

by pizzamachine USER (649 Reviews)
September 16th, 2023 | 104 replies


Release Date: 2023 | Tracklist

Review Summary: What could have been

This was Otep’s greatest flop and also her last album, ironically. Here she serves her typical nu-metal style with brutal screams and raps but it doesn’t quite hit in the same way it used do. Otep is still a very convincing frontwoman, but there are many parts in the album that feel awkward, or even difficult to listen. The puzzle isn’t quite put together in the smoothest way, and it leads to moments that might make you uncomfortable. I like Otep’s music generally, so it’s a huge shame that her final artistic moment is in her most lacking album. Ostracized is an example of the kind of music Otep was always great at making sound emotional. Skip this album and head to better Otep releases.



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pizzamachine
September 16th 2023


28304 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Glad I found time to review this. :]

artiswar
September 16th 2023


16760 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

was about to ask you if you were going to review this but you beat me to it. i just finished it and it was so awful i’m actually depressed now. and that eminem cover… just kill me. pizza, you are far to kind to this abomination. your optimism and ability to find a silver lining in any turd is admirable but confounding

pizzamachine
September 16th 2023


28304 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

It’s a bit disappointing and jarring, but it’s grown on me a lot after more listens. The Eminem cover is quite something, yeah haha.

TheArtofTheGanja
September 16th 2023


463 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

I tried but still can't stand Otep

pizzamachine
September 16th 2023


28304 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

It is a very cynical day on Sputnikmusic

artiswar
September 16th 2023


16760 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

I'm the token resident Otep fan on here and even I hate this lol. It's not even cynicism. This is just so bad I feel violated

pizzamachine
September 16th 2023


28304 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Considering your rating, I have transcended god status and am the ultimate Otep fan. A 1 is pure madness

artiswar
September 16th 2023


16760 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

Haha I'll just be the token Kittie fan then. I listened to this on my way home from work and it ruined my entire day

pizzamachine
September 16th 2023


28304 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

you let yourself ruin your day, matie :[. Hope your day gets better

artiswar
September 16th 2023


16760 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

What? No, it's all her fault. Your recent album is like 100 times better than this, auto-tune and all, and this lady has been at it for 20+ years. The wheels have completely come off of this tricycle, it's intervention time at this point

pizzamachine
September 16th 2023


28304 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Lmao thanks bro 😂

DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
September 16th 2023


19078 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

Words cannot describe just how bad this album is. I'd rather listen to 30STM's new album, at least the cringe is significantly dumbed down on that. Her vocals on this are so dumbfoundingly terrible, it's like she's wilfully trying to make the worst vocal takes possible.

artiswar
September 16th 2023


16760 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

I seriously contemplated suicide for the duration of this thing, and I'm a stalwart defender of Hydra which everyone hated apparently. Make that make sense.

pizzamachine
September 16th 2023


28304 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Death is overrated

DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
September 16th 2023


19078 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

yeah, I don't get your appeal for hydra, that's a pretty bad record too haha. but this thing. goddamn. i don't know much of anything about otep, but i think she's quite a contentious character, so it literally wouldn't surprise me if she wrote this just to piss her detractors off lol. because i can't get my head around just how unfathomably awful this is.

artiswar
September 16th 2023


16760 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

The tracks that weren't spoken word on Hydra were actually good. This thing is just pure full-blown AIDS

DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
September 16th 2023


19078 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

i mean, wtf is happening at the minute. i very rarely dish out 1s, because i manage to find some redeeming quality from even the shittest sound, but i've fired out two 1s in the space of a day.

DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
September 16th 2023


19078 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

well, hydra looks like a game-changer next to this.

bellovddd
September 16th 2023


7756 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

purity cover is awesome

artiswar
September 16th 2023


16760 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

it's really not



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