song rules but god damn that album art is ugly. not even Tool would accept that.

Great cleans

2 likes and I Will 1 this without listening to it

album art is cute

Where did they drop him

2/5

This is pretty awesome.

“ not even Tool would accept that.” implying Tool has had anything but great album art? What a stupid take

cool song

dude this is mediocre at best

"implying Tool has had anything but great album art? What a stupid take"

Fear Inoculum would like a word.

Pretty cool track

This is solid

"Fear Inoculum would like a word."

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and imo the album art for Kin is kinda sweet 8)

heaviestofart.com has a really good in-depth review of the album artwork, along with an interview with both Ben (the guitarist) and Jillian (his wife and the artist).

"It flows in and out of reality and fantasy, the reality being about a mental illness and self-division caused by trauma. You create this shadow self from the trauma, created from the story Phil told on ‘The Valley’. That’s more of the reality of the situation. When it starts getting into the fantasy component, it starts talking about the inner battles and these battles being two two different people and battling. As you can see on the album art, they’re both the same person and they’re connected by a sort of cosmic, stardust matter. They’re the same person, the same being, but it’s a battle that’s happening within them. They’re completely different when you look farther inside."

"Jillian: It was different in that Ben had a very specific idea and I transcribed that idea onto canvas. It was very important for me to bring the discussion of fine art back into music. Back in the day, King Crimson, Tool, and all these bands had this really distinct look to them. There are certain things that you can do with Photoshop that you can’t do with paint, but I wanted to prove that there are certain things that you could do with paint that you cannot do with Photoshop, so that was very important to me. This is pointillism, of course, so my influences here were Alex Grey, Yayoi Kusama, and Salvador Dalí. I wanted to bring a surreal element to it with the preciseness of Dalí but with the madness method of Yayoi, if that makes any sense."

heaviestfart.com?

fascinating

That said, I really like the song and the fact that they are going with The Valley formula (it seems that they are thinking about a trilogy, which makes me happy) and the song just goes so fucking hard and it's beautiful at the same time. I still need, though, another track to be able to say that I REALLY like this - what made The Valley great was the general vibe that was around the whole record.

i hope the baby is okay

is it just me or this song sounds awfully muffled and "quiet" like mixed too low? I went from listening to the new Jinjer to checking this out now and i had to turn up the volume a lot to hear it and still cant really hear it clearly.
Song is good, Whitechapel by the numbers (which is good but i want to hear the whole album first)

that's because jinjer's new album has a really good production in comparison

it's super dense but everything's very distinct at the same time

That section at 2:25 is a bit Tool-esque

no, don't use such insulting adjectives

@Pikazilla thanks!


makes sense! Im loving the production on wallflower it's so detailed

great track, looking forward to this one seeing how much The Valley ruled

His cleans are nice and the rest is a snoozefest.

I actually kind of dig this. Didn't expect those cleans but I like them. I always had a senseless hatred for this band for no reason. Seen them live a few times and the first time it was Revocation, Cattle Decapitation, them and Job for a Cowboy. I recall two kids with Whitechapel shirts on booing Cattle and then heckling Revocation throughout their set. Dave from Revocation at one point said "we're gonna speed it up on this next one" and one of the Whitechapel kids screamed "HOW ABOUT YOU SPEED YOUR WAY OFF OF THE STAGE!". I think those kids triggered my pointless hatred of these guys. Gonna jam their most recent album and see what's up!

Great track but the clean vocals and that guitar with delay sound exactly like A Perfect Circle. Artwork is horrendous but I'm looking forward to this album, I have enjoyed every release since they ditched the deathcore after A New Era of Corruption.

Lopan, Superman, every single Power Ranger

Just recently watched Big Trouble in Little China again and it holds up

Phenomenal movie. Freaked me out as a kid though.

Same. It really is though. Love me some Carpenter all around.

0:50

yes (metal core vibes)

also people saying their art sucks... ill take the artistic UFO vibes cover ANY DAY over their proto metal album covers with nails and humans being tortured and shit lmao

How can they drop him if he's lost

Sweet song

Fear Inoculum’s main artwork was fine, the art direction for the physical releases included in the booklet and packaging was honestly incredible. Some really cool images.

Whitechapel Drop 'Lost Boy'

well i hope they find him!

Alex Rüdinger tracked the drums for this album. That alone has me hyped for this.

Wow, this on first listen sounds a lot better than anything off their last couple. Reminds me of their self titled a bit.

Like @SputnikSweetheart I'm also not a fan of this mix. Muffled describes it pretty good. I think they wanted to not compress everything to bits so you can actually make out all guitars and the bass. Kinda worked in that it's not bricked and loud, but it's weird. For example the vocals are so far back in the mix in the 2nd half of the song it's not even subtle.

With all that being said, the song still slaps. They're the best metal band around and it's not close.

yeah the singing in the last half was honestly unnecessary IMO, the screams and lyrics are so good before that, it was almost not as on point with the vibe

Damn this rips. Was surprised

Why? Last album was good

Yeah but I think that may be why haha. Wasn’t sure they could do it again