1st! Very impressed right now, more versatility than we have had in past offerings in my opinion.

Reptile is even better than I expected it to be. Somehow not one of those 17 minutes felt forced or filler. That transition to heavy around the 10 minute mark is so natural and delicious. also...CHVRCH BVRNER. What a fucking weird/dark/heavy-as-balls track.

this albs weird idk how i feel about it gonna need some time to settle into what theyre doing here

it's definitely weird. an electronic track, an EP-lengthed epic, a track that ends with "suck my balls"....god bless periphery

bless them for not taking themselves too seriously, this is gold

masterminds eh?

The entire cumulation of this album filled with genuinely emotional content is "suck my balls". Really legendary stuff.

definitely their most straightforward album, which is probably the reason why it's their best album

"definitely their most straightforward album"

Toondude, are you even listening to the right album bro?

This album is all over the place. But in a good way.

Definitely their weirdest album to date. Love the variety, and spencer's screams just keep improving! By the way, his highest note ever hit is on satellites. Love it!!

Yeah I actually didn’t mind Spencer on this album at all. Usually can’t stand his vocals but he seems to have hit his stride.

masterminds

mastermen

periphmenry

The link doesn’t work for me

Damn

Where do you live Notrap? Works for me just fine in the US.

"The link doesn’t work for me"
it's okay, I'll describe it to you: it sounds exactly like every single one of any of their other albums, as well as all of their contemporaries.

Portugal

Copyright issues probably

copyright strike on their own channel?

I literally made an account just to point out this stupid comment
"it sounds exactly like every single one of any of their other albums, as well as all of their contemporaries"

This is their only good album since P2 while also being pretty unique compared to P3 or Juggernaut. That's all, logging out now.

There must be a conflict of interests with the Portuguese label, well...I have to wait until April 5

'I literally made an account just to point out this stupid comment

"it sounds exactly like every single one of any of their other albums, as well as all of their contemporaries"'

Rekt

"it's okay, I'll describe it to you: it sounds exactly like every single one of any of their other albums, as well as all of their contemporaries."

This is actually extremely inaccurate.

"This is actually extremely inaccurate."
oh, I apologise; this one is 6 hours and 29 minutes long, as opposed to their usual 6 hours and 30 minutes long

Easiest 5 of my life besides Juggernaut and Parallax II (btbam)

Parallax II rules

"oh, I apologise; this one is 6 hours and 29 minutes long, as opposed to their usual 6 hours and 30 minutes long"

You're just embarrassing yourself bruh.

Their best album by a long stretch.

Death Grips did it first

satellites is really fucking good

CHVRCH BVRNERS is pretty fucking cool, at least as long as Spencer is screaming; the singing bits are a bit bland and feel out of place.

Papa can you actually name one...just one...other band that actually sounds remarkably similar to this band or this particular album. I’m gonna be super impressed if you can pull this off because I listen to a ton of shit like this and I can’t think of any band that closely resembles the enigma that is this band.

This shit is straight up bad

Epic album. This is their best album indeed.

most of the time I cannot tell the difference between these prog metal bands.
this, Tesseract, Erra, The Contortionist. those are just the ones I can name out of top of my head. sounds all the same to me.

My dude, ERRA is 100% melodic metalcore making them solidly 50% different from Periphery. And all of these vocalists are wildly different from each other. Both in sound and overall persona. You could just as easily say that black metal bands sound the same, or all 80s post-punk bands sound the same. Not saying Periphery is the best thing ever, because they’re not...but saying this album sounds like all of its contemporaries is just silly.

in all honesty, this is what it feels like to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT5Gpp4W1cA
then again, that's what it most likely feels like to people, when I try to explain the differences in post-punk, so I guess I am wrong. but I still stand by my snappy snarky comments from earlier.

"i can't tell the difference between this band and that band" almost always means "I don't listen to this band and that band". it's just a haughty way of saying it.

there was a time when I listened to pretty much every new prog metal/prog metalcore album that came out and I gave up trying to distinguish them after about 6 of them. (think it was in 2016)

Yeah exactly. If it’s a genre you simply don’t listen to, then why even try to compare them to all the other bands you don’t listen to

yes.
but good lord, what the hell IS the difference between any of Periphery songs?

Not sure where to start, like yo they have a brutally fast/heavy song clocking in at 3 minutes then they have a 17 minute long epic that alternates between soft and heavy. And that’s just THIS album. They have a double LP where the first half is more chill and the second half is dark, heavy, and technical. They have a couple songs you could hear on the radio, they have a purely electronic song, they’ve infused jazz elements, like honestly the reason I like them is because of how much variety they produced.

"this, Tesseract, The Contortionist. those are just the ones I can name out of top of my head. sounds all the same to me."

Fuckin A bro. That's like not being able to tell the difference between The Police, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Joy Division. Maybe you should spend more than 30 seconds listening to one of those bands.

tbh, Periphery, Teeseract, and Contortionist are pretty different bands

eh..

Lol why are you even in this thread dude?

I made a snarky comment and then made the mistake of posting a follow-up, which sucked me into the whirlpool of caring what people think of it and before I know it, trolling has turned into a lecture.
I need to learn how to shitpost properly.

who cares, they all suck

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Crush is the biggest surprise on here, but holy shit do they pull that sound off. Experimentation is off the charts with this album, but boy, do they pull it off here unlike P3.

Band blowz agreed. m/

Yeah, Crush is my fave track on this right now. Who'd have thought they'd fucking slay with a symphonic industrial/synthwave track?

I hate this website

Reptile is noice

It sounds like this is better than P3. Definitely gotta check it out

Papa Universe is so ignorant its astounding lol

Periphery IV: This Time It's Early

After first listen this is between a 3,5/4 for me. I enjoyed it, but its not amazing for me. Maybe it clicks more after a few more listens.

really hope Crush grows on me more. Like they nailed the sound, but I haven't figured out if I like it yet lol

Album rips. And you know it'll get better with each listen. Band is without a doubt the GOAT.

Yup, also from Portugal and can't open it due to copyright issues... I'll just wait it out

average is up to 3.9 so far. just keeps rising. sweet

so nobody is gonna say anything about the blatant Sikth bite @ the 7:40 mark?

@JeetJeet
Periphery are pretty up-front about their love of and influence from SikTh, but at the same time SikTh has acknowledged Periphery as the logical next step to their sound. Spencer was a guest vocalist on the last SikTh album and Nolly produced it. So I mean, of course there was going to be a reference or something somewhere? This is not a surprise or shock to anyone.

This was indeed surprising. I like it.

Reptile fucking slams. Hoping the rest of the album is just as great!

@9Hammer
I love it! I'm just saying, if someone had said 2 months ago, "I bet they sneak in a reference to SikTh because they're memelords like that," I'd have said, "of course they will."

Oh no, I was more so responding to the whole "leak" thing. My bad LOL

"so nobody is gonna say anything about the blatant Sikth bite @ the 7:40 mark?"

So blatant that they had Mikee Goodman himself come in and do it. xD

Album is clapping cheeks so far.

Isnt this band supposed to be a meme

The rapping, the blatant rips, the weird attempt at post-punk, the absolute ruining of a song that was already fantastic, the subsequent attempt at erasing all the old versions of said song off the face of the internet, how do you guys like this lmao

You've already listed most of the reasons tbh.

Hmmmmm. This sounds interesting. I'll have to listen.

there's rapping in this album?

What rapping lol

We probably like it because it's really good idk.

"rapping" literally not even once on this album
"blatant rips" ???
"attempts at post-punk" ????!??!?!
"absolute ruining of a song"

okay you're grasping at straws and frankly, you're flat out wrong lol

I hate Converge because of their blatant David Bowie rip-offs and the opera-style singing they used in their last album.

See? We can all make up facts too, pretty easy

Why are you even acknowledging someone that's trying to stir the pot. It's lost effort.

Yes, but will I ever learn that? no

Rapping - church burner has that bad nu Metal revival rapping shit pop metalcore has been doing

Blatant rips - sikth riffs

Attempts at post punk - whatever that garbage that is crush is supposed to be

Absolute ruining of song - id tell you to find the old haunted shores version of sentient glow with vocals from the cyclamen split if their management hadn’t literally wiped it from the internet

Man, you don't like Periphery, yeah, we got it.. many other people like them.. why does it piss you off that much?

"Absolute ruining of song - id tell you to find the old haunted shores version of sentient glow with vocals from the cyclamen split if their management hadn’t literally wiped it from the internet"

What is it with people not knowing how to use the word "literally"?

I used to love periphery

Album does in fact, clap cheeks. I agree ill probably skip Crush every time I listen to this album, but the other songs are so good it doesn't matter.

"I used to love periphery"

Yeah, back when they were still called SikTh amirite?!

Crush is awesome.

No? Back when what they were doing was new and fresh. I was huge fanboy for the band during the singles, pre-Sumerian days.I loved the first LP and even still enjoyed the second one for the most part. Just see this shit for what it is.

"church burner has that bad nu Metal revival rapping shit pop metalcore has been doing"

you have an odd idea of what nu metal revival is

"Attempts at post punk - whatever that garbage that is crush is supposed to be"

I don't think you've listened to post punk tbh

"Just see this shit for what it is."

Seeing other people enjoy it feels like you're taking crazy pills don't it?

"Just see this shit for what it is."

What a gift you have. Pity us poor souls who cannot see or hear what is so god awful about this, as we are cursed to enjoy listening to it.

Sorry, see this shit for what it is in my opinion. Is that better bbs?

That's a really awkward statement but sure.

“I don't think you've listened to post punk tbh“

It sounds like they’re trying to do some cold cave shit to me idk

sounds like someone's triggered

Yes I’m triggered because I don’t like this and you don’t agree with my takes, got my ass

lmao good

hold on lemme try something

5.0 classic
Amorphis Queen of Time
Anberlin Devotion
Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns
Whoever says this has no emotion hasn't listened to this album. By far my favorite of the year.
Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places
Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Caspian Dust and Disquiet
Converge Jane Doe
Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and The Migrant Flora
Devin Townsend Empath
Devin Townsend Project Addicted
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence
Earthside A Dream In Static
where the fuck did this come from?
Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
In Flames Reroute to Remain
In Flames Colony
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Kamelot Karma
Kamelot Epica
Kamelot The Black Halo
Kamelot The Shadow Theory
"It's a Kamelot album that isn't Karma, Epica or The Black Halo."

Yeah, its called The Shadow Theory, so it's not those albums.
Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome
Leprous Bilateral
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Low Roar 0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Mycelia Dawn
This album, which features a deathcore/djent band, has a 13 minute song called "Drop The Baby", and it's one of the best metal songs of the year.
Norma Jean Polar Similar
O'Brother Garden Window
Paul Simon Graceland
Pearl Jam Ten
Pentakill II: Grasp of The Undying
Say what you will about a virtual band based on League of Legends and how cheesy/dumb it is, this is one of the best metal albums of the year.
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame
Sigur Ros Takk...
Silent Planet When the End Began
Steven Price Gravity
Stevens / Dessner / Muhly / McAlister Planetarium
Swallow the Sun Songs From The North I, II & III
System of a Down Toxicity
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Vektor Terminal Redux

[fat italics]got em[/fat italics]

lol ok, whatever makes you feel better

really liking the variety on this from them while still feeling like Periphery.

@JeetJeet you know that's Mikee from Sikth right? Like... There's a reason it sounds like Sikth.

Wolfe obliterated someone ITT

parry fairy

Yeah, this is easily the band's best album... was hard to top Omega, but I think they did it. What a move to get off of Sumerian; the shackles are off.

This might become a 5 quickly

Sentient Glow and Satellites are so fucking mint.

mint?

"mint?"

Its British slang for "lit", "lit fam" and/or "dope"

That’s british slang? I’m from the states and I feel like I’ve always heard it here

Yeah I’m with ButtBoy I didn’t know it was British slang either. Just wanted to use a word other than “sick” for once lmao.

Mint aka fresh.

SeNtIeNt GlOw AnD sAtElLiTeS aRe So FuCkInG mInT

why do we have to keep making dumb slang? you're not cool
nobody is cool

Shut the fuck up retard

awwww poor baby got his feelings hurt

gotta love people being dicks to each other in Sputnik threads for zero reason

it's a Periphery thread so duh

A selection of dumb slang that Kalopsia has recently used without realising it:

"nobody is cOoL"
"your donuts make me go nUtS"
"they were pretty hUgE"
"but this is mIlEs bEtTeR than most other horror films as of late"

i think you mean phrases lol

Phrases can be slang too. :]

"why do we have to keep making dumb slang"
yeah because this saying totally hasn't existed for decades. lmfao. slow day at work huh?

Gotta love keyboard warriors on the internet who throw a fit bc of “dUmB sLaNg.” Bro who gives a fuck?

Calls me a baby yet you’re the one acting like you shit your diaper over a word lmaooo

Contributing Reviewer

This thread is FIREino

the idea of a 17 minute periphery song scared the shit out of me ngl like my gripe w these guys has always been that while theyre all talented the songs were all too meandering and didnt feel fully fleshed out but fuck me they pulled it off

i cant stop spinning this didnt expect them to finally win me over this hard after trying to get into them for like 3-4 years

I honestly didn't expect them to outdo Select Difficulty for me, but they did it.

That's as much as I'll say.

I honestly didn't expect them to outdo Jugg. Omega for me, but they did it.

That's as much as I'll say.

actually considering bumping the rating, every time I listen to this the more I enjoy it. The only songs that I'm not entirely on board with are Garden in The Bones and Satellites.

Toon eating is own words right now, I love this timeline ;)

bumping from a 2 to a 2.5

You have it rated as a 4 right now lmao, you can't fool me

Satellites legit outdid Absolomb and Lune (my previous two favorite Periphery songs) for me so I can't relate, Toon.

It's Only Smiles is lowkey the best song don't @ me

“I didn’t expect them to outdo Select Difficulty”

Hmmm what’s this shit opinion I smell....oh

And yikes Tundra, I’m about to @ you. Wrong wrong wrong

That and garden are easily the worst

Follow Your Ghost >

Okay, Only Smiles ain't the best but it's really positive and I love the vibe, Reptile, Sentient Glow, Follow Your Ghost and Satellite are the best for me

Garden isn't a great song by itself, but arriving on the tail of Reptile, Blood Eagle and Church Burner it's perfect.

The only songs I'm not fully enamored of are Ghost and Sentient Glow. The former is kinda boring the latter isn't as good as the original.

Sentient Glow straight up sounds like an A7X song, and i don't mean that as a good thing. Minus the screams.

Yall wack, gn.

Nah sounds like a Haunted Shores song to me.

You mean instrumental periphery? ;-)

he did

Sounds like the best thing they've released

Second listen. I dunno. The highs on this are really fcking high, but the lows are so fcking low though. But that's a problem I've always had with Periphery. I really dislike their 'look at us we're being really heavy and technical with dissonant riffs (that serve no purpose except for making it harder for the vocalist to do anything interesting)'. When they give room for melody and actual emotion (most of Reptile, It's Only Smiles, Satellites) its 5 worthy music to me.

Best song: Follow Your Ghost/Reptile
Worst song: Crush

P1=P2>P4>Jug>P3>Clear

Omega > P2 = P4 > P1 > P3 > Alpha

this>>>>>>>rest

guess to be specific this>>>>>>>>>>>>omega>1>3>>>>>2>alpha

Blood Eagle grew on me massively, fun track.

@onion don't tell me you actually think P3 is better than P2

P4=Omega>P2>Alpha>P1>P3

IS THIS THE END OF ALL WE KNOOOWWWWWWW

P4>P2=Omega>P1>P3>Alpha

I can accept that, yea.

p3 is like half good songs half really bad ones where p2 doesn’t have like a single standout for me

like p2 doesn’t have anything trrrible on it but every song is a meandering mess p3 has a handful of solid ass songs but also motormouth and catch fire which are career lows

ragnarok and luck as a constant aren't standouts?? ragnarok is one of my all-time P favorites

Luck as A Constant
Ragnarok
Have a Blast
Mile Zero
Scarlet
Erised
Masamune

P2 songs are career highlights at best, decent at worst. Great album. But P3's highlights were higher than P2's.

I give all Periphery albums a 4.5/5 so my ranking was kinda irrelevant lol

But yeah P3 has great songs and then some meh ones, still love the album though

P4 > Juggernaut > P2 > P1 > P3

ive given p2 so so so so many tries waiting for something to stick and nothing hasb i get why p3 is viewed as the bad one but like the fact it has songs i like at all on it put it above the rest

which makes me absurdly surprised i dig this as much as i do jesus fuck

I guess I'll throw in my two cents...right now at this time my ranking would be:

Juggernaut (Omega > Alpha) > P4 > P1 (Instrumental > vocals version) = P2 > P3 > Clear EP > Icarus EP

Like most of you, I think P3 is definitely their least good although I still enjoy most of it, and I find some of the songs that are lacking, I just prefer the instrumental versions of.

Also, I find it hard to rank P1 because it was the first and started the whole thing...definitely it is lacking in production value and vocally, Spencer is nowhere near as polished as he is now. But I still hold it in high regard even though I don't come back to it very often (and even less often with the vocals).

P1 has some really cool songs (Letter, Racecar, Jetpacks, All New Materials) but suffers from bad production and weak Spencer. If P1 was recorded by 2019 Periphery, it would be in everyone's top 3.

A re-recording of P1 would be so fucking cool.

It doesn't hold up super well for all the previously stated reasons, but I still really enjoy it, and at the time of its release it was a pretty special album for me.

It is very strange for me cause I always see P3 as being 'hollow' to an extent (for lack of a better word), and then I look at the tracklisting and I'm like "that's a good song, that's a good song, that's a good song" etc. etc. I think P3 is the gray area in Periphery's discography, nothing is bad but a majority of it is kinda playing it safe

but P3 has Absolomb, Flatline, News, Lune, and Line-Stepper which are all incredible songs. Price is Wrong and Motormouth aside, P3 slams.

'simply serviceable' was not the correct phrase, my bad, I meant 'playing it safe', I love P3, but it's hard to rank Periphery's discography haha

They probably won’t re-record P1 because it really isn’t financially plausible

As much as I loved the new album Blood Eagle still bodies most of the rest. Such a monster of a track.

WE COME FOR WAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Spencer actually surprised me with those shrieks at the end, sounded heavy af.

Blood Eagle is probably my least favorite track, it's too busy trying to be heavy for most of the duration and I think that's their least interesting sound. Still a good track. Reptile is the clear winner of the album imo. Might be the best song they've ever put out.

yea singles are lower tier on this blood eagle still owns tho

also he reptile is their best song shits incredible

After about 7 or 8 listens, this is my current ranking:
1. Reptile
2. Blood Eagle
3. Chvrch Bvrner
4. Follow Your Ghost
5. Satellites
6. Sentient Glow
7. Garden in the Bones
8. Crush
9. It's Only Smiles

it’s only smiles is on of my favs ngl

1 reptile
2 satellites
3 it’s only smiles
4 sentient glow
5 crush
6 blood eagle
7 chvrch bvrner
8 follow your ghost
9 garden in the bones

Agreed, Blood Eagle is still a standout on this album. Incredible song.

Why do Periphery fans dislike Motormouth so much? It's one of the best songs on P3. Song absolutely tears arse.

Yeah I've always enjoyed motormouth. sometimes you just need a stupid heavy song that rips, and that's the sole purpose of the song

motormouth is annoying price is wrong is already a stupid enough heavy song and putting them back to back makes it way more grating

So is there any kind of significant change in style on this? Just curious

tbh, not really. Sure Blood Eagle and Church Burner are a lot heavier and Crush goes into like a industrial/synth-wave style but I wouldn't say there's nothing really drastic overall.

Just the songwriting is a lot more linear than usual, which to me already makes it better than just about anything they've come out with.

"So is there any kind of significant change in style on this? Just curious"

Gotta listen to find out. xD

Well when they don’t embrace their annoying djent shtick they can make some pretty good music.

This sounds nice, I'll definetly check this out when it drops tomorrow

the djentier the better

Garden in the Bones is the only ass song on the album

Well, it's not entirely ass, it's just another completely average Periphery song

garden in the bones kicks the everloving shit out of its only smiles

“Just the songwriting is a lot more linear than usual, which to me already makes it better than just about anything they've come out with.“ [27378383]

it’s like they finally took all their individual talent and learned how to put together a set of fully captivating songs instead of the usual 2 or 3 per album

I feel they already accomplished that on Omega tbh

"it’s like they finally took all their individual talent and learned how to put together a set of fully captivating songs instead of the usual 2 or 3 per album"

THANK YOU! That's always been my main issue with these guys.

Garden in the Bones seriously grows on you. At first its very meh but there's something about it that keeps you coming back. Great song.

Crush is the only ass song on the album.

Garden isn't a great song by itself, but it's perfectly placed on the album. After the heaviness of Reptile, Eagle and Chvrch it's a glass of cool water.

Not liked Periphery since their debut but this is definitely their best since then.

"Crush is the only ass song on the album."

Only if you don't like that particular kind of sound, because I think it kicks ass.

I think the lyrics drag Crush down a little. I hate lyrics that say "We are the _____" or "We are ____"

it's cheesy. who is 'we'. your band? your generation? lel

Glad you got some enjoyment out of it Plebby boi. You forgot to shoutbox me back though :,c

i mean all periphery is cheesy let’s be real ive just not paid much attention to the lyrics here so i can keep enjoying it lol

garden is really well placed yea. this album as a whole is sequenced exceptionally well

Onion is right haha. I actually found a lot more enjoyment out of P3 when I just tuned Spencer out entirely lmao. However, on this album, I can actually say I think he fits the band really well. He really stepped up on this one.

i haven’t rlly cared for the lyrics that i have picked up here but they’re nowhere near as embarrassing as something like lune

DO YOU FEEL THE LOVE?
YES I FEEL THE LOVE!

I'm scared to admit that the song actually gets me sometimes.


Woops

Can't wait for this sow to be out on Spotify tommorow.

lune compositionally is the perfect d minor overblown epic power ballad thing and spencer’s vocal melody on it is outstanding but once you pay attention to the lyrics shit kinda falls apart

yeah lune is not great.
"Can't wait for this sow to be out on Spotify tommorow." [2]

Nah, Lune IS great, but the lyrics are such a big flaw

"Medicine flowing through my veeeeins" oh yea so edgy bro

Lune kicks ass, but I don't really mind the lyrics anyway haha

I love the lyrics on this album too. They are a touch absurd at times (see: basically the entire concept of "Reptile") but I'd argue that most Periphery lyrics aren't that bad.

Side note: the biggest reason Lune and Absolomb were so high up for me on my "favorite songs list" was their lyricism, but I guess not everyone's into personally-tinged writing like I am.

Personal lyrics are fine, but if their execution is clichéd cringe ... you get the idea.

DONT LET GOOOOOO

I mean yeah, "Lune" is nigh-objectively corny but it makes it work. That arrangement is still stellar.

Also this is easily my fave Periphery since PII and I've still more or less dug everything they've put out. "Reptile" and "Satellites" are some next-level shit.

It's Only Smiles sounds like a Papa Roach song circa 2008, but surprisingly catchy. Still maintain that Blood Eagle is pretty garbage, especially for a single. Crush is pretty good on it's own, just seems a little out of place within the context of the album.

Rest of the album is actually pretty good, probably the best they've put out since P2.

> Personal lyrics are fine, but if their execution is clichéd cringe ... you get the idea.

Absolutely. Compare PTH - Scurrilous with the first 5-6 songs on Volition. Similar styles of being themed around something important to the writer, but executed 100x better. Even on the same album, "Plato’s Tripartite" is executed way better than "A Life Embossed."

"Blood Eagle is pretty garbage"
I bet you don't even like apple pie you freak

tbh i still can't really afford to be picky when my "feels" playlist is still only about 388 songs...not even half of what i want it to be.

Didn't think I would ever hear someone say that Blood Eagle is garbage.
You heard it here first folks.

its probably the worst song on here but its still at least a 9/10 track

It is absolutely not the worst track here. If anything it’s in the top half. It’s got one of their heaviest riffs ever and one of their best guitar solos ever. It shits all over It’s Only Smiles and Sentient Glow

Dude, the lyrical content in It's Only Smiles makes it one of the best on the album, period

I seriously enjoy It's Only Smiles. It's catchy and the ending is damn beautiful. I'd put it in the top half. Just depends on what you like. Blood Eagle doesn't really scratch the itch for people that like their more melodic or emotional material, the same way Smiles and Crush may not be people who just want heavy riffs. I guess I'm lucky because I thoroughly enjoy all of it.

Satellites is such a good closer, you think its gonna end mellow but then they repeat the same line with the heaviness, so freakin good, what is said at the end of the track though lol

this band's entire career has built to the final three words on this album, let's be real lol

Their long-awaited response to KILL's review probably.

"Suck my balls" best part of the album Kappa

Goddamn it’s at a 4 right now

Don't jinx it goddammit

that's cuz all the fanboys are here first to 5 it before anyone else

Yeah, that's why it was like a 3.2 before it was even leaked. Those damn fanbois. xD

Yeah I check every day and it only goes up every day. But I bet it’ll come down a little once the anti hype shows up

I mean even on RYM it's at a 3.76 right now. There's no way in hell that's staying as high as it is. Especially since even the new Devin Townsend is only at a 3.61.

What is it about RYM? Seems like everyone's talking about it all of a sudden.

This is one big meh for me. Not my style of metal at all.

"Yeah, that's why it was like a 3.2 before it was even leaked. Those damn fanbois. xD"

it was @ 3.9 actually