I'm hoping the production on the rest of the album is better than on this single, cause Jesus Fucking Christ, it sounds absolutely awful with that bass overriding everything. It's damn near impossible to discern anything else going on in the song.

this is one of the worst things i've ever heard in my life

Wow that was terrible. What the fuck is this drum sound

More pretentious unlistenable garbage… they gotta be a music industry plant at this point. That single can make ears bleed literally at high volume.

That's genuinely one of the worst production jobs I have ever heard. What were they thinking?

Good lord what a hot pile of shit.

Not that anything they've ever put out is good, but this is like they listened to what Avenged Sevenfold just put out and said "hold my beer"

this band is the definition of a one trick pony, and its not even a very good trick

Noodly guitars over a generic hip hop beat woah really breaking new ground here guys

The drums don't even sound real lol

Band has always pissed me off

i don't mind more electronic-centric production, buuut that mix is sounds like a cheap laptop speaker or likee, when your friends friend wants to show everyone their car stereo and it's just trebly bullshit but you don't want to kill the vibe cause he thinks it's great

Absolutely heinous production, that bass is genuinely some of the most offensive shit I've ever heard. Actually unlistenable.

Doesn't help that they're still doing their some old obnoxious thing. I think Muse is a good album, but everything after is just soulless wank.

Man, all the musicians are top notch IMO...but this production ain't it. In a world where AI slop is running rampant, this kind of sound feels so artificial. What the hell is with the Call of Duty Montage bass boosting? It's like you're listening to a subwoofer from a car down the road. Awful.

All their songs sound the same to me and they're all kinda forgettable.

the bass sounds like a fart machine. the production on this is something else. song is terrible to boot.

I try steer away from overly critical commentary on this site about music that I don't even care about. But if we are talking about this or Statica - hold my beer. Genuinely awful. I feel like no one should listen to this, ever.

feels like an arms race for who can achieve the shittiest production in 2026

"We are so good at playing our instruments, we have nowhere left to go. That's why we started using the the chirpy sound of bass clipping as a new texture in our mix." - Polyphia, Probably

I generally like Polyphia's music and there's certainly a scintilla of quality that is barely detectable here, but they need to get a producer that isn't RJ Pasin. They just do not mesh well and they need to not sign off of an obviously botched production job.

yeah this production is horrible

Yes this sounds really terrible, but at least it's not AI

For being such a talented band, I'm baffled that they sat in the studio listening to this absolute piece of shit song and thought "it's perfect!" I've lost a lot of respect for this band after hearing this garbage.

not music

Statica doesn't seem that bad now

lmao those drums

on panzerfaust there's a riff where fenriz just chugs one note and then bends it at the end and it's the coolest riff. these guys play with six arms but don't know what a song is.

Truly unbearable

Their drummer is actually very good, and they just choose to murder him with this prod.

You know it’s bad when even the reaction channels on YT have to lower the volume on their headphones or taking them off mid listen

Them releasing a song that sounds like this feels like gaslighting. Like they made it god awful on purpose just to pretentiously claim is so bad it's actually really good. But wtf is this shit for real

I had no idea what this band sounded like, so I checked them out to see if you guys were serious, and OMG, you weren't kidding!

They’re not even doing anything interesting with this production. There’s no conceptual basis here, it’s just dreadful across the board, including the playing.

"I generally like Polyphia's music and there's certainly a scintilla of quality that is barely detectable here, but they need to get a producer that isn't RJ Pasin. They just do not mesh well and they need to not sign off of an obviously botched production job." [2]

yeah really loved their last few albums but this is doa if the entire thing is mixed like this. sounds like total shit

From the limited information I've seen regarding the album's production and hearing it myself, supposedly the writing and mix was engineered so AI couldn't replicate their sound. Adding to it, there's audio samples with implication of religion in its messaging, and the blattiness of the mix could be attuned to some subliminal messaging there too. From a more notable and bigger artist, this might be impressive. But...Polyphia? There's a limited fanbase here to begin with for their music, and if anything all of this is probably just an echo-chamber if I had to guess.

"Can You Feel It" was good, not really crazy about this song, but I'll check out the album. Really dug their last one and was hoping they'd kind of stick to that same sound this time

I thought their The Most Hated album was a fun foray into the prog/electronic/hiphop mix, but them actually committing to that style has been brutal.

the epitome of performative noodling.

"supposedly the writing and mix was engineered so AI couldn't replicate their sound"

good intentions i guess but a) how could you possibly counteract that? and b) even if you could why would you so heavily sacrifice the quality of the music over that?

That would only make sense if they did that with every piece of music they release going forward. Doing it once and then going back to normal, what would be the point. The more likely scenario, because it's very common, is that they are good musicians that make bad music.

To fight against AI plagiarizing us, we shall compose and mix like children! That'll learn em!

yeah let me prevent AI from stealing my music by making it sound like shit

yup that is smart

"supposedly the writing and mix was engineered so AI couldn't replicate their sound"

I'd rather listed to AI over this any day, and that's saying something. This is pretty much an audial lobotomy. It's like when Metallica fought Napster by making music so bad nobody wanted to download it.

AI can never replicate the human touch. At least this song has that much.

I'm an AI hater but I've definitely heard AI tracks that I would much rather listen to. What a dumb reason to make your music sound like shit.

Jesus guys you're really gonna make me check out a new Polyphia song in the year of our lord 2026

I don't even like these guys but the fact that I'm seeing comments saying this is WORSE than AI? Now you guys have my curiosity.

It really makes the new Avenged Sevenfold seem not as bad

That's how I felt when I listened to trash Tyga album lol

Yes this song makes my ears bleed, but I'd still rather that than have a robot singing to me

Prods dogshit, in other news Number 12 Looks like you just released a ripper of a single

I actually like the band but that's just ear fatigue achieved in just one song

Annoying soulless guitarwork drowned by insanely loud bass. What a terrible "song".

Abysmal dogshit. Skillslop. Music for wankers

I highly doubt this is the final mix lol

Why upload a video with unfinalized music? Lol cope harder

i mean it does happen but polyphia has always had this kinda digitally crushed sound for the past decade, sounds like a direction they purposely seek. if people backlash enough they'll probably put out a retooled version next year with like 3 more tracks.

But, like, genuinely who would think this sounds acceptable? This is actually one of their better tracks that I've heard, but the clipping destroys it

Sometimes the band thinks they are breaking ground or doing something new with their prod/sound. In reality its unlistenable garbage people probably told them that but then gave up trying to help them

Polyphia more like PolyphiSUCKS haha

As a guitar player, I absolutely hate this band.

I think they're all good players, Henson is obviously on a different level. However, if you start alluding to the fact that you're all the best and all that shit like they do with their song titles, then put out something that sounds like a FL studio trap template with some guitar noodling over it, with awful production, as a single - yeah you're gonna get laughed at lol.