Review Summary: The Shape Of Djent To Come
Preface: seriously, if you don't like this album, there's something wrong with you. Here's why:
If you're on sputnikmusic.com, you hate the djent tag because it's a bland, stale genre, but when presented with somewhat technical djent, you love it, because you love meshuggah.
This is better than meshuggah.
If you say you don't like any djent, you're wrong and a pussy.
There is why you objectively love the album.
Sub-Preface: I don't actually think this album is a 5. It's a 4. That was a setup for the joke that was the preface. Onto the real review.
Review: Who the *** is meshuggah, am I right? Meshuggah is the Black Sabbath of djent in that they created the genre but are simultaneously the worst in the genre. My ranking of djent bands goes:
1.Fronterier
2. Car Bomb
3. Periphery
4. Tony Danza
5. Meshuggah
There are only 5 djent bands.
Review Section 2: When I first heard Car Bomb, I was immediately put on notice. Wwww^^^www had an aspect of technicality and intensity I'd never heard in a djent band before, and the production gave it a lifeless aesthetic that made it feel somehow even more ferocious. It sounded like it was made by machines, which was oddly appealing. Alas, something still felt missing. (Spoiler: it might have been decent production)
It was decent production. That's what it was missing. Man From Gojira gets on this and produced the hell out of it. Like man, he made those guitars sound HARD, and those drums, HARD AS HELL. Sounds like it was made by humans, which now that I remember, is better than having it sound lifeless.
Songwriting is a dead term in djent. Us djent musicians; djenters, if you will, call it djentwriting, or thallwriting. The thallwriting on this is almost UNPARALLELED. You get songs like opener, From The Dust Of This Planet, in which the guitarist thalls down the fretboard. You get songs like “Constant Sleep”, in which there's a BIG thall, and then a bunch of tiny thalls over some whispers and funky dissonant guitars. You get multiple songs with PHASER THALLS. PHASER THALLS!!!!!!
VOCALIST GOES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
TOOOO. THEEEE. GRAAAAAAAAAAAVVVEEEE.
