 | Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium
3.9
excellent
| Ranking: #141 for 2006 | |
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| 3.0 good | Thor | July 5th 10 |
In a Flesh Aquarium is the soundtrack to the itchiest asshole you've ever had.
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| 1.5 very poor | Moneylishi | December 15th 22 |
My goodness was this annoying to listen too. I get that they're unique and quirky, but that doesn't make it good. Also contains elements of one of my least favorite types of music ever: circus music.
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| 4.5 superb | transgoggle | February 27th 17 |
I feel like the "wackiness" or whatever of this gets a bit overstated. This is no band like Estradasphere that tries to dabble in every style they can, nor do they use theatricality as some kind of crutch. In fact, remove the chamber musical embellishments and you're left with something like Arsis, Psycroptic, Spawn of Possession, which is to say, songs driven by complex riff progression, that are still interesting. It's not to say however that their keyboardist and violinist are just there for show, nor that they would marr the band's metal side, no, i think they add a lot of depth, emphasis, impact to the riffage as well as obviously, a sense of grandeur, which somehow the convoluted songwriting just amplifies rather than detracts from. It genuinely feels like a Bosch painting. In turn i think this goth metal arrangement also heightens the contrast of a quick transition between riffs by having another shifting layer, thus the impact, tech death just feels so grey most of the time. So you get a record with innumerable unique memorable moments you can get hooked one-by-one each spin, and one that seems like a mess at first but slowly reveals connectivities, all of which makes it daunting though rewarding in the long run. Even the interludes sound like they had a lot of work put into them.
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| 3.0 good | Alex C. | March 12th 15 |
Full unexpected wackiness. Too much wackiness, to be fair
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| 4.0 excellent | mkamrass | July 28th 14 |
This album is insane in all the directions it goes musically...very UNEXPECTED but awesome.
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| 4.0 excellent | NeutralThunder12 | July 5th 10 |
This shit is fucking weirdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
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| 0.0 | Bitchfork | May 1st 10 |
high 2/low 2.5. I want to hate this and in a lot of ways I do (fuck that violin, fuck the vocals, fuck the same structures, fuck the midsection) but there's something.
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| 0.0 | Plutonio | April 7th 10 |
This album pushes more musical boundaries than one could expect: they combine operatic voices, black metal, and strings with such odd genres as jazz, circus metal, and world music. Never does this album exude the obnoxious homogeny of Animal Collective releases, or does it exude the WTF? feel of Crotchduster. It's just pure fucking awesome.
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| 4.5 superb | Pebster49 | December 14th 07 |
Yes, this is the best album of the year of 2006,in Metal, not only is it great in musicianship it is something that has never been even dreamed about. Its so crazy, its so out there it has to be number one just on its creativity. This album is was everything I thought I would never like, but it has really stretched out my horizons and how I look at music nowadays. The drummer with his pounding double bass the violin, the 9-string Base player, the guitars going every which way, the piano, the death growling, the great vocals by their lead woman lead singer. All this in one band, and in this album it was all put together. Really I don?t know where to describe this album, but it has the heart and the great song writing now one can imagine. Each song is a emotional roller coaster you never want to get off of, because its so different and so unlike anything you have ever heard. If you have a open mind about music, I mean a real open mind, this is a great album from you.
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| 0.0 | Acidicity | January 9th 07 |
Do you guys know why Mr. Bungle sucks? Because they inspired a legion of bands who toss together seven genres, transition roughly and poorly between them, and play them simply and uninspired once they get there. Fortunately, UneXpect is not one of those bands. Circus black metal done right. It's rare that a band can create a "chaotic" album without sounding extraordinarily pretentious, but looks like UneXpcet showed us a thing or two. Do you want to hear a bold pronouncement? Here it is: all of the other bands in this genre, save one, can die. You listening, Zu and Garden Wall? Give me UneXpect and Estradasphere, and the rest can burn in hell.
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| 4.0 excellent | qt | August 1st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brabiz | February 28th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | PHClock | July 29th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Spag | April 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nate | April 3rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | CygnusX1 | December 15th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Fear | December 11th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Santet | September 11th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Leeb890 | April 27th 17 |
| 3.0 good | 2ool | March 15th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Seiketsu | November 28th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tib | June 28th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | shem | February 28th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Pavera | September 21st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ortheore | September 6th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abraxas | November 26th 14 |
| 2.5 average | ariich | October 7th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Landen | April 19th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Valkura | January 25th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | zethmal | November 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | gagnonov | November 14th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | stabbler | November 10th 13 |
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| 4.5 superb | Ulshad | July 3rd 13 |
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| 3.5 great | N2B3J | January 23rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | MRDi | January 23rd 13 |
| 3.5 great | Tale | January 16th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Shimana | December 21st 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Legit | October 22nd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | NeoSpaz | October 8th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Angris | July 20th 12 |
| 3.5 great | jet22 | July 3rd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Diton | March 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | svjchtr | December 14th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kaozz16 | December 10th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Andrew | December 4th 11 |
| 2.5 average | JKoppe | November 30th 11 |
| 1.5 very poor | Kenos | October 30th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | trueKVLT | September 5th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Acre | July 23rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Phate72 | July 18th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | tnp101 | July 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | leycec | July 17th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | June 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | dnor | June 9th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kellen | June 6th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Altmer | June 2nd 11 |
| 3.0 good | Wolfe | April 24th 11 |
| 3.0 good | 37er00 | February 24th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Inveigh | November 18th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oceans | November 2nd 10 |
| 5.0 classic | iamdave | October 28th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mewcopa | October 21st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | abumafoo | September 17th 10 |
| 3.5 great | ziroth | July 30th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Isoas | July 1st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kleur | May 18th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | Niels | May 16th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | OllieS | May 14th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | SHINFO | April 13th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Chunsak | April 12th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | Kzero | April 9th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | CutMan | February 17th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Hoenir | February 14th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | vdop | February 12th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | drewkar | December 28th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Awake88 | December 12th 09 |
| 2.5 average | BigTuna | December 9th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Kronzo | December 8th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shadow17 | November 26th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | kaleb | October 29th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | avestin | October 18th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Set | September 17th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Stones99 | September 6th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Modock | August 19th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Goup09 | June 29th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Shaad | June 25th 09 |
| 5.0 classic | Ionzorg | February 11th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Medika | September 20th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bleak | July 23rd 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Phasing | June 27th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | grief | February 14th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thyrm | January 21st 08 |
| 2.5 average | D0wN | November 18th 07 |
| 4.5 superb | Zoo | October 7th 07 |
| 5.0 classic | goozink | October 2nd 07 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tyler EMERITUS | August 22nd 06 |
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