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| 4.0 excellent | Comatorium. | January 27th 16 |
The first metal album in a while that's gotten me excited. This is some solid stuff.
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| 3.0 good | gilly | August 8th 16 |
I was not impressed with this album. But then I saw these guys live and was absolutely blown away. I figured I needed to give it another shot, but I still was not overly impressed. Moral of the story: See these guys live whenever possible
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| 2.5 average | cjbizzlebizzle | February 24th 16 |
Nocturnal Masquerade by Toothgrinder sounds like a band torn between styles with clear songwriting prowess and general instrumental talents but as a whole the package falls... flat. Each song flows by naturally and transitions between segments are like butter. Combine that with intense hardcore vocals, Southern rock rhythms, proggy structures, occasional ambient bliss and clean production and what could possibly go wrong? Well, first of all get a vocalist that needs to rifle off cliche lyrics in quick succession and turn that track way up drowning out the superior instrumentation. The vocal outbursts in Lace & Anchor and Coeur d'Alene (the ending about nursery rhymes is so bad) ruin what could be decent songs. Second off, add a slick radio-rock production and this is where the songwriting becomes somewhat negative. The band sounds stuck between radio metal and hardcore madness; this clash is so apparent in Dance of Damsels, one of the worst tracks in recent memory. All of this together makes for a forgettable overall experience which drags on even for 42 minutes. Glimpses of excellence balanced out by shiny polish and mediocre, invasive vocals. Blue and Waltz of Madmen end up being highlights.
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| 5.0 classic | LucasLeCompte | February 12th 16 |
Taylor Larson does and excellent job producing and mixing the album. Spencer from periphery also did vocal production on the album too. This will def be in my top albums of 2016. I did a full review of it here: https://youtu.be/QHIO5TzWLNo
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| 3.5 great | BRAman22 | February 5th 16 |
This should have been cut down to a shorter EP. Some of the songs are awesome djenty wankcore like TDEP meets Periphery. Others sound like they could be by one of the countless shitty death core clones though.
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| 3.4 great | Trey STAFF | February 1st 16 |
Nocturnal Masquerade has kind of a djent, tech metal, metalcore sound. It definitely sits more on the tech/prog side of things, though. Initially, Nocturnal Masquerade took a lot of listens to really click. There are a lot of twitchy rhythms, break-neck tangents, and abrasive shouts that just didn’t click on the first two listens. The smattering of catchy choruses and memorable melodic moments kept me coming back, though, and eventually everything fell into place. Just be prepared to give it a handful of listens.
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| 4.0 excellent | VanFullOfSpooks | January 29th 16 |
Album is great and very diverse! Has lots of progressive and hardcore elements and is catchy as hell! Toothgrinder proves that they can expand upon their previous work while still keeping their original sound. This is not a perfect album but it is very good and worth a listen!
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| 1.5 very poor | gschwen | July 22nd 22 |
| 3.0 good | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 21st 22 |
| 3.5 great | heck | August 28th 19 |
| 3.0 good | josh | August 23rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryfly44 | April 12th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Tethyan | February 14th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Elynna | November 25th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Lalka | December 15th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | November 30th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | cristane | November 17th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | Prole | August 7th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | jmh886 | July 27th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Snide | May 21st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | mikep87 | February 17th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Mojito | February 9th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Feels | February 6th 16 |
| 3.5 great | koloss | January 30th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | SYL | January 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ebola | January 27th 16 |
| 3.5 great | NBA | January 26th 16 |
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