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| 4.0 excellent | cman23kid | July 27th 17 |
Featuring their new vocalist, Oceans Ate Alaska do not disappoint with their crazy, technical genre-blending piece of art. Mixing odd time-signatures and crazy technicality, a huge variety of vocal approaches, and a bending of metalcore and deathcore with traditional Japanese instrumentals and musical influence, OAA do not fall for the 'sophomore slump.' 8/10
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| 4.0 excellent | AlphaGoon | October 9th 18 |
Insane guitars, next level drumming and solid screamed vocals more than make up for the average lyrics and sometimes underwhelming clean vocals that, while probably more technically sound, have less uniqueness and charm to them than the old clean vocals.
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| 2.0 poor | cjbizzlebizzle | November 6th 17 |
When modern metalcore and djent run into talented instrumentalists who have less interest in songwriting and more interest in songs with more twists than an M. Knight feature you find yourself listening to Hikari. These guys are talented, no doubt; but talent only gets you so far. Right when a riff or theme seems to be developing Oceans Ate Alaska seemingly decides that it is time for this to stop and move frenetically onto the next idea without any obvious link between the two. As a listener you either need to lovelovelove this style of music or be the most patient human being on Earth to delve fully into this record. The problem here is the substance just doesn't demand that patience. The metal vocals are strong but the clean vocals just feel out of place atop the intense music. The vocalist also decides to make some whacky choices with a pseudo-rap in Entrapment and something about 'hush little baby' later on. Both of these could elicit audible laughter (is that on purpose?) from any listener. The riffs are solid but none memorable over the baseline. The drums are fast and clean but that's it. Avoid Hikari unless you live for djenty metalcore that is spastic and sometimes hard to take seriously.
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| 1.5 very poor | BlazinBlitzer | August 1st 17 |
Having been to Alaska myself, I can say that Alaskan oceans are pretty full of themselves.
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| 3.0 good | Piem | March 12th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | xeom | July 13th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Halez | March 19th 23 |
| 1.5 very poor | Prole | September 20th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | mavrik | September 10th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | September 5th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Axmetal | September 5th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | CashA11 | September 2nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | September 2nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | brunch | February 19th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Nine | January 31st 21 |
| 4.5 superb | kenli | June 5th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Renee | April 16th 20 |
| 3.5 great | STEA | April 13th 20 |
| 3.0 good | RedBol | February 26th 20 |
| 1.5 very poor | benny06 | January 22nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | snakesc | July 28th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hansol | July 16th 19 |
| 3.0 good | josh | June 10th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Tibi | January 28th 19 |
| 2.5 average | latpac | December 21st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Alviro99 | November 15th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | nbats | November 9th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Josh | September 23rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rausku | July 29th 18 |
| 3.5 great | AndrewN | February 28th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Maximo | February 3rd 18 |
| 3.5 great | Linx | December 27th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | AriDoe | December 26th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Diced | November 8th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | tcarafi | November 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | klocu4 | November 4th 17 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | October 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Redstag4 | September 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | wantwon | September 15th 17 |
| 3.5 great | hadriel | September 11th 17 |
| 3.5 great | ksolan | September 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | tellah | August 31st 17 |
| 2.5 average | ellagos | August 31st 17 |
| 2.0 poor | jmh886 | August 9th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Daedus | August 5th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Dmax28 | August 5th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Verix | August 4th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Soossi | August 1st 17 |
| 4.5 superb | BigD | July 31st 17 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | July 29th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | SYL | July 29th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | willzor | July 28th 17 |
| 2.5 average | jesper STAFF | July 28th 17 |
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