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| 2.5 average | Jared Floryan | March 16th 15 |
With Sons of the System, the Danish metal band Mnemic have proven that eclecticism can't always be a sworn ally. For a majority of this release, they try their hand at evolving the usual formula with rather mixed results. While I do appreciate the group wanting to take their style of melodeath-meets-industrial metalcore to the next level, Mnemic's manner of going about it tends to favor style over substance. The quality of the musicianship on Sons of the System is a little on the half-hearted side; the bandmates that aren't this outfit's vocalist manage to provide enjoyable chugging and overall fun riffs when tracks with more reasonable lengths are called upon (e.g. "Mnightmare," "Climbing Towards Stars," and "Diesel Uterus"). By default, frontman Guillaume Bideau is easily the MVP of this record: his howls are passionate and his singing - whilst it pales in comparison to Michael Bogballe's - is pretty bearable. If you're fixing to get into these dudes' material, I would start out with Mechanical Spin Phenomena or balanced The Audio Injected Soul.
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| 2.5 average | merky | January 19th 12 |
A lot of the tracks on Sons of the System are boring and not remotely memorable. "Diesel Uterus," "The Erasing," "Climbing Towards Stars," and "Dreamjunkie" are probably my favorite songs, but everything else isn't that memorable to me. Also, I think the production quality was a little lacking in this album.
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| 3.0 good | MaSuPe | January 25th 25 |
| 3.0 good | haley | June 3rd 23 |
| 2.5 average | mEyck07 | November 18th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | voodman | September 20th 19 |
| 3.0 good | latpac | December 21st 18 |
| 4.5 superb | n3xus6 | March 11th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | GhostK | November 26th 16 |
| 2.5 average | dbilidb | September 30th 15 |
| 2.5 average | Wilk0 | September 3rd 15 |
| 3.0 good | ngk44 | August 14th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Majkl | February 22nd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | br8dyn | October 25th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Sulphur | September 26th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Aladin | April 5th 13 |
| 3.0 good | YUJOS | May 25th 12 |
| 2.0 poor | Lalka | April 15th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | rica | October 6th 11 |
| 3.0 good | ANJ45 | August 25th 11 |
| 2.0 poor | Trey STAFF | May 24th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Tupi | February 11th 11 |
| 3.5 great | 32left | December 5th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Nego | September 13th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Fobeus | May 12th 10 |
| 2.5 average | Nach0 | February 25th 10 |
| 3.5 great | L0G05 | February 13th 10 |
| 3.0 good | quik40 | February 9th 10 |
| 2.5 average | Smevin | February 7th 10 |
| 2.5 average | alsid | January 13th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Scoot | January 12th 10 |
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