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| 4.0 excellent | Jared Floryan | October 14th 14 |
Venerable strikes an abrupt balance between noisy dissonance, forcefully natural shouts, and sludgy riffage. Kurt Ballou's production job even does a nice job at highlighting this album's various strengths whilst evading the one or two roadblocks that are thankfully nigh-absent. KEN mode is a band you just can't ever overlook and - once you've heard at least one track off this record - I implore you to travel through the rest.
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| 5.0 classic | ToweringFilth | May 16th 11 |
I still fail to hear metalcore when listening to this band. I've been a KEN Mode fan since I heard reprisal back in 2006. My closest comparison to this band sound wise is Unsane or Capsule or some more chaotic noise rock. Either way, this album is amazing and I recommend it. Along with their entire back catalog. Catch a live show too if you can.
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| 4.0 excellent | Tyler EMERITUS | April 2nd 11 |
Another top album produced by Kurt Ballou–what can we say, the guy keeps busy. Venerable is what happens when you let a metal band borne in a sea of noise go crazy. Finally escaping the Mastodon comparisons that plagued their early records, Venerable is as loud and disorienting as it is groovy, and tracks like “The Irate Jumbuck” and “Mako Shark” are downright spine-crushing. Venerable is masterfully precise, frequently angular and always pissed off, three reasons on a list of many of why you need to check this out.
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| 3.5 great | ffs | January 2nd 25 |
| 3.5 great | qt | September 18th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | El Olam | February 19th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | dabisco | February 10th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | josh | July 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | JS19 | January 11th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | WoodeeX | November 1st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | John L | October 25th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | jmh886 | October 10th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | September 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sapee | July 8th 18 |
| 3.5 great | clavier EMERITUS | May 27th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Nacen | May 18th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | tighe00 | September 27th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | February 24th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Arctick | February 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | czed | October 20th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | kabik | August 23rd 15 |
| 3.5 great | Matski | August 18th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | hsb | April 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | XottoX | March 17th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | slaps | December 16th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dunpeal | January 26th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | cjacob6 | September 5th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | list3r | September 4th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | ILJ | July 21st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | 76TVs | March 16th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | MikioBo | December 10th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thane | February 13th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Dday | November 13th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | GibTG | October 27th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Moraff | October 2nd 11 |
| 4.5 superb | joec101 | September 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | rid | September 17th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Thor | September 9th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | r3ym0nd | August 28th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nacram | August 10th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Voivod STAFF | August 3rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | FLRTE | June 2nd 11 |
| 3.0 good | lobby | May 23rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | greg84 EMERITUS | April 19th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | puma35 | April 11th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | mmfarva | April 10th 11 |
| 3.0 good | alsid | March 30th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Napes | March 29th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | cvlts | March 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | djunior | March 17th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Wizard | March 15th 11 |
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