artificialbox
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Beloved Failure On
4.0
05.30.24
Exist Hijacking The Zeitgeist
Hijacking The Zeitgeist is another album that I mostly checked due to the album art, but Exist quickly caught me off guard and captured my heart with this one. Metal which is progressive and whimsical while still firmly rooted in traditions of rock n' roll is always a winning recipe for me. This album is just very focused on sick grooves and even sicker riffs. The songs are memorable and structurally familiar with just enough melodic curveballs thrown in to evoke an emotional connection that will keep you coming back. 		4.0
05.25.24
Incinerous Contorted Epiphany (demo)
rating bias because I have writing credits on one of these songs		3.5
05.24.24
Brutalism (USA) Solace in Absurdity
4.0
05.24.24
Replicant Infinite Mortality
4.0
05.24.24
Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
I haven't cared about this band since 2010, and I thought amo and That's The Spirit were incredibly boring, so I was not expecting this album to be so much damn fun. The mish mash of genres here just works so well for me, combining hyper pop with metalcore and grungy alt metal. It's like BMTH had a baby with underscores and Deftones. This album is 55 minutes long, but the variety keeps it so engaging. It almost feels more like listening to a playlist as opposed to a cohesive album, which I think was an intentional move to capture the attention of todays society of instant gratification induced brain death. I admit, there's some stinkers on th		3.5
05.24.24
Gatecreeper Dark Superstition
Gatecreeper, Gatecreeper, Gatecreeper. The black sheep of the modern death metal scene. This band has been criticized for their formulaic take on hardcore infused death metal, but Dark Superstition is a welcome surprise which shakes up the band's meta in the best way possible. This album not only features their absolute crunchiest, chunkiest production to date, but it's also their most melodic. Dark Superstition still packs some blistering heaters, but it also quite often veers into pure melodeath territory with harmonized guitar leads and tonally conscious grooves. I wish they went even further with this sound though, because as much as 50% 		3.5
05.23.24

shoutbox » all posts 
  • Hawks Good choices of bands to dig tbh lol. Hell yeah bro!
    May 30 08:52 PM
  • Hawks How much into bm are you??? If not much that Summoning albumI reviewed would be a great starter! M///
    May 30 06:54 PM
  • Futures i've been appreciating your postings man. you seem like a good dude.
    May 29 10:00 PM
  • Hawks Cool bro will def jam!
    May 25 06:47 PM
  • Wildcardbitchesss s*** man I wasn?t ignoring you I just haven?t checked by shout box, I?ll be on tomorrow night, Friday night, and pretty much all day Sunday. What?s your discord? I check that pretty much daily!
    March 21 03:38 AM

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