Not too shabby

Agreed. These songs out are good. Should be at lwast a 3.5

Hateful still the best one, that song bangs 'ard

These guys are consistently great, very excited for this one

About damn time

Damn they went metalcore and I love it

New songs are bangers as usual
Love these guys

Remember when these guys had a drummer and he was like kinda good and unique

Im still an easy sell on industrial junz, not gonna pretend I hate these songs or anything, but man the identity loss is real

I mean come on you're not gonna bust out any crazy fills on a track with Chris Adler's literal brother? Come ON

Wouldn’t call it an identity loss as such. I do miss their old sound mind, but I love the direction they’ve gone in too

music for ignoring your mum's texts from the middle of your local dead mall

first track is some of the most NPC shit i've heard this year, second is a lot better but mainly bc it goes vampire on that feature

"HEALTH will join Sleep Token for a handful of gigs"

l o l appropriate timeline

Yeah sorry gonzo I'm uh diggin my heels in on identity loss, don't hear anything at all original or in the spirit of their pre-Max Payne stuff here. Very competent very generic industrial rock/metal

Death Magic is still one of my favorite records of past ten years. Somehow, everything they made after it doesn't reach the same impact for me. It's mostly good, but apart from several tracks it all feels pretty one-note, which is weird since it's mostly collaborations with a diverse pack of artists.
Still love the band tho. New songs are alright.

@kompy

Fair enough. I do get what you’re saying; they’ve definitely lost their initial sound, and I definitely miss it somewhat too. You could probably account it to Jupiter leaving, since the shift takes place after death magic. For me though, I love this band and I love industrial and I think they blend the two very well.

To my ears the synthpop leanings on death magic are much more of a piece with the albums after than the albums before, but it is a kind of transitional record for them I think. Much less METAL

You can def hear Jupiter's absence on vol 4 and these new ones too but personally I see Max Payne as the big turning point for them, where they gained a new larger audience (read: edgy gamers) and started shifting their approach away from the noisier stuff I assume Keyes was mostly responsible for (also where their lyrics went from "indecipherable" to "decipherable and also quite bad")

They still jam the old noisy tracks when they are playing live, it sounds much more coherent tbh, all of the old noise, death magic disco and new industrial metal too. Live drums are a big part of it probably. But I saw them just once and it was a support gig.