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| 4.0 excellent | Panzerchrist | May 14th 17 |
Their most hostile release to date, fully realized by an absolutely inhospitable production job courtesy of one Kurt Ballou. Mutoid Man's greatest strength has always been their adept navigation of tempos, structures and whole genres, and 'War Moans' is no exception. From schizoid, post-hardcore attacks, to Slayer-esque war-anthems, to straight, anthemic cock rock cuts, this is just another example of one of the most talented, least-categorizable groups around doing what they do best.
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| 4.5 superb | ignorethefashion | May 14th 17 |
This melted my face and shredded my butthole simultaneously, and I was into it.
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| 4.5 superb | BRAman22 | August 1st 17 |
A strange but awesome mixture of Converge-esque technicality and insanity with vocals that sound similar to many radio rock/metal bands throughout.
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| 4.5 superb | marf1300 | January 26th 18 |
Fun, catchy stoner rock influenced by a variety of metal sub-genres, but this has a enough technicality hidden underneath the accessible sheen to keep things interesting.
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| 3.5 great | cjbizzlebizzle | August 2nd 17 |
War Moans is an obvious maturation of the Mutoid Man sound but not necessarily a step forward from their previous two efforts. Still entrenched in a stoner metal/rock and hardcore base the group really favors the former here and it all becomes a much catchier, approachable experience. Compared to Bleeder, War Moans is much more melodic and quite a bit less aggressive. With that being said, this can't be taken too negatively as Brodsky has found a masterful balance of cheesy yet fantastic lyrical hooks and the band itself stays as energetic and technical as ever with things just more on the rock side rather than metal/hardcore. Another great thing about this album is the track variation. Mutoid Man excels at a wide variety of styles like the hyper, intense Micro Aggression, a pure ballad in Bandages and the super catchy rock track Kiss of Death. Check them out live whenever possible, one of the best on-stage acts around right now.
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| 3.5 great | TheManMachine | July 15th 17 |
Yours and my favorite Smash TV-referencing super-trio sensation return for a much anticipated full-length part two; one whose growth is gainly but with mixed results. Ultimately the songwriting is no doubt upped and they further cement their standing as bodacious blenders of hardcore, metal, speed, sludge, ridiculous melodic fun, complex+ferocious crush. But other than an omg-riff here or a stupidly good guitar-strangle solo there, I get more enjoyment and energy out of their debut's dirtier directness. Brodsky's clarion chirp goin' a bit over-cheesy at times. And I love a good guitar strangle, but I'd gladly swap out one of the extra axe-guests if Wolfe did more than whimper.
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| 3.0 good | harddrughartman | June 2nd 17 |
it's a real shame that Kiss of Death is the best song on this record. all the others pale by comparison.
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| 3.0 good | doofy | April 29th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Tool1 | February 26th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | January 8th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | zzf1918 | July 22nd 23 |
| 2.5 average | Timmy | January 11th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | January 9th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | xHaunted | November 29th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Moses77 | November 18th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Martvyk | November 18th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tksteve | July 15th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 21st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | April 17th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jebull | August 27th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Harlz | April 17th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | thawey | March 13th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | danielp | January 27th 21 |
| 3.5 great | ariich | January 2nd 21 |
| 3.5 great | kabster | September 22nd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Prole | May 15th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ziggity | April 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | h0rsie | November 5th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | bbgames | October 31st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | josh | August 29th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | kleggi | April 9th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | list3r | March 24th 19 |
| 2.5 average | crab | March 5th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | botb | January 28th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | January 8th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Veldin | January 4th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Diogo13 | November 26th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Brabiz | May 18th 18 |
| 3.5 great | cozzy | January 14th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | patol | December 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | RIPGemmy | December 10th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fear | December 9th 17 |
| 3.5 great | rid | November 21st 17 |
| 3.5 great | clavier EMERITUS | November 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | gschwen | October 8th 17 |
| 3.0 good | SuzyC | October 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | October 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Moraff | September 7th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Samos | August 30th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Hyndez | August 25th 17 |
| 3.5 great | AriDoe | August 23rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | NoSons | August 13th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Inveigh | July 17th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Thibs | July 13th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | JAV | July 10th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Lalka | July 3rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | June 22nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | June 21st 17 |
| 3.0 good | Ben STAFF | June 16th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Dwap | June 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jmh886 | June 8th 17 |
| 3.5 great | greg84 EMERITUS | June 7th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Ebola | June 6th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | em17ah | June 6th 17 |
| 3.2 good | Trey STAFF | June 4th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Spec | June 3rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | heck | June 2nd 17 |
| 4.5 superb | dnig70 | June 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thor | May 14th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | NBA | May 12th 17 |
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