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| 3.0 good | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | October 22nd 21 |
Their brand of grinding doom metal on this album has a lot of merit, several instrumental surprises keep popping up throughout the album (the sax and doom-blues on "Dissolver" is about the eeriest musical marriage I've heard in a while). This also feels the most like a statement album. Their statement is "We are to be taken seriously." And by all means I will, please keep these kinds of albums coming. However, my issue here lies with the song-writing itself, where what was supposed to sound relentless, eerie and diabolical often comes off as meandering and disorganised. Apart from say "Noose Gestures", "Twitching Lapsing" and "Dissolve", none of the songs were that memorable. I cannot really pick up a lot of points of interest in some of them at all. Everything just kind of goes on, brutally. And then it ends.
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| 4.5 superb | ajcollins15 | August 19th 21 |
What a drastic change of pass for one of the fastest-growing bands in grindcore and mathcore. Last year there explosive and glitchy album just made it on my top 50 because of how punishing of a listen the album was. On their new album, they keep that punishing and brutal sound, but layer it in a much more avant-garde metal direction with the use of spoken word, ambient drones, and sinister saxophone and trumpet. For a while now dark jazz and ambient have always been more of a videogame accouchement than a full musical style. However, there are some examples of it being used for truly breathtaking albums and this could be one of the most interesting fusions. It?s interesting because dark jazz and ambient have been used in various other extreme metal genres like black metal and folk metal (and sludge metal), but something about this new album sounds nothing like those and it is really exciting to see this band progress to such a great new level.
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| 4.0 excellent | Hawks | October 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | April 17th 22 |
| 2.5 average | qt | March 8th 22 |
| 2.5 average | gschwen | January 8th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Nine | November 19th 21 |
| 3.5 great | tellah | September 30th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kruppe | September 6th 21 |
| 3.0 good | 8genre | August 20th 21 |
| 2.5 average | quetzal | August 18th 21 |
| 3.5 great | NBA | August 15th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Mser94 | August 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | BeeRyan | August 14th 21 |
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