Album Rating: 4.0

yea that also happens when you get stuck on one perspective

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

forgot this was a thing. listening.

Album Rating: 3.0

I was never a big fan of Extol's work, but this group has always drawn my interest. I might be checking this and their debut out soon. Excellent review btw.

Cheers Mori.

Album Rating: 4.0

Great review, not enjoying this as much as heavy yoke overall. But it’s still damn solid and seems like a grower.

its funny, i love her screams and don't love her cleans tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

Yes, for sure more technical but that makes it less immediately enjoyable. It makes sense that it would be a grower, but really feels like a Heavy Yoke pt. 2. Not that that really matters as much, the jazzier parts are cool

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

maaan...I don't get why everyone is saying Heavy Yoke was immediate...I disagree big time...Maybe this one is even a bit less immediate agreed, but on the other hand you're already familiarized with Azusa's sound.

On Heavy Yoke, such as in this, you have to get used to and understand the stretch of the contrast between melodies and heavy parts...plus the melodies are very "out of the box" and the mathy metal riffs also take their time to sink in.

I think, for now, that this album is pretty much as strong as Heavy Yoke. I'm definitely pleased to decode this album...



"but really feels like a Heavy Yoke pt. 2" this I agree...its definitely the continuation of their sound.

Album Rating: 3.5

Heavy Yoke has a few more accessible hooks to pull you initially, but yeah as a whole it was still a grower. Plenty of depth to unpack and my favourite tracks kept changing over time.



This has a similar core sound, therefore I can see how the familiarity would help, although the songs themselves are less immediate (to me).

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For me the first time on Heavy Yoke was weird as fuck. But I feel you guys. If they needed to keep challenging the listener, they certainly accomplished with this one.

Album Rating: 3.5

The shock value isn’t here, which can actually be a disadvantage in some ways.

Heavy Yoke is a great jam, I'll check this one asap.

Nice review, as always Dewinged

Album Rating: 4.0

I enjoyed their debut, and after reading your review here I’m bumping this to the top of my listening pile and check it today. Cheers, Dewi!

Cheers Notrap, Uzu, hope you guys enjoy it

Album Rating: 4.0

Either I’m a fool, or I’m confident as fuck, but I went ahead and ordered the vinyl version of the album off of Bandcamp. I’m hyped.

Yes the new Extol album

Good review, looking forward to checking this

Also I kind of hate “bull in a china shop” as an expression at all ever since Mythbusters watched a bull run through a maze of China on wobbly wooden shelves without breaking anything

Lmao, what a nice bull

whenever I read that phrase I hear the opener on In/Casino/Out

Album Rating: 3.5

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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Guest solo on Detach is awesome m/

huh I didn't see what you meant bloc, but there are indeed a few bits where it takes a jazzier turn, the bass pops and sounds fresh out of 1993, and her droning, floaty vocals sound a lot like Portal/The Portal Tapes.

I work in IT, so as nice as it is to have a job and be working right now, and this is a 1st World Problem, it's such a depressing feeling waking up and realizing in 10 minutes I need to be showered, have coffee made, and be in the basement in my office setup working on tedious data entry/troubleshooting/website work/conference calls for 8 hours when my doggy and Playstation are so close. I feel more dread in my mornings working from home than I did going into the office.

But this album is serving as a nice 8am distraction for two days in a row. This is certainly a grower! Not the biggest fan of her cleans, and yet this gets better every spin.