Some bands decide to stay the exact same with their sound throughout their whole career, some switch to a completely different genre, some add slight tweaks to improve the personality of their sound, and then Dillinger Escape Plan is like: "Whatever, let's just do literally everything ever for our second album". It's no secret; I absolutely adore this album for how wacky this music gets. In my opinion, it's miles better than their first album, which could get me into ... read more

Their best album (so far from what I've heard), and exactly what I want from this band. While I usually have a hard time following their deeper cuts, the hits hit so hard that it brings the quality of this album to a really high level. Listen to the title track, "Orange County Blonde and Blue", "There Was A Flood", and, ESPECIALLY "Sister Charlatan". That last song is the pure definition of what this band is about.

Plus + Devin Townsend produced it; what more ... read more

Great metalcore stuff, with a hint of death metal. M Shadows guest spot on "Savior, Saint, Salvation" was elite and made that the best song on the album. Other than that, "Rise" has extremely good guitar work. Some of the implementations of cleans got a little too cheesy for my taste like in "Our Enemies", but honestly it's made up for by how chunky some of these breakdowns get like on "I Dream of July". Good album; kind of underrated band on this ... read more

Well, this is pretty much everything I'd want from an NSB album in this format. This is almost a second return-to-form for the band; as in, they're back with the main focus being these really long, droney songs that make your head numb. However, this album, like the band's third magnum opus "Daughter of Darkness", is one of their best to do it, and the sounds on here are actually really pleasing to listen to. The 100 rating first goes to the consistency of quality; ... read more

Not really anything unique in their discography but it just goes to show how much I appreciate the material that isn't just constant droning for forty minutes. I know that's the point with this subgenre but at that point I don't think it's much for me then. I love how Natural Snow Buildings makes it worthwile, though, because they have the vocals, they have these immense landscapes that make anything seem nostalgic or beautifully melancholic, and I think their return to form ... read more

Extremely unique Natural Snow Buildings album right here; it takes a whole new direction in terms of art direction. Albeit, I kind of wish some of these songs were unique compared to the rest of their discography, since this does come off as an "Apollo"-esque record because of it's astronomical theme. But honestly the fact that NSB is consistently putting out albums as strong as this is extremely impressive, and usually it takes me a few listens to truly give something a perfect ... read more

If you like "Daughter of Darkness", well, more Daughter of Darkness! Albeit this isn't as good as the masterpiece that proceeds this, this is still a really good collection of drone tracks that capture the essence of what made the original album so fascinating in the first place: Natural Snow Buildings, and ritualistic, at times very powerful and beautiful atmospheres. Hell, some of these tracks made it to the reissue, which add a whole new dynamic to that edition of the album! ... read more

This was an extremely surprising followup. For those reading who haven't heard this album yet, Natural Snow Buildings make a return to form... Of sorts. If you loved "The Dance of the Moon and the Sun", and if you loved "Daughter of Darkness", then this might be a lot down your alley. It's definitely the first time in a long while since I've heard some of the folk-driven songs on an NSB project, and I am fully embracing it. While the first track can be a bit ... read more

Okay so first of all I want to clarify I didn't just spend one day on this and sit through it front to back at once. Yes, God forbid, I actually took about a week or so on this album. And don't get me wrong, it was still extremely fulfilling nonetheless, and I got some pretty weird experiences from it, but now I'm only wondering... How would this play out IF I listened to it in the 6 hour run without a break? I'm pretty busy in my media consumption, though. As a greaseball ... read more

Natural Snow Buildings doing what they usually do, along with some of the duo's respective solo works attached to it. I guess in that sense you definitely get a better variety here as it kind of pushes you to check out their respective solo material, but then again it's still more of the same as what you'd expect from NSB. Though I will say TwinSisterMoon and NSB's parts completely mog Isengrind's section of the album.

I'm pretty sure everyone who keeps up with my ratings has seen the pattern and come to the conclusion that I am, indeed, diving into NSB's whole discography. That proves to be a pretty demanding task, since there is so much material to go through and review. However there is definitely a lot of juice in their steak and a lot of butter on their bread. This is so far my favorite album from their most droney materials. I love the artwork, I love the sounds, and I just like overall how ... read more

Again, this band does the drone stuff, which yeah I get that this is the thing with drone music, but this is one I actually got to appreciate for what it is. I like how the album sticks to the theme of Laurie Bird, and how the music itself kind of reflect how her life went. It's like a better executed "Between The Real And The Shadow", which was an album that I did like to an extent, but the transition from the preceeding album to the former was a bit off-putting to me at the ... read more

Alright, ladies and gentlemen, at this point, I have started to crack a little. Natural Snow Buildings starts what is probably their most obscure and unusual era here, with "Between the Real and the Shadow". This is extremely odd to me. Granted I probably listened to this with the wrong idea in mind, but it genuinely beat me to a pulp. NSB are probably the first band where I heard such a droney sound and I could actually be overwhelmed by it to a point where it just becomes ... read more

I think the production and instrumentals are perfect. JPEG is a master at production, I just don't like his voice and his flow. Every time I hear this guy rap it is just extremely off putting. The lyrics don't even really do much for me either, though I dunno man it's really that and his voice I get extremely mixed on. Other than that, the actual instrumentals themselves carry this album for me and they are super strong. It's everything I could want in a hip hop ... read more

Not really the first album you'd think of when you talk about NSB but this one's definitely following the same flow as The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun. I feel like there's more folk on here honestly, but even then it totally works for their musicianship. If you loved The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun, you'd definitely dig this. This is essentially a B-Side album to that.

Absolutely phenomenal. I'll admit, on online rap, I'm not really a conisseur. It's just not really something I gravitate towards, but I definitely see the appeal. Slayr, though, woah. This guy has everything, and it's one of those albums where every song offers a new thing to the table, which is kind of what my problem with this kind of stuff was; everything sounded the same. Not on this album, though. You get a little bit something different with every song, and I love how ... read more

Knowing what this band would be able to accomplish within the coming years makes this a pretty polarizing listen, and that's because it's so influential and renounded as a mathcore classic, yet it's probably their worst album? I dunno, a lot of the albums kind of go neck and neck for me. That's the thing with this band; they try so many new things and make tweaks to their sound with literally every album they do, so it's difficult to compare everything accurately.

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"Guns & Rifles" is a must-hear song from NSB's catalog, but overall it's a very promising start to a long and ambitious discography not just for the band, but for the listener too.

This is pretty much an even grindier side of the band that we didn't see as much on "Calculating Infinity", their first album. Don't get me wrong, that album might even go twice as harder than this release, but when I relistened to it, it's honestly a sign for an extremely promising start. Dimitri was pivotal in the EP's direction, as he pretty much is the main staple as to how chaotic The Dillinger Escape Plan's first few songs and concerts would prove to be. ... read more

While I was listening to the album that this song is from, "Miss Machine", I read the top comments that said this song was bad. I had my expectations low because the rating was also one of the lowest on the album. What I wasn't expecting is one of the greatest alternative metal songs I've ever heard. Though it might be an awful way to introduce someone to the intensity that is their first two albums, it goes to show how diverse and experimental the band is. I love it when ... read more