This could've been a masterpiece had it not been for two things:
- WHAT ON EARTH IS A HUSKY DOING ON VOCALS IN TO FADE WITH THE DARK
- Why is the closer a 20 second riff stretched out for 20 MINUTES
What a frustrating LP. Has some phenomenal songs in between those two major issues...
I got into this band because of Brutal Mentor, a sick 6 minute long shredfest.
Unfortunately, that was the only real banger here
This album felt 13 years long, what's with Prog Power and not knowing when to call it quits
Songs that have a lower rating than Bitch I'm in the club:
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Metallica
- Basket Case, Green Day
- 09-15-00, GY!BE
- Hunter, Have a Nice Life
- One of these Days, Pink Floyd
- Come Together, The Beatles
- Bodysnatchers, Radiohead
- My War, Black Flag
- Cloud of Forgetting, Swans
- Botomless Pit, Death Grips
- Even Flow, Pearl Jam
- Empty Words, Death
- Pastime Paradise, Steven Wonder
- Cherub Rock, Smashing Pumpkins
- Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones
- The ... read more
NF's an interesting guy, I think he has enough life experiences to talk about where he can make some interesting/gut wrenching songs (Intro 2, How Could you Leave us, Real) but fails at exploring these on a deeper level.
What this leads to is a massive concentration of topics in few songs that are really good and the rest are just generic rap filler songs.
Lots of lyrics going like ''huh you think I've it easy? Look at my life man it's so difficult, I rap the real ... read more
Remember when for 15 minutes this shit was what the entire music sphere was talking about? Have you heard ANYTHING regarding Greta Van Fleet since COVID came around? Seriously feel like they just dissapeared lol.
Anyways, this is less insulting to me than to some others since I'm not huge into Zep. However, me not being huge into Zep leads to me not being huge into this album.
Damn baby are you Fates' Warning debut album because you certainly Night on Brocken
Ah fuck Awaken the Guardian is not their debut joke ruined
Is there such as thing as too much good music?
You'd think that is a silly thing to say, and I'd agree. But Terraformer manages to be just that.
This album is gargantually massive, no other way to put it. take out the interludes and the average track length here is 8 minutes each, one more complex than the other. It somehow does not bore the listener though, with a variety of styles keeping things fresh including solos from up to 4 instruments and even a breakcore ... read more
Had been a while since I listened to some real putrid metal. Took me a few moments to re-adjust my ears to it but once I did.... it was good! Nothing mind bending, and the vocals walk a fine line between disturbing and comical, but overall enjoyable!
It's so corny it could feed all of Germany, but damn if it isn't some good fun
That first concert is legit excellent if you liked Rush's Self-Titled but wished it had a bit more grit. Geddy Lee is basically screaming half of the lyrics, it has a crunchy and powerful tone and the bass is SUPER audible.
People acting so offended in some reviews like Michael Gira wouldn't laugh his ass off if he saw this
Whilst I can aprecciate the care and love NSB has put into this I can't help but feel dissapointed, especially with how much I love The Winter Ray.
Nearly every song in this album feels like a minute long melody which then they rolled a dice to decide if they kept it going for 5 or 45 minutes. Whilst its hypnotic nature and great, detailed production is something worth experiencing once, I am left with little to say about 7 hours of music other than "it shut my ADHD voice up so I ... read more
Wdym Evil Dick at 49 do people need everything to be a statement of inteligence and culture???
In a world with so many strong feelings towards Sleep Token I found myself weirdly in the middle.
I'm not necessarily opposed to this blend of genres, hell I've even listened to a blend of prog metal/dubstep before, but the way they do it wildly varies between good and clunky.
Also, the guy sounds like he's gonna start singing we are charlie kirk at any point and that's fucking hilarious to me lol.
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