For once it isn't the rap part of "rap metal" that's the issue. Idk, it's just pretty normal I guess. Still, there are some absolute baller tracks that are the definition of fun metal, examples in No Remorse, Thee Critical Beatdown.

I absolutely love the opening of this album. The way it slowly builds over it's first 10 minutes is beautiful but idk, it kinda doesn't much else interesting from there. And yeah, why do we have a 20 minute long ambient track at the end???

Yeah, this series is really not working for me. Smiles Only & est.- NEVER was decent but like nah, I'm really not all that excited for more entries in this series

Could be a 90 but the last two tracks in particular isn't a great final note

The dubstep here is much better than the previous ep but like idk, it's also not all that original

The mix of grimy hip hop with dubstep actually flows really nicely but in isolation the tracks are pretty mid

For what little we get, it's pretty good...but like come on, did you seriously not have like even one more tune to make this at least a half hour album?

It's fine...which is just not good enough coming from a mega Spag Heddy fan

Bro, this is a tragically spineless project. The most soulless thing I've heard in a while. She reaching for the largest demographic possible and in the meantime simply losing all interested before. :(

I only know their last album which I loved but I think that might be a bit of an anomaly. A bit of a "right sound at the right time" and it stuck with me cause this sounds basically the same but just doesn't really hit at all.

An interesting companion piece to the album where he tries to resist not doing his usual Mel Dub sound. Unfortunately for this project, that sound is really where his talents mostly lie.

Hang on a minute, maybe Fine Art was better than I gave it the chance to be cause I think their sound has now fully clicked for me. Sure, I always did enjoy their music but I was having an absolute ball with this album. Big Bad Mo is defo in contention for my favourite song of the year

A pretty damn good album...barring that boring ass track, 16 Summers. Sauna is a major highlight, easily one of my favs from her yet

Unfortunately a very safe album from VR. In a way, I hope that this is simply dip before another great project cause I just kinda felt like he wasn't really pushing himself here much at all. Still, it is Virtual Riot and that means it is good, no matter what!

Definitely a more consistent ep than their last, simply out of not having a god awful track like American Obituary. However, this ep is just kinda mid. The highs are just not that high and it all kinda drags. Still, I was a fan of In A Life and Resurrection Song.

Hearing American Obituary made me incredibly uninterested in checking out this ep as that is just so fucking cringe! It's that exact "trying to be cool with the kids" type shit that made me hate the two Songs of... albums. However everything from there is quite nice actually. The Tears of Things, One Life at a Time and Yours Eternally are legitimately really good tunes that I will have no problem returning to. So yeah, if you can stomach that opening tune, there's a pretty ... read more

A pretty interesting album. By no means is it playing it safe but I did want there to be a few more highlights and to have a slightly better flow. Right now, my favourites are Preach and Reminder

Yeah, whatever type shit, maybe the songs will grow on me though...
Also, I actually found the bonus tracks to be some of the better material here.

Actually a bit disappointed in returning to this one. The three big songs are great but I struggled to view the rest as much more than filler

There is incredibly heartbreaking beauty that this album holds. It's heavy, it's dark but also so beautiful, such is the nature of being such experienced musicians with such a tragic event to hold as the theme of this album