FELCommentary

METAL MARCH MADNESS 2/31 - DRONE METAL

My first expose to drone metal was a few years ago with Sun 0))) or (however the fuck you spell it) and my feelings to them - then and now - was polite applause. I understood the concept of drone metal and respect it, but it didn't grab me in the way other subgenres of metal do. THIS album however, fucking slaps. It genuinely didn't occur to me that drone metal can exist in mediums beyond just strumming the same 3 strings for 10 minutes at a ... read more

90 > 95 > 100

METAL MARCH MADNESS 1/31 - METALCORE

If there was ever an album that deserved all of the glaze it gets online from the metal community, let alone music nerd community as a whole, it's this one. This really does feel like the epitome of the subgenre as a whole, and it perfectly scratches every single itch I've been missing in a metalcore album. The production is fucking fantastic and works perfectly well with the variety of mathcore and sludgey elements across the ... read more

This has absolutely no right going as hard as it does but I'm so here for it. I have been waiting and begging for Curry to embrace a metal side in music ever since his cover of Rage Against the Machine's "Bulls on Parade" and what a fucking combo to be doing it with prime Knocked Loose. The very small trap elements do NOT hinder the metalcore sound at all and are well placed, and Curry's flow/performance on the instrumentals goes hard. This is both a dream collab and a ... read more

FELCOMMENTARY SPEED REVIEWS

Before I get into the actual review itself, I wanna make a small announcement to those that follow: starting March 1st I'll be doing a Metal March Madness challenge where I listen to an album from a different subgenre that I never really listened to or explored. I'm going to start with Converge's "Jane Doe" because it's the one I'm the most excited for, then the album choices after will be randomized on a wheel spin. Tune in.

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