With Mental Vortex, Coroner prove themselves to not only be some of the most technical musicians in metal as a whole, but also some of the greatest musicians and songwriters of all time.
Mental Vortex grabs you by your neck and beats your ass from the first track up until the last, with a few slower moments to add variety (like in Divine Step), the riffs are complex and dissonant but they don't bore the listener at all.
Everytime a song ended I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the ... read more
it kind of gets better as it goes on... But most importantly it gets better when Julian shuts the fuck up.
I don't know whats his thing with autotune but it just doesn't sound good, especially in this context.
The melodies are not bad but if he just sang them with his normal voice they would be much better.
The instrumental is pretty good although it kind of sounds like elevator music at times.
The lyrics are... Not horrible, he has definitely written better.
I really hope the ... read more
Great atmospheric production, Sade has great voice too but Im not really into the lovey dovey lyrics, i guess thats what you get with soul/RnB but oh well.
IstG if you take a shot of liquor each time she talks about love or her man you're going to end up comatose by the 3rd song.
I feel like I'm just not the biggest soul guy but still, I don't regret getting this on CD for 5 euros, bought it blind and I didn't regret it tbh.
Highlights: No Ordinary Love, Pearls.
Some good moments but mostly a guitarless bore.
Also Thom sounds insufferable and incoherent on some of these songs, see, Bodysnatchers, the only song with an audibly distorted guitar.
The good moments are still far from Radiohead's best.
Another album that is liked mostly because it's neither fish nor meat, neither rock music nor electronic, neither pop nor too avant-garde.
Totally undeserving of being the 6th highest rated album on here, total bs.