LordofBadTakes

This album does such an incredible job at bringing attention to just how messed up the world that we're living in today is, due mainly to people who already have so much money and power continuing to seek more and more at the expense of everyone else. From the apocalyptic themes to the intense self reflection that the narrator(s) go through and the storytelling with people who are destructively greedy, there is so much heavy stuff in this album handled pretty much perfectly both with the ... read more

In 2023, shame really proved that they can do amazing things with their brilliant album Food For Worms, but with their follow-up, it seems this band just could not for the life of them get their shit together for a single song. There are so many recurring issues with this album that span a handful of tracks individually, but when you put them together, not one song one here doesn't suffer from at least one of them. The writing can get really repetitive, and when it's not doing that, ... read more

While nowhere near as incredible as O Monolith, Cowards is still a very thoughtful album that analyzes the concerning state of humanity in pretty interesting ways. The sound of the album is pretty much always good, but there are a lot of points where the band goes a long time without progressing the sound in any way, which can be fitting at some times like "Well Met" and the slower parts of "Blood on the Boulders" due to the suspense it builds, but can also make parts like ... read more

This album is everything I fear my life may be turning into in the form of music that manages to simultaneously be an intense burst of emotion that's screaming out for help and a set of insanely catchy songs that I've been thinking about probably somewhere around 50% of the time I've been conscious since my first few times listening to this album. On any ordinary album, vocal effects and production choices like the ones on parts of many of the tracks may make you think "Why ... read more