Chaosphere

This album is unique like no other, with it's own upsides and downsides to that. This is clearly the base of the real Djent sound, and this is their first project to keep that sound throughout every single track. It's also done extremely well here, as the riffs and general instrumentation is top-notch. The vocals and lyrics are also great and quite provocative, with touching on a lot of personal and societal issues. I do have a couple problems though, and one of those is the mixing; the entire album feels very empty, and feels like it's missing something because of it. If they managed to get a better guitar tone and pushed that to be part of it, that could've improved the sound a lot. Regardless of this, the actual playing is good enough to keep me listening and coming back due to their skill. Elastic is a really great closer and kinda encompasses the whole album, along with a sight into the "true form" of the group, with the last few minutes just being a cycle of noise with some distinct voices or guitar parts coming through, but they all swirl around and muddy themselves before the abrupt cutoff to finish the track, which all of those work INCREDIBLY well. What I really wish though was that the first part of the track was separated from the outro segment, as the 5 minutes of noise made me think my soundcard was broken for a bit, and as good as the closing section is for the album, I'd like to be able to go back and listen to just the beginning segment of Elastic, although I get why it's like that from an artistic perspective. Regardless of my issues, this is still a great and unique listen, and is something really unlike anything else, even in this day and age.