Scissors4Hands

After giving Caramel a glowing 5/100, I was fully convinced that, after throwing darts at random FL Studio sample folders, ST would continue their genre gentrification campaign of making metalcore McDonalds waiting line soundtracks. I was pleasantly surprised to see an actually real and enjoyable track. Vessel gets to blow off his RnB steam in the verses, then transitions naturally into the McDjent choruses we all heard a million times already.

Is it still car commercial metalcore? Yep.

Is ... read more

At first I thought it would be a bit of a snoozefest like their most recent album (hot take: I actually enjoyed City Burials a lot), but the occasional proggy passage here or there in this one feels more natural, and the song has quite a nice sense of tension, release, and atmosphere. Nothing dramatic, nothing insane, but deliciously melancholic. The track also boasts an impressive amount of small details and production ear candy - adding sfx stabs only on certain notes, interesting reverbs, ... read more

Feels like it was written with more intention than the stuff on Ashen. As is always the case with HLB, killer atmosphere, killer riffs, and the cleans at the end are a welcome addition.

This song makes me feel like Sleep Token are just trying to make their songs as bland as possible, as artificial as possible and their lyrics either annoyingly on the nose or meaninglessly vague as some sort of weird social experiment. Imagine the most artificial digitally tuned breakdown, but worse. Imagine the most AI-slop chorus, but worse. And I never thought I'd say this - imagine Despacito, but worse. It's not dumb enough to be fun, it doesn't have any attitude to make it ... read more