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
Probably AOTY for me in 2025, unless something completely left-field drops out of nowhere.
(Also, Crush isn't really that bad, esp when you consider that Justin Timberlake is a vocal influence for Jacob, and combining that with their new Y2K-ish aesthetic, you can kinda see that it's intentionally pulling on some 2010's clichés)
Having been a fan of Thornhill since The Dark Pool (damn it's been 6 years already), and eagerly embracing the change when Casanova dropped, ... read more
One of the most consistent bands in metal, bar none. It's no Midian but it's a damn good album. It does lack some more recognizable semi-melodic passages or motifs (sort of like what Crawling King Chaos or Necromantic Fantasies were for their last album, or what The Death of Love was for their Godspeed), but tracks like Non Omnis Moriar and You Are My Nautilus scratch that itch for me.
No idea whether Dani sold his soul to the devil or something but the dude's been writing ... read more
Before the ham-fisted attempts at creating lore and quirky genre mixing, there was sincere intent behind the Sleep Token project, and in the EP titled "Two", the band captured lightning in a bottle. I won't spoil or elaborate on the theme behind "Two," but if you can't relate or haven't had the experiences described in the lyrics, it will likely feel like a slow and vague bundle of nothingness. But if you can connect with these themes, and if you can get ... read more
PVRIS's "Use Me" is an enjoyable listen throughout, and although the argument could be made that it's more focused on the A side due to the fact that it features some more focused and hookier cuts, after a couple more listens, the B side has some hidden gems, like the more experimental "Old Wounds," which uses all sorts of peculiar sections and influences to form a pretty strong soundscape, or the melancholic yet catchy "January Rain" mixing interesting ... read more
Bad Omens' THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND is filled to the brim with meaningful lyricism which is tastefully backed by a dazzling collage of musical influences (aka Sleep Token wishes they could).
I usually hesitate to compare artists against one another, but given the similarities and the similar space they occupy in the music industry, I think in this case it's well worth mentioning that Bad Omens (at least on this project) end up effortlessly doing everything that Sleep Token ... read more
Having been a fan of ST since the "This Place Will Become Your Tomb" era, I have to say that I thought the day would never come when I genuinely couldn't care less for a new ST release. That being said, even after the Imagine Dragons metal mishmash that was TMBTE, I was still willing to give the single a chance.
Some areas have seen improvement, but for the most part ST still display a tendency to throw away good songwriting in favor of their recent love for quirky genre ... read more
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