This album comes SO close to being fantastic for me, but like half the songs have one annoying ass sound that repeats for the entire duration that I can’t unhear. In ACT RIGHT it’s that snare-sounding thing that starts at 0:20. For P3T and KATAMARI it’s the melodic background sample thing (P3T is especially egregious bc the loop is less than 1.5 seconds and never changes for the entire song). GIRL HELL 1999 really shows the potential here of how good this could be with slight ... read more
Occasionally has brilliant moments, but for large stretches is extremely generic and boring. If I have to relisten to your metal album because I LITERALLY FELL ASLEEP WHILE LISTENING TO IT, you may be doing something wrong. The most I gained from this is I now see why other people didn’t like Sol an Varma’s s/t album from last year. It’s basically just this but with higher highs, a better floor, and about 30 mins shorter. Not being SUPER harsh with my rating here because it ... read more
Live Prey is a performance of Ahab’s classic funeral doom album “The Call of the Wretched Sea.” However, don’t assume that Live Prey brings nothing new to the table just because it’s essentially a retelling of an album that already exists. This is a very different experience.
The performance and production of the original album has a suffocating quality that created an atmosphere almost akin to being adrift on a life raft on the open ocean, baking in the sun and ... read more
I was in Brad’s chat when this album was donated on stream, thank you to Infurno for showing us this!
I actually had quite different opinion from Brad on this, and I relistened a couple times to further develop it. Firstly, I know the big problem he and his chat had with the album were the cleans. They didn’t bother me that much, especially compared to other post-hardcore/00s metalcore. They did at times, but CRUCIALLY, the album sets up a good environment for cleans much of the ... read more
What on Earth did I just listen to?? This album sounds almost normal at first, but goes way, WAYYYY off the rails as it continues. Normally I’d be less than interested in listening to long stretches of random instrumental synth thrown in at the end of a black metal album (*cough* HIN-FORT *cough*), but here it sounds so utterly deranged that I was fully engaged by it. Overall I enjoyed the experience (I think)? I know for a fact that I will be coming back to this at some point, so ... read more
“The Secret of the Secret” is a legitimate contender for being the best song I’ve ever heard in my entire life
Get this album to a doctor immediately, it appears to have a malignant tumor attached to its back end. Like seriously, wth happened toward the end there? “We made a decent speedcore/grind album so let’s tack like 10+ minutes of bad harsh noise onto the end”??
Also the constant EDM-style samples of random 60s video footage or something get old pretty quickly. Interesting sound though, they definitely refined it more later on in their discography so it’s cool to hear what ... read more
This feels like if Reek of the Unzen Gas Fumes' self-titled album was socially acceptable, weirdly atmospheric instead of weirdly melodic, 40% less abrasive, and 30% less interesting. Biggest issue I have with this is the songwriting is very one-note and repetitive. There aren't really a lot of memorable moments that stand out. That said, this is a VERY promising debut. The sound is unique enough they could do some truly outstanding work in the future. In particular I think they could ... read more
This was interesting and ambitious enough that it makes me want to check out what else this band's released. Synths get annoying at times but I feel like the way they create atmosphere is fairly unique. I actually like the weird vocal effect, I can see others being annoyed by it but 90% of what bothered me was the synths. Also they managed to make a 7-minute instrumental track engaging so they're definitely doing something right.
I know people the "lo-fi black metal sounds like tv static" jokes are kind of done to death, but just LISTEN to the second and third songs on Grohot's side of this split. Luckily for them, Faunul din Smida hard carry this album back to being decent with a very good second half.
Would you like 11 songs that sound EXACTLY the same? and would you like them to sound like trying to drink the last bit of slushy out of the bottom of a cup through a straw? Well then I have got an album for you!
Don't ask me why, but this is the type of album that gains like 10-15 points of value if you're drunk. I was the first time I listened to this, and I wanted to give it a score in the low to mid 60s before relistening while sober and feeling like I wasted my time. Has a similar effect if you listen to it in the background while doing something else -- the album is almost like those images with all the dots where if you look at it closely you can't tell what it is but if you look at it from far ... read more
The year is 6,419,718,352. All life on Earth has gone extinct billions of years ago. The sun has collapsed into a white dwarf. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies have collided 1.5 billion years ago. And one of the last known vestiges of humanity, the group of cybernetically augmented data beings known as Judas Priest, have just released a new album, which isn't groundbreaking or anything but it's actually pretty decent.
“Added on: Dec 12, 2017
User score: NR”
Damn they really just forgot about my boy for 5.25 years huh. It’s a shame bc this is some pretty interesting jazzy(?) grindcore. Also I’m not feeling confident abt this rating at all yet, could go up or down a lot. Just a really interesting style to me and I want to see if it holds up upon relistens
I'm honestly at such a complete loss with this album and band that I just CANNOT process whatever tf I just listened to. I can't even tell whether this is legitimately trying to be educational, whether it's just trying so hard to be edgy that it's accidentally educational, or whether it's trying to be some sort of exaggerated parody making fun of pathological goregrind. On one hand, on MRSA's bandcamp, in the description for Rare Diseases, they link to a page by the National Organization for ... read more
Sascha… It’s been years since the crash. It’s not your fault, it was really dark and I couldn’t see the deer either. Don’t blame yourself. I know you promised me “KMFDM will never stop” through your tears as we waited for the ambulance but you have to let go.
Do you really think I would’ve wanted you to keep doing this to yourself? You don’t need to prove anything to me, I know you’re extremely talented and used to pump out great ... read more
Not bad, but I couldn’t distinguish two songs on this to save my life. You could literally put it on shuffle and not have a different experience at all because just about every song sounds the same. Now granted, it’s a good sound, and grindcore may be the genre where song differentiation matters the least. However, 29 mins is a very long time for an album like this and it gets a bit redundant
I definitely want to revisit this at some point, it seems like the sort of thing that I just didn’t get on my first listen. My biggest issue with this is that it doesn’t handle the repetition that well imo, it got boring for me fairly often.
It did have some pretty solid atmospheric moments at times, and very unique atmospheric moments at that. Traditionally, atmoblack attempts to musically strand you in the middle of a frigid, lonely boreal forest covered in 2 feet of snow at ... read more
Ooh boy, I can see this album being a controversial one…
I was fortunate enough to be looking through metal albums on YT when Season of Mist dropped this album a day ahead of its scheduled release date. My first reaction upon finishing the album was to listen to it over again because I had no idea what to even make of it. It’s certainly a bold choice of direction, but I can’t honestly say it worked as well for me as their previous releases. First thing I noticed was it has ... read more
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