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Have less to say about this one than most. I listened once like 5 days ago then came back and listened topday. Its really cool and very very heavy and noisy. The guitar tones are incredible, just mesmerizing whether in brutal heavy dirty form or in biting, cutting form. Its incredible. The vocals are better here than on Feedbacker in my opinion, there's also more vocals and they seem more substantial. The long loooong drone part on the super long song was not my thing. It maybe caught me at a bad time because I loved or at least really liked the drone noise parts of Boris at Last Feedbacker, so maybe when I return I will love the long extended noise and drone part(s).
Overall, yeah like I said not much to say, it was really good 70% of the times and the stoner riffs and the very emotional builds on top of the heavy riffage was at times transcendent and brilliant. The other 30% I haven't bought into much and it irked me a little. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
Overall, yeah like I said not much to say, it was really good 70% of the times and the stoner riffs and the very emotional builds on top of the heavy riffage was at times transcendent and brilliant. The other 30% I haven't bought into much and it irked me a little. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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This is a pretty album. It’s more post rock than post metal. Or perhaps I’m just focusing on the crescendoing post rock parts because... I don’t particularly like post rock generally. At least not as done here. The genre rarely moves me emotionally. This album is no exception. It was beautiful and nicely composed throughout but way way too “epic” and too, idk, just too shimmery and methodical. I recently have started coming around on Mid 90s Neurosis because, while it has its post rock styles thrown in to a degree, it manages to maintain its sludge grit to some degree as well as introduce an almost overpowering and palpable sense of dread and imminent destruction. Those neurosis albums are very powerful. This Isis album which I’ve heard a few times is still not clicking. Even at its heaviest, it’s too short lived in its power and heaviness it it feels a bit too clean. As I recently mentioned with the 2021 Dvne album I tend to steer a little clear of these types of atmospheric sludge albums and in the direction of just sludge. When atmo sludge mixes with post rock or “post metal” or Prog metal, I tend to get lost in my attempts to really eat up what the album is expressing. It’s rare I’m ever really moved or inspired or truly blown away by this album. But it is gorgeous and well composed and expertly crafted and all that. Not really my style.
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Well I listened. It was well made. Good musicians . Don't really like the music, however. The drum sound is something that sounds, to me, quite lifeless. The big walls of "sludge" are consistently... well, heavy, sure, but not impactful. The whole album kinda rolls along with these big post rock epic moments and as you all may know I'm not a big fan of this style of post rock that is on display here. It doesn't feel like it has any heart at least it doesn't capture me or my imagination particularly well. I have come to the conclusion that the mix of so called Post Metal and atmospheric sludge is not my thing, at least not the way these chaps do it.
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This is amazing. What drugs was I on when I "couldn't get into" this on the several listens before (they were mostly incomplete listens due to just not digging the proggy sound)? I listened to this 4 times yesterday. I also went back and listened to Leviathan and Blood Mountain once each. But now I am listening to this again and... its stellar.
I still prefer the sludgier sound of Leviathan. Leviathan is a 5/5 all time great album. This, though, being more progressive and having much less of a brute sludge intensity, just takes longer to wind into my heart. But it finally did. This album is 50 minutes of near-perfection. IMO this is the kind of proggy metal that is really quite great. Like, there are Opeth elements here, but somehow Mastodon in changing their sound for this album managed to avoid almost all, nay ALL, the pitfalls of prog metal - the vocals are never corny, the transitions never seem silly and pointless and gratuitous, and the whole album and each song within the album have a logical construction AND a heart that is so impassioned and intense. And when this band gets it sludgy heaviness it is glorious.
The drummer, who stole the fucking show somehow on Leviathan, is still great here but more subdued and less of the spotlight is on him. The songwriting and the construction of these songs seems to be the main focus. The whole band is stellar and the solos are refreshing old school metal classics, the riffs are some of the best I've heard, the vocals while never the best part are always good and sometimes quite amazing.
With their heavy as hell and awesome debut, their all time classic 2nd album, their also great 3rd and this their classic and incredible 4th album, I think I am starting to think Mastodon may be my favorite metal band of the last 30 years (post-peak Slayer and Metallica).
Anyway, yeah I had an about-face on this and my opinions of it. Maybe this game and how it made me listen to Opeth and Edge of Sanity as well as sludge and atmospheric sludge peers, has made it so I can hear more clearly what Mastodon is doing here. Maybe its just that I have had a development of taste and now I don't instantly get annoyed when I hear clean singing in metal anymore. Idk, but whatever lead to me recognizing the brilliance of this album and all early mastodon, I am very happy about it. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
I still prefer the sludgier sound of Leviathan. Leviathan is a 5/5 all time great album. This, though, being more progressive and having much less of a brute sludge intensity, just takes longer to wind into my heart. But it finally did. This album is 50 minutes of near-perfection. IMO this is the kind of proggy metal that is really quite great. Like, there are Opeth elements here, but somehow Mastodon in changing their sound for this album managed to avoid almost all, nay ALL, the pitfalls of prog metal - the vocals are never corny, the transitions never seem silly and pointless and gratuitous, and the whole album and each song within the album have a logical construction AND a heart that is so impassioned and intense. And when this band gets it sludgy heaviness it is glorious.
The drummer, who stole the fucking show somehow on Leviathan, is still great here but more subdued and less of the spotlight is on him. The songwriting and the construction of these songs seems to be the main focus. The whole band is stellar and the solos are refreshing old school metal classics, the riffs are some of the best I've heard, the vocals while never the best part are always good and sometimes quite amazing.
With their heavy as hell and awesome debut, their all time classic 2nd album, their also great 3rd and this their classic and incredible 4th album, I think I am starting to think Mastodon may be my favorite metal band of the last 30 years (post-peak Slayer and Metallica).
Anyway, yeah I had an about-face on this and my opinions of it. Maybe this game and how it made me listen to Opeth and Edge of Sanity as well as sludge and atmospheric sludge peers, has made it so I can hear more clearly what Mastodon is doing here. Maybe its just that I have had a development of taste and now I don't instantly get annoyed when I hear clean singing in metal anymore. Idk, but whatever lead to me recognizing the brilliance of this album and all early mastodon, I am very happy about it. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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Nothing revolutionary, nor is that what it’s trying to be. This sounds like an album where every riff lyric and everything is exact and pretty much perfect. It distills death metal down to its essential elements and does it amazingly well. It’s never abstract or wildly complex. And it’s never super ultra heavy or brutal. But each and every song here has a sick sound and groove and they all find that pocket and stay there and the result is a wildly consistent and badass album.
The album also sounds amazing. Really cleanly recorded and every detail shines. I’m no expert on recording techniques, just wanted to say this sounds incredible and dynamic.
The vocals are excellent old school death metal in the best way. The solos and riffs are all killer. And the whole presentation is cool. The subgenre noted for this on RYM is groove metal. I can hear that. There are some parts of these songs where the groove is too good. It just makes you (or me) feel like a badass and, even though the motion contradicts my internal feeling of badassness, my head can’t help but bob.
Anyway, yeah this was great. It was refreshing hearing this. Obscura and None So Vile and even The Sound of Perseverence (all DM albums recently heard for this game) were albums of extremes. Either overwhelmingly fast and avant garde and experimental, or overwhelmingly brutally heavy and fast or incredibly complex and progressive. This album, however, takes old school death metal and just perfects it and it sounds fucking cool as hell.
Edit: particular shout out should be given to the entirety of the title track here. What a fucking powerful riff with an incredible low end bass line rolling underneath the guitar onslaught. Also “Killchain” and
“Granite Wall” and “Anti-Tank” are incredible. The album is consistent as hell but that middle of the album run is mind blowing. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
The album also sounds amazing. Really cleanly recorded and every detail shines. I’m no expert on recording techniques, just wanted to say this sounds incredible and dynamic.
The vocals are excellent old school death metal in the best way. The solos and riffs are all killer. And the whole presentation is cool. The subgenre noted for this on RYM is groove metal. I can hear that. There are some parts of these songs where the groove is too good. It just makes you (or me) feel like a badass and, even though the motion contradicts my internal feeling of badassness, my head can’t help but bob.
Anyway, yeah this was great. It was refreshing hearing this. Obscura and None So Vile and even The Sound of Perseverence (all DM albums recently heard for this game) were albums of extremes. Either overwhelmingly fast and avant garde and experimental, or overwhelmingly brutally heavy and fast or incredibly complex and progressive. This album, however, takes old school death metal and just perfects it and it sounds fucking cool as hell.
Edit: particular shout out should be given to the entirety of the title track here. What a fucking powerful riff with an incredible low end bass line rolling underneath the guitar onslaught. Also “Killchain” and
“Granite Wall” and “Anti-Tank” are incredible. The album is consistent as hell but that middle of the album run is mind blowing. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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Listened and this is really really good technical thrash with some variety. The riffs are consistently inventive and the drumming is cool as is the bassist. The songs and the transitions, on first listen, didn't generally blow me away or stick with me and none stood out. Still quite cool. And I see what you mean, Chief, when you pointed out the thematic and stylistic through line between Voivod pre-Nothing face and Vektor. The Cryptosis album from this year is in a similar vein and I think quite incredible, so its good to see some new young guns taking up the sci fi tech thrash/thrash metal mantle or whatever the saying is.
The vocals even have a similar tendency to shriek at the ends of lines and crack as early Voivod. But while we are here talking about the vocals, I'm not a huge fan. I like that they are somewhat a mix of old school almost hardcore punk influenced thrash vocals found in Voivod and Exodus mixed with more modern Black metal-ish vocals, i think that is a cool idea. BUT not a fan generally of the vocals here. I still generally liked the album, despite it being 20 minutes too long. Vocals are a low point and the guitar riffs (as is correct for any self-respecting thrash record) is the highlight.
I listened to a bit of Terminal Vortex by this band from a few years after the release of Black Future. And the vocals from the little I heard there are toned down in the right ways and the riffs sounded a bit more mature and detailed. Maybe Terminal Vortex will be that album that makes me fall for this band. This album didn't quite do that, although again, it was quite solid and quite incredibly tight musically. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
The vocals even have a similar tendency to shriek at the ends of lines and crack as early Voivod. But while we are here talking about the vocals, I'm not a huge fan. I like that they are somewhat a mix of old school almost hardcore punk influenced thrash vocals found in Voivod and Exodus mixed with more modern Black metal-ish vocals, i think that is a cool idea. BUT not a fan generally of the vocals here. I still generally liked the album, despite it being 20 minutes too long. Vocals are a low point and the guitar riffs (as is correct for any self-respecting thrash record) is the highlight.
I listened to a bit of Terminal Vortex by this band from a few years after the release of Black Future. And the vocals from the little I heard there are toned down in the right ways and the riffs sounded a bit more mature and detailed. Maybe Terminal Vortex will be that album that makes me fall for this band. This album didn't quite do that, although again, it was quite solid and quite incredibly tight musically. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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At first I was like, "Great, another album by Opeth that does the same stuff as the others I've heard." But then track 3 and 4 (the first 2 songs under 10 minutes) were very different and track 3 in particular called "Beneath the Mire" actually didn't sound like an exercise in multi-parted prog complexity for once and actually had a groove and a uniqueness that I found great and refreshing. Track 4 as well.
Don't get me wrong, the other tracks here, the long ones, the ones that their fans really worship, are cool and well played, but generally I notice that the songs that are massive and winding and suite-like, just bore me and seem to have something important missing - I can't put my finger on what... maybe I just like songs that have more traditional structures or, barring that, have some heart and soul and elicit real strong feelings in me. The long ones here - including maybe their most famous song ever the huge opening track "Ghost of Perdition" - generally left me feeling impressed yet somewhat cold. Maybe requires a few more listens to unpack, but also it may be (and its more likley) that this style of metal and prog isn't my jam. Still, looking ahead on this metal albums list, and considering that outside of Iron Maiden there is no other more persistently appearing metal band on this RYM metal albums list, I will have several more chances to "dig" this music. For now, much like with the last 2 albums nominated for this game, I am only impressed and not really moved.
Okay and I am going to add more, because I want to say that this band may slowly be growing on me, despite how my comment so far may come across. I enjoyed the most of the 3 (Blackwater, Still Life being the others) and even the other 2 were really solid and beautifully orchestrated. Yet, the music isn't radically different - which is why I think I'm just starting to vibe a bit more with Opeth. This album was consistently very good, even on the long, and unnecessarily shifting every 2 minutes songs, there were many parts that actually features tangible grooves and some emotion - like actual bluesy emotion - and that is impressive. Very cool album over all. Won't sniff a decade or overall chart, but will be remembered fondly and, who knows, maybe even revisited.
EDIT: as I listen again, a lot of my thoughts are changing. This is still a bit too clean for my tastes metal-wise. But hot damn, even the long winding pieces of work are starting to sound pretty solid-to-great. The shorter songs are still the best parts and the most focused, but yeah this is solid and this goes in some weird and unexpected directions. Very cool. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
Don't get me wrong, the other tracks here, the long ones, the ones that their fans really worship, are cool and well played, but generally I notice that the songs that are massive and winding and suite-like, just bore me and seem to have something important missing - I can't put my finger on what... maybe I just like songs that have more traditional structures or, barring that, have some heart and soul and elicit real strong feelings in me. The long ones here - including maybe their most famous song ever the huge opening track "Ghost of Perdition" - generally left me feeling impressed yet somewhat cold. Maybe requires a few more listens to unpack, but also it may be (and its more likley) that this style of metal and prog isn't my jam. Still, looking ahead on this metal albums list, and considering that outside of Iron Maiden there is no other more persistently appearing metal band on this RYM metal albums list, I will have several more chances to "dig" this music. For now, much like with the last 2 albums nominated for this game, I am only impressed and not really moved.
Okay and I am going to add more, because I want to say that this band may slowly be growing on me, despite how my comment so far may come across. I enjoyed the most of the 3 (Blackwater, Still Life being the others) and even the other 2 were really solid and beautifully orchestrated. Yet, the music isn't radically different - which is why I think I'm just starting to vibe a bit more with Opeth. This album was consistently very good, even on the long, and unnecessarily shifting every 2 minutes songs, there were many parts that actually features tangible grooves and some emotion - like actual bluesy emotion - and that is impressive. Very cool album over all. Won't sniff a decade or overall chart, but will be remembered fondly and, who knows, maybe even revisited.
EDIT: as I listen again, a lot of my thoughts are changing. This is still a bit too clean for my tastes metal-wise. But hot damn, even the long winding pieces of work are starting to sound pretty solid-to-great. The shorter songs are still the best parts and the most focused, but yeah this is solid and this goes in some weird and unexpected directions. Very cool. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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Much like Paracletus, this is a very unique blend of Avant garde metal with Black metal. The more knotty and gnarly and strangely tuned and discordant avant-garde parts are the most interesting. I think its just a trip hearing these interpretations of BM through the lense of very weird and hard to unpack compositions. The BM and more classic metal parts here are cool too. The drummer is a mad man. Love the fast classic black metal incessant drum pummelings and I love that he is able to switch up into somewhat heady and odd percussive bits. The album is really good.
I think I prefer Paracletus by a smidge, maybe because its a bit more focused and epic and I think they had just those 3 years to take this sound and perfect it. Still, its cool to hear this version of Deathspell Omega from just a few years earlier, with much of the same tools and styles they made a more intense and brutal metal album. These 2 albums back to back is pretty impressive.
The massive cinematic, horn-filled (i think) last 90 seconds was really cool and ghostly and sounded like a direct transmission from hell.
Overall very cool. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
I think I prefer Paracletus by a smidge, maybe because its a bit more focused and epic and I think they had just those 3 years to take this sound and perfect it. Still, its cool to hear this version of Deathspell Omega from just a few years earlier, with much of the same tools and styles they made a more intense and brutal metal album. These 2 albums back to back is pretty impressive.
The massive cinematic, horn-filled (i think) last 90 seconds was really cool and ghostly and sounded like a direct transmission from hell.
Overall very cool. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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This is indeed a great album, and a classic. I am no good at writing about hip hop and why and how I love it. But this has most elements I want to hear in a hip hop album: incredible personality, incredible lyrics, a slight variety of sounds but also a consistent groove track to track and also within tracks, and also some cool features. The only down side is that I have not YET fully fallen in love with DOOM's voice and delivery. Its very cool, monotone. There is a level of depth to his lyrics it blows me away. The sheer number of brilliant one liners is astounding. So, with such amazing and unique lyrics I don't NEED to love the voice to think the album is great.
I also can say after 2 listens I like this more than Madvillainy. Maybe because its more lush... or IDK I am now thinking about my thoughts on Madvillainy last time I heard it and maybe I like that more... damn! I just don't know. They're both cool. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
I also can say after 2 listens I like this more than Madvillainy. Maybe because its more lush... or IDK I am now thinking about my thoughts on Madvillainy last time I heard it and maybe I like that more... damn! I just don't know. They're both cool. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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This was excellent. It was so groovy, heavy, melodic, swaggering, confident, and just a rock solid classic in hard rock music. Its got metal elements but gobs of hooks and a certain non-metal-associated coolness that could win over any alt rock or rock fan, but its also heavy and intense and badass enough to win over the metal kids (or a lot of them). Some of these songs are quite famous and I had heard them many many times as a kid, but some of the deeper cuts are equally instantly lovable and hummable and just seemed to be so primal-y natural. This is the kind of album with the perfect balance of groove and simplicity with complexity and artisticness to scratch basically any itch I have for hard rock. Its a shame I never went and bought this CD when I was 13 because this would have, no doubt, become a favorite of mine had I just given it the time. I was a worshipper of NIN and White Stripes and Slayer and Metallica and Sabbath... this would have fit so neatly and nicely into my head canon and I would have had a ball trying to win over my dad about this modern band. Oh well. better late than never.
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