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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlsX...xjSd38ADUB3s_s
I only began the album and I don't care much for it already, it's a bit tedious, but I want to go through the whole album sorta as an endurance test. I never got into Metal, cause after those bands that spear headed the genre in the 70s, it became cookie cutter and very predictable 80s and on. I never heard this album before but in the few five seconds after all the glitchy stuff and the band kicked in I was like I heard this before. There are spots it reminds me of Visual Kei. I don't think the synthesizer worked into the mix well it's a bit thin. But really isn't any problem compared to the clicky palm-mute/bass drum thing that is happening.
This is the type of music they would play on the Hallmark channel. Hypothetically, say if they had a show called A Very Metal Christmas Special with words written by Andrew Lloyd Weber, music by Trans-Siberian Express and a Sega video game - this is exactly what you would hear.
6/10 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I agree that it's a very dramatic sounding album. When I first picked it up I was a little bewildered by their mix of prog-metal with other things...but I think it was parts like around 3:30 in to opening track "Another Sky' or sludgier pieces like 'Totality' that even has a Baroque classically-tinged segment where I thought they were a little off the beaten path. Like a more bonkers
Enslaved.
My own rating is around
8 out of 10, but I've had a year or so of of it floating around my Spotify and library playlists to where it grew on me.