today's mission: checking out stuff from some bands who had stuff in my last order i really dug
definitely finding that time will die was a bold step in a new, better direction for these guys, both of these are... fine but i wasn't too into either, they're more -corey though they still have some of the atmospheric moments too. i think i slightly preferred grievances but only slightly, i'll probably spin both these one more time but i doubt i'll get either
it doesn't have the same sound as their album this year for sure, but there's the same "death metal with a lot of prog influence" vibe going here & some of the same tricks. it's all a lot more straightforward though. i dig it & would definitely spin it again but i dunno if it's as exciting to me - it's definitely a bit less technical, for sure
hmm. i dunno, on first listen not much of this clicked for me. it's still the same fun prog/stoner metal fusion but the hooks aren't really there it feels like. maybe my opinion will change on relisten tho
ooh, this is definitely a case where one of these does waayy more for me than the other. specifically, the second one. worlds is... well, it has a bit crap of a production job, and a lot of ambient interludes that make the pacing of the album really weird (and drag it out a bit too long, there's somewhere around 20 minutes of ambience on the album and it's about 67 minutes in total so almost a third of the album is just that - and it's not bad ambience, but, again, flow gets a bit ruined by it). i didn't dig the riffs as much on this one either. beyond the shadows however. sounds exactly like on strange loops. which i am incredibly pleased about. it's just more of the sound i already really dig? hell yeah sign me up. missing the album-flows-as-one-piece vibe of on strange loops but i'm way into a lot of the individual songs anyways so it's whatever. good stuff. almost definitely picking this one up.
i have two more on my list for the moment (previous rivers of nihil album & then the DWeF album before stellar) & might also check out slugdge but the latter may not happen because the only feasible way to get their early albums is as a 3-disc set which, well, i'm trying to stick to one album per artist right now
haven't even checked out the older alkaloid album because i'm getting the new one anyways so it's whatever man. but i might put that one in my order if there's space for it, ehh
eeuuugh, no thanks. this is just pure traincore with very few of the elements i cared about from their latest. the drum production is still total garbo here too so i guess that's just how they want to sound. anyways i didn't even finish this. oops.