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This new PSOTY fucking SLAYS. It’s like Fragments but cranked to 11. I’m into the vocals a lot, but they don’t dominate the album. There are a couple instrumemtals & long periods in the songs with no vocals, so if you don’t dig them, maybe they’re sparse enough to not hurt the album for you. As a whole I will say the songs are a bit one dimensional & at least the first time through can be hard to separate from each other, but it’s just so LOUD & dense I don’t really mind. The first real tempo change doesn’t hit until a couple minutes into the 3rd track, but it hits right before things get stale imo. My other minor gripe is that there isn’t a lot of depth to the drum beats, but this album is definitely about the nuclear guitars & bass. Which btw, definitely some moments of Tool-esque bass in here. A nice element especially after getting back into Tool casually lately. Listen to this one cranked as loud as you can. I wasn’t gonna splurge on vinyl but I may have to change that. ”Queen of Hades” is my early favorite. That’s when that Tool bass really kicks in & then it’s filled in with like shoegaze-post-metal.

The Foundry in Lakewood. Also, Ben Sharp (Cloudkicker) was in attendance & we hung out haha

Saw TAC tonight & holy shit the new songs are great live. “The Journey “ was next level.

New Tennis System is a banger indeed. I’m obsessed with the drumming here. Such urgency all throughout.

That bump with no actual news tho 😫 lol

LMAO at that price. Independent or not that’s some shit. IT DOESN’T COST $10 TO SHIP

Haha hope you dug it. I wasn’t too much into them before this album, but this one slays.

Spotlights is my number 1 to see for the weekend. Thicccccc dense heavy riffage for days. Their newest album is in my top 5 for the year so far.

VOIDDDDDDD

That redone Silent Key might be my fav song here. It’s incredible. But I love Nica too.

I thoroughly enjoyed this first pass through. Back to his folky roots but a lot of new instrumentation mixed in.

Happy to see a ton of Wildlife. That’s the one album I keep thinking of.

Ranking a Russian Circles album last is like ranking pizza. Even your least favorite pizza is still fucking pizza & is incredible haha. It’s more the ending of Enter which is full of songs I never go out of my way to listen to.

This album rips (although ‘Arluck’ makes no sense here imo, ESPECIALLY after ‘Hunter Moon’...lacks the atmosphere of the others...but still a good song), my splatter is trash, & the vinyl sounds quality is very muddied, especially compared to Guidance. I’m spinning Guidance now immediately after Blood Year & it sounds sooooo much better. The bass really pops on Guidance but is buried on Blood Year. Also, I still like Guidance as a whole better. Early rankings... Geneva - Guidance - Station - Memorial - Blood Year - Empros - Enter

Fun fact: In high school I did a paper involving “Beautiful” and got one hunnid on it.

Yeah for sure. Stoked for the rest of the album.

So I’m the only one super into that PSOTY song? Yeah the vocals are there waaaay more than I expected but I honestly think they mesh perfectly with those crushing riffs. Dude has a good voice & I love how it subtly builds to the heavier screams at the end. Definitely metalcoreish but I dunno it all works for me.

Found a galaxy on IG...

I can dig that. Thanks for tagging! One to definitely keep an ear open for.

This new Oh Hiroshima just isn’t doing it for me. I feel like everything I loved on In Silence is gone. That album felt like a complete, fully fleshed out album. This sounds like a mix of ideas that they had without knowing how to really write the songs. And as I said before it reminds me of their first album, not In Silence. Very disappointed.

Looks like a slew of new songs on this new A1KA comp as well. Glaciers, Ranges, etc https://athousandarms.bandcamp.com/album/open-language-volume-iiii-side-a

That song is thicccccccccccc. Vocals way more pronounced here but they sound fantastic.

Ended rips. Just watched them on their live IG & they sounded great.

I feel like every band HAS to release 3 singles ahead of time, which irks me. I know I don’t have to listen, but with RC I have to listen. Milano > Kohokia > Arluck for me

Yeah I literally only bought to keep the collection complete. It sounds great & the vinyl is thicccc but yeah the hand-painted first copy is far superior.