A few of you may care.
Tech death/thrash metal is out. Alternative ambitious melodic metal is in. What a change. Damn, all you tech death fans are gonna seriously get your knickers in a twist. The comeback album meant jack to me in the end. I was really surprised by this direction having not heard a sample beforehand, but I am somehow won over by this release. It has predominantly clean almost alternative sounding clean vocals with some screams on the odd line. The production is miles better than the last album. The riffing is solid, winding and good with melody and reasonably technical without blinding you with a million widdly notes. The tech needing brigade will cry into their beers at the lack of virtuosity but this is still way more cerebral than your average alterna band. You really have to open your minds with this. For me it's not a brilliant album but give it time to grow and once the initial shock wares off, you can see that they have somehow pulled it off.
Tech death/thrash metal is out. Alternative ambitious melodic metal is in. What a change. Damn, all you tech death fans are gonna seriously get your knickers in a twist. The comeback album meant jack to me in the end. I was really surprised by this direction having not heard a sample beforehand, but I am somehow won over by this release. It has predominantly clean almost alternative sounding clean vocals with some screams on the odd line. The production is miles better than the last album. The riffing is solid, winding and good with melody and reasonably technical without blinding you with a million widdly notes. The tech needing brigade will cry into their beers at the lack of virtuosity but this is still way more cerebral than your average alterna band. You really have to open your minds with this. For me it's not a brilliant album but give it time to grow and once the initial shock wares off, you can see that they have somehow pulled it off.