It's funny how subjective all this stuff is. People can say they prefer realism instead of fake sounding productions when its purely idealogical, but when a SUPER high quality real production hits it's not enough. I absolutely love the production of this album. You can hear wichers influence throughout, which I love, and andy stepped up the game massively here. I love the difference compared to tge. Material and production are completely different. Warrel is perfectly warrel on this album. He's hit his strides and is creating lyrical masterpieces. Pained angel, seriously. I believe when a band that can throw out technical like its toast (go watch loomis play tge live....seriously thats just disgusting) an album like this refines the brilliance down into a tighter package. Selection of notes and structure are eminently more important! They truly showed they can bring what we already knew they could, but did it in an entire album form. People I know on the fence about nevermore are digging it moreso then the last. So some technical metalheads won't like it as much...which is a big part of their audience, and Loomis stated it was a gamble. But when a gamble sounds this good it's gonna pay out bigtime!
Also cannot praise the box set + tshirt deal. Super cheap compared to buying the cd here ($27 cd only vs $40). Digipak edition, amazing case/artwork, and the coolest thing ever, that targets the very audience that supposed gamble was missing. The guitar cd. As someone whose posted a youtube vid of himself playing the tge arps to a backing track I made myself I gotta seriously throw down the appreciation for this stuff!
Basically; Holy shit a massive modern metal production that has....SPACE!
edit; better add this to the wall of text. If you're listening to the early rip that was released, delete your posts please. Every low bitrate, potentially premastered/test rips cause alot of unnecessary opinion around here. Judge the disc if you gotta judge!
Also cannot praise the box set + tshirt deal. Super cheap compared to buying the cd here ($27 cd only vs $40). Digipak edition, amazing case/artwork, and the coolest thing ever, that targets the very audience that supposed gamble was missing. The guitar cd. As someone whose posted a youtube vid of himself playing the tge arps to a backing track I made myself I gotta seriously throw down the appreciation for this stuff!
Basically; Holy shit a massive modern metal production that has....SPACE!
edit; better add this to the wall of text. If you're listening to the early rip that was released, delete your posts please. Every low bitrate, potentially premastered/test rips cause alot of unnecessary opinion around here. Judge the disc if you gotta judge!
Anyone else?
