After the single I was worried because it sounded...well.... safe. It sounded like they took songs like Darkhorse and Axe to Fall from the last album and made them really clean sounding, not the usual manic/panic inducing sound of their last two albums, plus clean singing is not Jacob Bannon's strong suit. I was about to write this album off...luckily they provided the free stream and the album absolutely gets better as it goes. It's still no Petitioning the Empty Sky or Jane Doe, but it's definitely good.
I definitely see what your saying, Decibel did an interesting spin on this a few years ago. I forget what the segment was called, but it earned Kevin Stewart-Planko the moniker, "The Bravest Man In Metal" where he defended why he likes generally shit upon albums (i.e. St. Anger, Carcass' Swan Song) and he had another segment where he basically shit on classic metal albums (i.e. At The Gates' Slaughter of the Souls). I feel like that is far more effective than pimping a list as a definitive list.
Samothrace is awesome, Hooded Menace should be some hot slow jamz too. I saw Taurus (Stevie Floyd from Dark Castle's new band) and they were terrible live but the album is interesting. It has definitely been a slow year for Doom in my opinion too. Wasn't feeling Om this time out, usually a big fan.
I still think Faustian Echoes (especially after seeing them perfom it live this weekend) is the front runner but this is definitely good. Addicts definitely went a lil rogue for my taste.
True only difference was it was $14.99/month for unlimited. Pretty much the same selection though. I had both for a short while but I noticed if it wasn't available on Rhapsody it wasn't available on Spotify either.
I just miss the crushing aspect of this genre of music. I understand growth and whatnot as an artist, but this is the same problem I have with new Mastodon material as well. I didn't listen to Mastodon because I thought they were really nice guys, I listened to Mastodon for ten foot riffs and cavemen grunting unintelligibly. I was never a huge Baroness fan to begin with so I haven't been digging their new stuff too much. I listen to other music besides Metal, but when I want to listen to metal, I WANT TO LISTEN TO METAL!
I should have, I'm bored at work and actually counted the words after I realized I'm four paragraphs in and already familiar with their previous work and just clicked the article to see what the new album sounds like.
Hold on hold on hold on....misleading title. That one sentence statement from a fan "believing" that Axl is the reason is just terrible journalism Tom, even if it is just reprinting what another journalist said. For all we know it was one douchebag security guard.
With that being said, it probably was Axl.
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