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Yea, I do expect differing opinions but I didn't really expect people to just refuse to call this metal, damn guys. Just because a band doesn't have the most overwhelming drums or vocal cord fucking you've ever heard doesn't mean it's "in fact not metal". Y'all don't like doom or sludge? C'mon it's a fun ass record to listen to on a summer night if you went into it with an open mind. With regards to if it's alt rock? Yea, for sure, some songs. That also doesn't make it "in fact not metal". Bro I don't care I just wanted to review an album I like y'all are the ones liquid diarrheaing all over it. And like I said before, that's fair. To each their own

Nah, just enjoy it. Elitist mfs hear melody in a song and refuse to call the song metal. Alright bro, to each their own. Cheers.

New alt-metal/hardcore/shoegaze band Fleshwater is a recent band, with their first demo coming out in early 2020. However, their 2022 album We're Not Here to Be Loved is for sure my favorite record in recent memory. This shit is fucking gnarly. I'd get into the details but i'm in a time crunch rn so i'll be brief. Album opens up fittingly with Baldpate Driver, some heavy ass industrial stuff. Next couple of tracks, Closet and The Razor's Apple are some really sick mid/late 90s callbacks. Really unique still though, closest thing I can relate to it is maybe Hole? They have a really dark but warm sound at the same time. Love it. After that is I think my favorite, Woohoo. This song is fucking addictive. That riff is so goddamn dirty but its all so melodic at the same time. I really cant emphasize enough the instrumentation of these folks. There is both a male and a female singer, both are fucking great. The female singer sounds wonderful and really adds to the character of the band and I believe a couple of other members are from another bigger hardcore band called vein.fm, who I also think are pretty sick. Linda Claire is also a a dirty ass single. All of these songs are so damn good, i'm listening to the album through as I write this. Kiss the Ladder seems to be the single, with the most streams on all platforms. Fair enough, its a short little grunge song and god the fucking instruments sound so damn good here, god tier production. This song is also fucking addictive. Next is a Bjork cover, Enjoy. They took this really quirky almost Aphex Twin sounding Bjork song from 1995 and projected it through their own heavy industrial metal sound. Backstairs Breathing is the second shortest after the 1:17 long Kiss the Ladder. Backstairs Breathing keeps the album consistent and is also a good ass shoegazey track. Lastly is Foreign, I think the only song that competes with Woohoo for favorite. Foreign is just also so fucking dirty and just shows why the album is so good and has it end on a perfect note. God do I hope these fuckers release another record.

Hey, greatly appreciated. Reading back it does seem like I don't like these last two records considering i just straight up didn't mention them, but they're still some of my favorite albums of all time. Dead Again songs Profit of Doom, She Burned Me Down, and Hail and Farewell to Britain get regular replays from me. I can see how you feel the songwriting only got better, especially lyrically. This stones called Apophis, it breeds apocalypse. Fuckin love that shit.

Type O Negative for sure in the top tier for my favorite bands. 3 album run from 93-99 with Bloody Kisses, October Rust, and World Coming Down gotta be my favorite 3 album run in music. Plenty of absolute bangers show up in the early records, 2000s records, and the B-sides though. I don't want to say my "least favorite" so i'm just going to say the album I listen to the least is definitely Slow, Deep, and Hard. Songs like Der Untermensch and Gravitational Constant are really the only notable tracks that I relisten to but it's still a fun listen if you haven't heard it in a while. Same with Origin of the Feces, still interesting record though. Bloody Kisses in 93 is where the band fully embraces the gothic and some doom elements that always showed up in their first two records. I still remember the first time I heard Christian Woman and how it completely changed how I look at music. So many layers, of guitar, bass, synthesizers, flowing over you working in perfect unison to give you such a melodic chorus that conjures so much 90s alternative goodness I can't quite put words to it. Too Late: Frozen's second section is so fucking awesome man. Perfectly places you in the atmosphere of an arctic tundra blizzard. And Black No1 and Summer Breeze are also epic goth and doom metal icons. October Rust of 96 is in my opinion their magnum opus and my favorite record. Fuck accusations of "overproduction" when this overproduction sounds so damn good. Skipping the joke track the album starts with Love You to Death, Peter Steele's whole-hearted attempt to make a gothic pop song to run on MTV Headbangers Ball and get the studio some cash. And god damn does it land. Everything from start to finish in Love You to Death is masterful. Listening through the first verses of the song brings such a feeling of 90s nostalgia its insane. I think I've heard in an interview or something before that songs on this record often used upwards of 50+ tracks, which certainly shows with all of these songs having such a lush and autumn feeling atmosphere. The cover of Cinnamon Girl is fucking sick too and a favorite to scream along to in the car. Now that riff is dirty. Wolf Moon is another favorite. That opening bass line is so smooth and buttery and listening closely with all the slight noises adding to the the beautiful atmosphere while stoned out of your mind is a must do. The song kicks in like a truck with the atmosphere of the song continuing to impress me throughout. The verse starting 2 minutes and 30 seconds into the song has got to be one of my favorite musical moments from their whole discography. Something about Josh Silver's synths here are so magic literally making you feel like you're lifting and falling in mid air. The album is one of, if not my favorite of all time and is a must listen for any fan of 90s alternative. 10/10. World Coming Down came in the fall of 99 following a period of family death and drug abuse in Peter Steele's life, as he had developed a cocaine addiction whilst touring for October Rust sometime in 97. Now the years from probably about 95, when they really started popping off, going to the end of 99 was what i'd define as their "golden age" is you will. In that period they're sales and relevance were at their peak and i'd really recommend giving their performance at Bizzare Festival 99 a watch as it really is a stunning performance by this legendary band as they're all starting to show they're age with all the members of the band entering their late 30s. It's almost like one last hurrah in one of the last big festival concerts of their careers. Getting back on topic, World Coming Down brings on a much darker vibe honing in more on the bands sludge and doom metal aspects. Highlights are Who Saves the Sane?, Pyretta Blaze, Everything Dies, and Creepy Green Light. Everything Dies is to World Coming Down as Love You to Death is to October Rust. Both are in my eyes attempts are singles that hit they're mark so well. Could you imagine hearing that opening riff on MTV? Creepy Green Light is a musical masterpieces, playing some beautiful melodies off of each other. Another great album, probably like an 8.5/10. Type O Negative is a special band to me and their music makes me feel like no other music does, realizing all the little intricacies throughout the songs, starting to like a song you used to dislike, or watching the live performances. They really captured lightning in a bottle for a while there.