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I really enjoyed it and will be giving repeated listens. It sounded more like thrash-influenced hardcore than 'proper' metalcore (not that there's anything wrong with that). It was heavy as fuck.
Try Justice Replaced By Revenge next for a taste of their modern sound. They're even more vicious and brutal on that one, I think you'll dig it. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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So business as usual.
It's like the musical version of comfort food, except it makes me feel worse instead of better. :D As soon as I went to play some guitar, my wife put on Fair To Midland. On paper, I should totally hate these guys - they have a slightly whiny vocalist, big pop melodies, silly lyrics, and "modern" rock/metal guitar and drum production. But I actually like them, and I think the guy is a really skilled vocalist. JBaker, you know them at all?
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It's like the musical version of comfort food, except it makes me feel worse instead of better. :D As soon as I went to play some guitar, my wife put on Fair To Midland. On paper, I should totally hate these guys - they have a slightly whiny vocalist, big pop melodies, silly lyrics, and "modern" rock/metal guitar and drum production. But I actually like them, and I think the guy is a really skilled vocalist. JBaker, you know them at all?
That reminds me, I need to do some drawing. I've heard of them before, but never bothered because they were prog rock rather than metal, and I know the definition of 'rock' in prog rock can be pretty tenuous. My friend actually showed me something by Babymetal which I fully expected to hate but it honestly wasn't that bad.
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I've heard of them before, but never bothered because they were prog rock rather than metal, and I know the definition of 'rock' in prog rock can be pretty tenuous.
I think it's the definition of "prog" that's tenuous. The "progressive" label gets tossed around far too freely in my opinion. FTM does have some fairly complex guitar and drum work, and some nice vocal layering, and some keyboard parts, and they have a couple of sections that have a 70's feel to them... but it's at the service of some fairly saccharine and predictable melodies in decently well-written pop songs. The lyrics are annoying - "plays" on predictable cliches, they sound like words written by a young person who's desperately searching for something to write about. If they had screaming and breakdowns, they'd sound like modern metalcore. Ugh. But, they don't, and for some reason I dig what they're doing.
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Intronaut - Prehistoricisms I like the songs for their heavy sections and some of the melodic and textural parts. There are some awesome chord changes in here. But the jammy parts don't do it for me at all, they just sound unfocused and a little annoying. It's fine to have parts that are more gripping, and other parts that fade into the background, but they don't do themselves any favors going off on tangents IMO. Whatever, it's still a pretty cool album.

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Intronaut - Prehistoricisms I like the songs for their heavy sections and some of the melodic and textural parts. There are some awesome chord changes in here. But the jammy parts don't do it for me at all, they just sound unfocused and a little annoying. It's fine to have parts that are more gripping, and other parts that fade into the background, but they don't do themselves any favors going off on tangents IMO. Whatever, it's still a pretty cool album.
I agree. I really want to like these guys more than I do but its always a hit and miss for me for the same reasons. Can't say I favor one album over another either. They're a really great band I wish they would just stick to what works (for me anyway) Currently listening to nothing. Hopefully the sound of my head hitting the pillow shortly :)
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It's like the musical version of comfort food, except it makes me feel worse instead of better. :D As soon as I went to play some guitar, my wife put on Fair To Midland. On paper, I should totally hate these guys - they have a slightly whiny vocalist, big pop melodies, silly lyrics, and "modern" rock/metal guitar and drum production. But I actually like them, and I think the guy is a really skilled vocalist. JBaker, you know them at all?
*Implying that I like whiny vocalists, big pop melodies, silly lyrics and polished production... How could you? ;) Nah, I've not heard of them. I'll give them a listen.
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