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modey Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 fucking hell. Listening now; the mixing is a bit strange but this sounds like it's possibly the heaviest thing they've ever recorded.. That wail on the end of the solo at 2:48 of Monstrocity is fkn amazing lol edit: alright, the mixing was just weird on the first track, either that or I'm getting used to it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Whole thing sounds great in my headphones, but I haven't given it a spin on my studio mons yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 Yeah I just thought the drums were too loud in the first track.. especially that "chorus" where there is an actual chord progression going on underneath. Overall it is a total unrelenting monster though. Gonna have to give it a few more listens before it stops being just a blur of angular riffs but it's very solid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I found the riffs and grooves to be a bit more easily comprehensible this time around... but I was also going through their discography in the weeks leading up to the release, so my brain may have just acclimatized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 yeah it takes a little while for things to sink in for me.. probably because I do most of my music listening at work where I tend to be concentrating on other things.. that said, there were some moments of such beauty on this album where I just had to stop and admire the crushing riffs.. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 maaan, how amazing is that 1.5mins of ambience at the end of Stifled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaizai Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I have a catch 33 feeling with this one, godamn i love it ! The flow has hypnotized me. On repeat !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirm Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Yeah this is beastly as fuck. Proper heavy but such wicked grooves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 Yeah I listened a couple more times and there are some real slamming groove sections on this album, so good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 i have a love hate thing with meshuggah, some days I love their stuff some days it annoys me to no end. Really digging this clockworks track, anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I used to love love love meshuggah but now I just cant get past the vocals for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 I do sometimes wish that Jens had more melody to his vocals like in the first few albums (even a few tracks on Destroy Erase Improve had some melody in the vocals).. but there's a certain postmodern quality to them these days haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Yeah, he's got a pretty wicked harsh Hetfield thing going on when he chooses to sing... way back when. I wonder why they never incorporate that now. Seems like such an obvious thing that could add so much depth to their music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Have to admit I lolled at the Monstrocity track. Cheesy af when the 'chorus' kicks in. It's like a nu-metal track gone dissonant/djent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watmmisdead Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 do you guys like this ? any recommendation in this genre? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 Have to admit I lolled at the Monstrocity track. Cheesy af when the 'chorus' kicks in. It's like a nu-metal track gone dissonant/djent.I love it :D I love how there are some nice long instrumental sections without a high register solo, but instead feels like the guitar riffs are the solo and rhythm at the same time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 do you guys like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UUBShPhuLA ? any recommendation in this genre? Hmm, there's plenty I think, but I'm not sure how easily I can recommend because my tastes are a bit more broad, so I tend to lean more towards bands who incorporate melody/clean vocals as well.. I don't listen to a lot of the more straightforward screamy stuff really (except for bands like Meshuggah but they're hardly straightforward!). I could recommend bands like Scar Symmetry but despite sometimes having similar energy/pace, most of their songs get kinda proggy/power metal haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Have to admit I lolled at the Monstrocity track. Cheesy af when the 'chorus' kicks in. It's like a nu-metal track gone dissonant/djent.I love it :D I love how there are some nice long instrumental sections without a high register solo, but instead feels like the guitar riffs are the solo and rhythm at the same time Haha yeah def. I use 'chorus' because despite sounding like one, structure of track is still cray af Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psn Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 do you guys like this No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I used to love love love meshuggah but now I just cant get past the vocals for some reason yeah I would listen the fuck out of this and go to their concerts and shit but the nu-metallness of the voice triggers me too hard.. and when I listen to this, I make suuuure nobody else hears it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 Huh, I don't really hear any nu-metal connection in the vocals. Maybe a bit in the pace of the music, but the riffs are way more dissonant than anything even Korn could come up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 yeah dunno, not Korn, more Slipknot, Mudvayne stuff like that.. granted I haven't heard any of that for a long while so my memory might be playing games.. but there is something unironically pubescent-aggressive and one-dimensional in the vocals which I simply can't get over.. At the same time I can't deny that the screaming works well as a counterpoint to the musical proceedings, but still I really, really wish they would release all their jazz as instrumental versions in parallel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I really, really wish they would release all their jazz as instrumental versions in parallel. mos def Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirm Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I would love for them to do an instrumental album, Not because I hate the vocals (but get why people have an issue with them) but more because I think it would drive them to make even more out there music and bring out our their jazz tendency's for some full on free-form metal madness, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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