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  1. Flying Colors' second album I like a lot, they can be a little "preachy" for me musically. Like uplifting to a point where it's a little much. Some absolute fire in Second Nature though
  2. I wonder if Dreamsonic tanked financially and this is their attempt to salvage. That's a really cynical take, but I'm just confused why they'd suddenly move on from Mangini after a string of hugely successful albums at the twilight of their career (James at least).
  3. Honestly don't know why. They gotta be close to hanging it up at least with James struggling live. Their last couple studio albums were amazingly good.
  4. Holy shit Mike Portnoy is back in the band.
  5. Best shot at King Gizzard, excited to see where the new synth album lands. Like Devin Townsend, the discography is so wildly different I have to settle for buckets instead of true ranking. I prefer their heavier or jammier stuff overall, and the microtonal albums are all good. If K.G and L.W would both chop off a small handful of songs and combine it would move to the top category. Untouchably Perfect Nonagon Infinity PetroDragonic Apocalypse Flying Microtonal Banana Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava Polygondwanaland Great L.W. I'm In Your Mind Fuzz Omnium Gatherum Infest the Rats Nest Laminated Denim On the cusp of greatness K.G. Changes Mixed Bag Murder of the Universe Butterfly 3000 Gumboot Soup Mostly not for me but a few goodies Quarters 12 Bar Bruise Fishing for Fishies Maybe they can pull some stuff off live but not revisiting the studio material Float Along - Fill Your Lungs Oddments Paper Mache Dream Balloon Sketches of Brunswick East Excuse me what the f**k Eyes Like The Sky Made in Timeland
  6. Riverside after giving their new album most of the year to bake 1. Love, Fear, and the Time Machine 2. Anno Domini High Definition 3. Second Life Syndrome 4. Shrine of New Generation Slaves 5. I.D.Entity 6. Out of Myself 7. Wasteland 8. Rapid Eye Movement New album is okay but they've certainly done better. The new guitarist is perfectly capable.
  7. The new album is on my list after I stop digesting the amazing new Tesseract album but I wanted to offer my favorable opinion on The Future Bites compared to what I've read in here so far. I like the electronica as long as there's an organic element to it. Some songs work pretty well like Personal Shopper, but once it goes too robot it starts to tank. This is why I love Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, one of the 2010s absolute best albums. I like TFB more than To The Bone, aka Wilson goes full 80s.
  8. Skipping the single releases. His discography is better off experiencing in the album format. Bands are releasing half their album early these days and it's just not the same listening experience
  9. Tesseract after binging the new album 1. War of Being It's perfect. Insane vocal diversity where the screams actually work and don't just hurt my ears, alongside some massive melodic and emotional range. Drums are on fire, bass is on fire, riffs and ambience are perfect. 2. Sonder If anything, it's too short. Great album. Luminary is a neat "here's what a radio single would sound like from a djent group" lol 3. Altered State Ashe O'Hara sounds like a whiney vocalist from a Midwestern emo band's 2008 demo. The songs are pretty great, though. If Dan Tompkins re-recorded the vocals it'd be even better. 4. One Beats out Polaris because Concealing Fate exists. What a monster of a suite. The rest of the album is nothing to write home about and has too much screaming for the sake of screaming. 5. Polaris Some songs are decent to good, some are absolute duds. Nothing on this album is what I'd call great, and because One has Concealing Fate, this album loses.
  10. New Tesseract album is out. War of Being. Album absolutely RIPS. The screaming is about as strong as it was on the debut album, which I don't typically prefer, but Dan Tompkins is showing incredible vocal diversity everywhere. The bass lines are so good. The ambient stuff that they've basically trademarked hits as hard as the riffs. Every song on this album is a delight. 10/10 and easily their best, honeymoon period be damned. Sometimes you just know.
  11. Some quick googling indicates they don't share producers, but Tesseract is an influence on Spiritbox.
  12. Made it through the whole studio discography. I thought I'd be exhausted at this point but I'm starting to go through some live shows and it's elevated everything even more. Wish I found these guys sooner
  13. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Can't get enough of these guys. Just starting to dive down their live shows, especially post-COVID where they got a lot jammier and have more metal songs to add to their set.
  14. Rule of Nines came up in a playlist the other day. Yeah the unclean vocals are never my vibe but if they're used sparingly or as a secondary instrument like it's done here or on a lot of Tesseract's stuff it works. Great song.
  15. Album still holds up. The circumstances surrounding its creation are horrible beyond imagine, but it's going down as one of their absolute best. It's like if they re-did the first disc of In Your Honor, but the entire album is bangers instead of 2 hits and filler.
  16. From what I've heard of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard so far - still picking my way through their huge discography These are EXCELLENT: 1. Nonagon Infinity 2. Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava 3. PetroDragonic Apocalypse 4. Flying Microtonal Banana 5. Polygondwanaland 6. Omnium Gatherum These are a mixed bag but the highs are incredibly high: 7. Infest The Rats' Nest 8. I'm In Your Mind Fuzz 9. Changes 10. Laminated Denim 11. Gumboot Soup 12. Quarters! I'm having a hard time finding much from these: 13. Fishing For Fishies - a couple decent ones that probably work great live but I'm not digging the vibe 14. Float Along - Fill Your Lungs - way, way too psychedelic and 60s flavored. I get that sounding like everything's coming out of a blown amp is part of their schtick but it's too much 15. Oddments - psychedelic indie mess 16. Made In Timeland - ambient industrial weirdness There's still 8 more albums I've yet to uncover, a couple of which are spoken-word type that I'm a little apprehensive for. Excited about the other microtonal ones. I wish I jumped on this train years ago, it's hard to know where they'll go next.
  17. I just wrapped up PetroDragonic Apocalypse, and I think I prefer the opposite! They're both great. I think I prefer the more "prog metal" sound on this one over the more 80s thrash sound on Infest the Rats' Nest. These guys can definitely do metal even if they go out of their way to be cheesy with it
  18. This is how I feel about Infest the Rats' Nest, without having heard the new one. It's almost comedic for sure, their take on it, but not quite parodying it. They're into it
  19. I'm revisiting stuff I've listened to already after doing Rats' Nest. I'm appreciating how they've evolved even more now that I compare them. So far I've gone through: I'm In Your Mind Fuzz Nonagon Infinity Polygondwanaland Infest the Rats' Nest Polygondwanaland has a few moments where things don't quite click for me but it's also pretty dense and I need more time with it. PetroDragonic Apocalypse is next on my list!
  20. I've started my first run with these guys. This band is delightfully genre-confused. So glad I discovered them. Nonagon Infinity and Infest the Rats' Nest are great listens. Anyone else check these guys out?
  21. They've got a fanatical follower base like Rush but it feels more like the jam band culture with the nature of their music. I don't think their performances are overanalyzed as much as Phish or Grateful Dead, but there's an element of that there. I'm also not a fan. His vocals are atrocious.
  22. Tool 1. Lateralus 2. Fear Inoculum 3. Ænima 4. 10,000 Days 5. Undertow
  23. Alice in Chains Tripod Dirt Black Gives Way to Blue Facelift Rainier Fog The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
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