@Raven: Sparky just left the band.
khelek@metalreviews.com wrote:
Ok now we're talking. The accessibility that I find them to be incorporating on this album is, as you put it, a jump for the mainstream. I thought I made that clear in the review, and my reference to Bullet For My Valentine was not made lightly.
Seriously? You need to define accessibility. Hearing BFMV when it's just leaning more towards their Negative Approach or Assuck influences is ridiculous. I feel like your approach to this album is entirely wrong when you're comparing them to Behemoth, Decapitated and All Shall Perish. Those 3 are entirely different and MI has really not much to do with any of them.
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Their form of music may not have changed over the past two albums, but I also found Traitors to be similarly forgettable.
This is better than Traitors since it's less polished.
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After I listened to this one a few times, I went back to my favorite album by the band, Retaliate, to hear what exactly it was that I found so appealing about this band. Retaliate is musically better in so many ways. The songwriting is much more inventive without resorting to generic chugging riffs, instead using changing time signatures and much more technically interesting guitar and bass work. I'm not going to go more in depth at this point.
Honestly, I've never heard Retaliate and got into this band through Discordia so we're going to have different expectations.
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Let's be honest, you can write the best lyrics in the world, but if they're being growled this brutally no one is going to know what you're saying unless they take the time to read them, which I find to be increasingly rare these days. And if you can't remember being particularly moved by the music itself, it becomes even less likely.
If you can't keep up with brutal dm vocals, you just need to listen to more brutal dm.