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SYRE is legit such an underrated album, like legit Kanye-tier shit, so I'm super hyped on this. The promise of another four part intro has me wet already tbh Holy fuck there is just a straight up no frills punk rock song on here wtf, goddamn, Jaden brought the old Cudi back out on On My Own too holy fuck this is good

Bless up, Pi'erre so stupid underrated ?

This site NEEDS The Life Of Pi'erre 4. I don't know anywhere else to legit cop it tbh, everything else an obvious virus site.

So what's the damage? How bad?

Honestly, I think The WIZRD might be my second favorite Future project ever tbh

Oh it's definitely gonna make my list so far too, the songs themselves are great and the production doesn't change that. Additionally, the production works for I'd Do Anything but only because it's an entirely fucking different song than anything else on the album or that they've ever done, and I'm gonna go ahead and say it might be my new favorite song of 2019. Absolutely fucking crushingly powerful song, the last chorus had me in tears on my first listen.

That's exactly the thing, the production definitely does seem like a conscious choice, because like I said, that's what Fridmann is known for, that over-compressed/over-saturated raw sound. It works for some bands, especially ones he's known for producing like The Flaming Lips and Number Girl, but it just doesn't work for Baroness. Which is a shame, because the songwriting here really is masterful, these guys have been honing their craft and getting better with each album, but I think this one is to the point where the production is so distracting that I don't nearly enjoy it as much as Purple. Otherwise, I'd say my ranking of their discography up to that point goes chronologically until this one, which I would put behind Purple now; it wasn't as bad or distracting on Purple, but it's just fuck awful at some points here. Enjoying the fuck out of these songs, but goddamn, I'd fuck for even a live album at this point just so I can enjoy these songs without the shitty production gimmick lmao

Wasn't nearly as bad because there was as much purposeful clipping and over-compression. Go talk to any audio engineer and they'll tell you the #1 thing you never do is compress a distorted guitar because the waveform is already fucking compressed to begin with, that's literally what distortion is.

All music takes talent to make, shut the fuck up

Listen to how rough Throw Me An Anchor in particular is; listen to how the guitars legitimately sound like they're being squashed, the sound of them mixed in with the drums are actually distorting, it sounds like they're growing in size and trying to break out of a room that their mass is becoming greater than - this metaphor is almost exactly what the mixing process is like - the sound is so loud that it's literally hitting the "roof" of the limiter on the master bus and clipping because of it. It's atrocious, which is such a shame because the songs themselves are fucking exquisite. Even if these were the most perfect songs ever written though, there's no possible way that this album could be a 10/10 solely because the mix drags them down.

Implying DS2 isn't a defining album for the genre. You're not even good at trolling.

Based on the mix on the last single, this is gonna be a rough ride to say the least. It's a shame too, because their songwriting is top notch, as is Fridmann's production, but not in tandem. Fridmann's production work on the last two Number Girl albums is fantastic but it worked so well because Number Girl is an unbelievably raw and powerful band, whereas a band like Baroness deserve super pristine and sparkly production, not clipping and limiting. Why are you booing me, I'm right? Go fucking listen to Sappukei and tell me that Fridmann isn't more suited to a band like that than Baroness.

Go back to your exhibit at the museum.

How the fuck is Girls Have Fun not on this!?

Wew I hope this is good because the last two were uhhh...not that good.

Yeah and have you ever noticed that Slayer has sucked massive donkey cock forever? Oh god though, this is such a huge shame to be hearing about tho, fuck nazis forever, we beat em once, we'll beat em again. Damn shame tho, I never really looked into the lyrics on older stuff either, but Paracletus is one of my favorite black metal albums ever. Might have to relook into what it's thematically about now tho

"Me think not hard enough, me have small brain"

"Favorite Genre: Industrial Metal"

Gays, assemble !!

Not sure how I feel about it yet. I just wish they would do more, harmonically. So many metal bands are afraid to experiment with harmony and feel like everything they do has to be minor riffage and that they can't experiment with like interesting harmonic structure outside of heavy minor harmony. There are some points on this album where it sounds like they’re just about to go somewhere incredible sonically but then they go somewhere else that’s much less exciting than what I was anticipating. Some of their prior work did that really well tbh, like the grandiose structure of Twilight Of The Thunder God, the way it sort of mildly changes its dominant key during the solo and the chorus is just really fucking cool, and I wish they would do more of that type of thing. Mjölner, Hammer of Thor really succeeds at being interesting in its songwriting. Raven's Flight is the one song in particular that just bothers the fuck out of me, because the songwriter in my head is expecting it to go to so many cooler places and then it just keeps going back to fucking chugging open barre chords instead of going into interesting chord changes that would lift the whole song up. More Amon Amarth is never a bad thing tho, just wish they were trying a little more. idk, 6/10 so far maybe?

It's pretty solid, but definitely their weakest effort to date. I guess I just expected more seeing as Frank is in such a turbulent point in his life and people usually make really powerful art while in a state like that.

lol Get your dictionaries out, fellas.

Nice it leaked so early, but think I'm just gonna wait for the 320 to drop.

Really hoping this one is good because the last one was atrocious. First three records were incredible tho.

Holy fuck, this might actually be even better than Oxnard tbh?