As I have sat and listened to this album closely for the past hour I can now review it correctly and here's what I came up with....
This album is one mishmash of indistinguishable songs all together.
But thOrN you love embodyment, yes I do and that's another reason this band grates on my nerves. Is Kris singing?? Oh no he's playing guitar... well I suppose since he's in the band the singer can sound exactly the same as him. Maybe Joshua (vocalist in SF) was singing this style before Kris, I don't know, but Kris pulls it off better with far better vocal phrasing too, we'll get to that. This album sounds as if embodyment had gone on in the direction of "Halo of Winter", off of the SolidState sampler, only not as good. Kris' voice has more range than Joshua's and Mark (drummer, embodyment) played better. I think I was expecting more as many were with the release of embodyment's Embrace the Eternal. But even when I downloaded "Lucky13" off of the SolidState site I started doubting.
What's that about vocal phrasing??? Well you know lyrics, how they are printed inside the booklet??? You might as well throw the booklet out on a few songs rather than try to follow along. The lyrics read like poetry but are sung in spurts and out of time with how they are written. This just REALLY bugged me trying to read through with the music. Also many songs have whole sections with lyrics not printed, then the vocals pick up towards the end of the song skipping one to two verses printed. I understand trying to get the listener to think a bit for themselves but this just really ticked me off. But in all the lyrics are AWESOME don't get me wrong there. They sound like new versions of psalms with praise and admonishment plentiful. I just had a hard time dealing with the phrasing part. So get over it I did.
A few fellow writers wrote about a cool layout.... Well I found the layout neat but rather bland for a metal type band. It looks more appropriate to an alternarock band. Good but just different. And along with layout comes PRINTING THE LYRICS CORRECTLY!!! (maybe they did and I'm a retard, so I haven't gotten over it, sorry)
Yes there are a few really good tracks such as "Knife Fight", and "Dead People" but overall the entire album runs together. I do like this album despite my somewhat negative review of it. Maybe ten more listens and I'll be hooked (very probable)
favorite tracks: Knife Fight, Dead People
7/10
Other coverage for this album
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