sorciopeloso

You say this is the first full-length, so do you consider satanische verse (which, according to their site, dates back a year earlier) as an EP (one song less)? @iside: the chat wasn't working the night before last either, sigh!!

I felt it before giving an evaluation and...hmhmhmhm they sound good and are better produced but for the rest they don't seem essential to me.

Why the cover of the Japanese edition?

Well flood, I'm telling you, I've listened to the singles and basically I based my opinion on those; in fact, I didn't judge the album... I'm not one for a priori judgments.

I don't know, I really didn't like the singles, actually... I'm not surprised it got talked about, I suppose that's good, the NME... (so I'll avoid getting too close to the album :-D)

I listened to it and honestly, it doesn't seem like a masterpiece to me, quite the opposite... at times it's a bit boring. If it weren't for those names at the beginning, would we be sure it would have received such positive criticism? The rating for the review would be a 3, but to counterbalance a certain action ;-P my evaluation will be as follows:

oh really

:-O

Indeed, the final part of your speech, hal, tends exactly towards what my previous intervention criticized. Following the thread of ajejebrazorf, I would like to know how you position yourself when faced with artists who sing in a language you do not know and therefore you cannot analyze the content they consciously express? You assert that there are certain artists who want to convey specific ideas through their music, and that reviews dedicated to them should absolutely address the relationship between their music and the content of the lyrics: why should it be so? A person has every right to listen to (and write about) music without necessarily focusing on the words (there are multiple ways to engage with music, including one that completely ignores the lyrics and focuses solely on the sound of the words). Otherwise, reviews of nearly any genre would become, in my opinion, treatises on the content of the lyrics rather than comments on the music of the album under examination – quite feasible, but not mandatory as you seem to be asserting. Otherwise, one would have to start criticizing anything, any content deemed critiquable by us (perhaps not by others!!) – Carcass talking about disembowelments, RATM preaching well while behaving poorly, Gigi D'Alessio making songs about the beauty of love and then betraying his wife, and so on. Why is it hypocritical to claim that a person whose ideas we do not share can still make good music?

but I'm getting frustrated with everyone who writes/says post-blabla without explaining what it’s about, not just with you! Then, the fact that you’ve misused the term here is another matter! But, given your description of the genre, tell me what hardcore "normal" means to you or tell me if bands like f-minus sound like post-hardcore (the description fits perfectly and yet…!)