They literally are not a metal band lol As a lifelong fan of all things in the metal genre I decided to try listening to them just to see what the fuss was about. I listed to most of 2 albums. One seemed to shift from new age to indie to something that sounded like the soundtrack to a movie, the other mostly sounded like electro pop music.

Both albums had short segments of sort of heavy nü metal sounding guitars kind of tacked on almost like an after thought. It seemed completely disjointed and the various parts didn’t really fit together at all.

If you like this kind of music fine, I’m not going to tell people what to listen to. Some of it was actually pretty good here and there. I just don’t understand this overwhelming need people seem to have to call them a “metal” band. Why would anyone want to call it that? They seem like one of those bands that would prefer not to be pigeonholed into a genre.

It’s almost like if you had a band make an hour long album of classical piano music and the composer stopped every 10 minutes to recite some bland sanitized rap lyrics for 30 seconds and everyone decided it was the greatest hip hop record of the decade

  • @[email protected]English
    4•13 days ago

    Depending on which albums you listened, Take me Back to Eden and Even in Arcadia have a lot more metal to them than their first two. I think Vore and Infinite Baths have to be two of their hardest off the top of my head. They also often times have heavy breakdowns in their songs taking something more mellow to being more metal.

    I don’t know where I’d truly classify them. You have a song like Vore and then DYWTYLM on the same album and they are very different. I think overall if I was going in not knowing them, I’d have gone with some sub genre of hard rock. Really I’m not a purist or anything like that and couldn’t tell you one sub genre from the next, so to me it’s rock music, which also encompasses metal.

    But I would recommend listening to their latest two albums if you listened to This Place Will Become Your Tomb and Sundowning. I personally think they’re more enjoyable because they’re a bit harder and that’s part of why they’ve exploded over the last few years.