Extra heavy and harsh math rock/metalcore. A lot like Iwrestledabearonce, but feels more black metal and post rock than those guys, depending on the passage.
Some of the passages have some clever drum rhythms meshing with cold, hard guitar chords, and these parts tend to be the best bits. Mostly not into the softer bits. I'm all about melody oriented music and rarely listen to harsh sounding music, but that also means that I'm not gonna be easily impressed by some pretty sounding soft bits if the songwriting just isn't really there. And it kinda isn't, sadly.
So the heavy bits fare the best, but I find the vocalist to be a problem. She's capable of doing both a pretty, clean voice and harsh black metal screams, but for both approaches, she's rather one dimensional. There's basically no expressive range in any way within either vocal style for her, so she's basically mediocre at two very different things, which I guess is still impressive in some way. Any scream she does one moment sounds exactly like any scream she does at any other moment. Completely one dimensional - and the same goes for her clean vocals, sadly. It's basically that there's no subtlety and dimension to what she does. She has a good voice, but does not have the heart of an artist.
The distance between the best heavy bits of music and the rest makes this one hard to rate. I'm gonna go with a 4/10 since they're very competent. I just find their melodic compositions to be lacking a lot and their singer to put a rather disappointing damper on the album.
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