The Batlord

If you have to be a musician to like something, then it probably isn't all that great. My uncle's main criteria for liking music seems to be technicality, and I get the impression that he's just trying to justify all those countless hours he spent learning to play the guitar.

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Chula Vista

Didn't say that. Plenty of people who don't play like AAL. Was just curious about Urban.

What's your opinion of the track?

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I don't dislike it or anything, but it basically sounds like watered-down Meshuggah with a bunch of solos getting in the way of the whole point of the song.

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Chula Vista

Does sound Meshuggah. Not watered down though IMO.

Hey, to each his own. That's the beauty of having 72,456 genres of metal.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I say that because they're clearly influenced by Meshuggah, but Meshuggah's whole plan is to create as crushing and robotic a sound as possible, intentionally cutting out as much melody as possible, and all those free-flying solos get in the way of that by pushing the core sound into the background. It just sounded like the band wanted to have their cake (Meshuggah-esque brutality) and eat it too (play their self-indulgent solos). If that's your thing, then great, but to me Animals as Leaders were just adding pointless touches to a sound that didn't need it.

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