MB Metal Classics: "City" by Strapping Young Lad
 

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Count my vote.

damn, really?

this thing is a 10 for me.

Never listened to it

Hate Devin Townsend

it’s like the least devin townsend-y thing he’s ever made tho

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Repulsive Canadian bitch

Cannot stand

Say something about the album or die.

All men must die.

All men play on ten.

I'm not a fan of Devin Townsend, but I still usually find myself able to like his music a bit better than this. City was really, really tedious to get through. Not only is it almost unlistenable from a production standpoint (a common Devin problem worsened), but I also don't find many of the musical ideas to be involving at all.
The riffs mostly don't grab me, the drumming is pretty much just repetitive and bog standard. Forget fills and interesting changeups. This is Gene Hoglan doing some of the shoddiest work of his career. I've got to imagine that it's on purpose. The album is sort of like thrashy, grindy industrial - so they probably decided the drums should be robotic. But that's no excuse for a complete lack of engaging beats.

Another bad Devin Townsed habit rears it's head here. There are many simplistic and half baked attempts of some sort of melody peppered across the album, but they all fall flat in the extreme.

All there's left is sonically unappealing, horrifically undynamic robotic grinding that doesn't even sound impressively cold or machine like.

This album is giving me a headache and I hate it.

1/10, because I just can't listen to it anymore and I have to make sure I give it a lower score than whatever I gave Manowar.

Joey DeMaio knows where you live. Just sayin'....

If he comes visiting, I don't even have a proper place for him to sit. I threw my animal skin covered skull throne out last month.

Always the same isn't it? You hold on to something, thinking "nah I might need it". Then as soon as you get rid of it, some musclebound sword-wielding bozo shows up looking for a seat worthy of him... :laughing:

If I had a pound for every time...

sounds like someone needs a good pounding

So tell me, what do you like about this album? It's hands down the most unlikeable SYL/Townsend album I've ever heard and I've heard Epicloud.

You'd have six pounds, right?

It's an ok album. I don't hate it, but it doesn't blow me away either. I'm torn between 6/10 and 7/10 but I'll be nice and give it a 7/10.

It's got a lot of votes for an album with very few comments on the actual music.

It's good industrial jams but it's sterile as **** and not in a psychopathically cold way that you should expect from industrial music.

This album is a total motherfucker 10/10

You know what it says in the Sacred Book of Blank: Thou shalt scribe a comment - yea! E'en but a line or two - else thou shalt not be counted in the vote. Verily, 'tis written.

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Meh, I have a love/hate relationship with Townsend. I can really love some of his material, but some of it makes me reach for the fast-forward button. This would have my thumb consistently pressed down. In fact, I might just hit stop and be done with it. Actually sounds like he's just ****ing around, screaming like a three-year old (there's even a sound sample of a baby crying at the end of one of the tracks - I know how that kid feels!) and while there are some decent musical ideas, such as in "Room 429", they're battered aside by most of the rest of the album. I wouldn't listen to this again. Give it a four maybe.

Maybe I need to give him another chance

Upload a vid.

SYL ain't bad but he's about run out of chances from me.

Sorry I need embedded vids

Don't we all?

Who ya gonna call?
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not getting them today bud

YouTubes ain't workin', Mondo ma man!

Vote average 6.3.
Devin don't make it.