Do you have a true 320 copy? If so, please plant it in my ass. I have a copy that says 320, but I thinks it’s a transcode. Also, the copy I have cuts out in the middle of the last track.
Riff salad, but in a really good way. The riffs never stop, and they're much more melodic than what you'll hear on most other brutal death metal albums. They also develop the ideas in each song with a lot of efficiency, which I appreciate when listening to this genre. So many bands don't know how to do this and end up making their songs way longer than they need to be (as opposed to, say, doom metal, where the length is justified).
YOB is right up my alley musically, but I generally prefer their 2000s material to most of their recent stuff. I really like Our Raw Heart and think it’s the best of their three most recent albums in terms of both production and songwriting, but I can definitely see where they can bore people. The riffs are crucial since their songs are definitely repetitive, and at their best their music can really hold me in a trance and then eviscerate me with walls of apocalyptic sound. But if a song doesn’t have a riff you like, well, you’re screwed because you’re gonna get a lot of it. I like “In Reverie” more on second and third listen, but in a lot of ways it’s YOB by the numbers.
If you have 21 minutes to spare, this is one of their older songs that I think is a great example of YOB’s use of dynamics, more so than a lot of the new album.
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I did like The Screen a lot more though, but even that got a little repetitive at the end.
If you have 21 minutes to spare, this is one of their older songs that I think is a great example of YOB’s use of dynamics, more so than a lot of the new album.
https://krucyator.bandcamp.com/track/deliverance-to-the-worms
https://imperialtriumphant.bandcamp.com/track/swarming-opulence
Abyssal Gods is one of the best metal albums of the decade though.
haven't seen a band do this kind of metalcore justice in a good while