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The result challenges brain and body, sure (just try headbanging to obZen), but it also dares any other metal band to write a more ferocious album.
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obZen is a thoroughly enjoyable and engaging record, and is without question an early contender for metal Album of the Year.
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This is sheer attack metal, played by a band that has run from simplicity to excess and incorporated them both into a record that is on a level with anything else they've done, even if not all the elements marry perfectly yet. Just get it.
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Alternative PressThey're still crisp and cold--kind of like the Terminator--but somehow unlike Ahnuld, it's possible to hear a human heart beating within the steel. [May 2008, p.138]
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So while there’s very little that’s surprising about obZen, the album finds Meshuggah’s strengths filtered through tighter song structures and more approachable grooves than we’ve heard from them in a long time.
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The stiff, weirdly disengaged, single-note guitar solos and Kidman’s monochromatic death screams don’t make you want to keep dragging yourself through the record.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 69 out of 72
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Mixed: 0 out of 72
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Negative: 3 out of 72
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JoeG.Mar 19, 2008
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Mar 31, 2022Lets all take a moment and laugh of ble ders review. How can you be such a bad reviewer? Jesus christ
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Feb 16, 2022