Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
I always think I'm going to like this bands new albums, but there's just something about Hypocrisy that feels tired. I will concede that they have put out some pretty good records (NOT "Catch 22") in the past, but they haven't ever blown me out of the water. For me the problem lies more with their style than with the band's ability to write songs. The whole melodic death metal thing has run its course, and has been adopted and bastardized by literally hundreds of deathcore bands. So I'm sitting here trying to decide whether or not this album warrants the praise that critics have been giving it. All of the material on AToED is super solid, but if you listened to "Virus" then you already know what to expect. I guess my overall assessment is that this album is solid. There's nothing here that blew me away, but there also wasn't anything that turned me away. I wanted this to be as good as the hype made it sound, but at the end of the day it's just veterans retreading old ground. Thank god they do it well.
xoxo
Beardo
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