Style: progressive metal, avant-garde metal, metalcore (mixed vocals)
Review by: Dylan
Recommended for fans of: Between the Buried and Me, Unexpect, food puns
Country: France
Release date: 3 January, 2019
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This review was originally published in the January 2019 issue of The Progressive Subway.]
I’ve been writing this blog for about 7 months now, and so far I’ve never had an album left me utterly speechless. Until now. Phonopaths made a concept album… about food… with Metalcore-esque songwriting with comedy elements mixed in. Needless to say, I wasn’t sure if what I was hearing was the most brilliant thing ever written, or the biggest piece of garbage I ever found.
Let’s get one thing out of the way; the songwriting here is extremely competent, so it’s not like the guy just yells food names without riffs and a good amount of interesting instrumentation. The problem is that it is hard to walk the fine line between good comedy music, and unbearable comedy music. And I’m still not sure where this falls. I love the chaotic segments but then an interlude with quirky falsetto comes in talking about ducks and radish and I’m just like…..
Thanks to all that, for now I’m not gonna rate this album. It’s got good BTBAM worship instrumentation wise, but the comedy present in the album is something everyone will digest differently.
If I end up loving the album, it’ll probably be on my end of the year list. If it’s not there, assume the worst :p
Recommended tracks: Chasing the Big Sandwich, Readysh
You may also like: The Alpha Incident
Final verdict: ???/10
Related links: Bandcamp | Spotify | Facebook | Metal-Archives page
Label: Independent
PhonoPaths is:
– Wonky Joe (vocals)
– 80ris (guitars, bass)
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