If the band was called Tremendous, you would've given this a 10.

@randywhite3947

10 ай бұрын

😂

@drinfernodds

10 ай бұрын

Joey Diaz is the voice that plays in my head whenever I read the word "tremendous"

just need the Tomb Mold review and we're all good

@TyronTention

10 ай бұрын

Tomb mold album is awesome. A new fan.

@rockmovieswithtyler1989

10 ай бұрын

Exactly

@nikolademitri731

9 ай бұрын

Surprised I’m saying it, but I like it more than this one.. Both are great, but the new Tomb Mold is a strong 9 imo.. This I’d give a lite 8..

You didn’t have to call it Horrendous, Melon

@PorcelainArmsRR

10 ай бұрын

I would laugh at this but I’m clinically depressed

@patrickfwalter

10 ай бұрын

Dad? That u?

This album fucking rules, one of my favorites this year

@TheMetalTempestYT

10 ай бұрын

Agreed! :) Heya michael!

@Dan-ji4db

10 ай бұрын

Yuuuup

@michaelpurnell5203

10 ай бұрын

@@TheMetalTempestYT hey! Hope you’re doing well

@suskysulky

10 ай бұрын

I listened to it and was like comments gonna be bad but hey surprise

@DD-uy9zt

10 ай бұрын

Can you tell me your top 10 for the year pretty please??

Anthony please Never stop covering metal albums I swear to god please don’t

@morse8026

10 ай бұрын

Please do, he's clueless when it comes to metal, especially prog.

@thewildhealer541

10 ай бұрын

​@@morse8026Violent Sleep of Reason is his most clueless review of all time

@Heisenbinks

10 ай бұрын

​@@morse8026I mean it's just a preference I'm not really into prog myself

@ileutur6863

10 ай бұрын

​​​@@morse8026 I wouldn't say clueless, I thino melon listens to metal for completely different reasons and likes different things in it. Its clear he always liked the more abrasive and noisy side of metal, while not having much appreciation for prog and its other more nuanced subgenres.

@stankycrusthunk

10 ай бұрын

@@morse8026 Were you asleep or just not around when the dude gave praise to Kayo Dot, Cynic, Pissgrave, Gorguts, Vektor, King Gizzard, and that Satanist record by Behemoth that everyone went nuts for 'cause it didn't sound like blackened Morbid Angel? Those reviews exist on KZread in current year, you can go listen to them right now.

We want Tomb Mold!!!

Anthony and I don’t agree on everything, but on these 2 things we can: Horrendous rules and Sleep Token is a tryhard mess.

@Dan-ji4db

10 ай бұрын

Seconded

@LoyaltotheNightsky

10 ай бұрын

Thirded

@Remedy462

10 ай бұрын

I always thought Sleep Token was a pale imitation of what it could've been. Also, I call Sleep Token Imagine Djentons.

@DashieNegan41

10 ай бұрын

Hello my favourite Metal reviewer

@WFly101

7 ай бұрын

Yes!!

please do the Dying Fetus album. that one's great as well, actually one of my faves this year.

@chikinonfrydai

9 ай бұрын

he talks about it in his tomb mold review from yesterday

So many metal albums needing discussion - tesseract, pain of truth, tomb mold, dying fetus, and on and on. so many good albums this year

Didn't expect to see this pop up here, and was really hoping you'd review this one. I had the pleasure of chatting with the band and the love and passion put into this record really made me fall in love with it. I definitely still think I prefer Idol, but it's a lovely record from some of the best to do it right now in tech-death!

Yes! More metal reviews please Tony

Absolutely love these guys. Saw them in a dive bar about a month ago and they put on a phenomenal show and I got to talk with them at the merch stall. The drummer complimented my Thantifaxath shirt and said they were supposed to tour with them! This album is amazing, I would give it a 8 or a 9. The guitar tone is just stunning and the band’s songwriting is clearly a step above.

I'm an old friend of the bass player, and I was finally able to see them perform earlier this year. These guys know how to put on a performance, and they looked like they were having a blast. I urge everyone to check them out.

will there be a review of the new baroness album

It's great that you're doing extreme metal reviews, so keep it up !!!

Baroness album review when?

Idol is one of my favorite metal albums. I've been listening to them since 2017.

Incredible band. Incredible album. I think it's their most interesting work. I think they found a way to lay on a variety of emotion on this album. Which is oddly more lacking in a lot of Death Metal.

@squatchjosh1131

10 ай бұрын

I think that's just a result of the death metal ethos which is mainly to be macabre. It works for growling whereas it's more difficult to articulate more complex emotions or it's a bit of a clash. Not to say that shouldn't be experimented with, just that I kind of get it.

Expected a Yellow flannel for this, but I agree with pretty much everything said here. Fun record still. Wondering what your thoughts on Tomb Mold's latest would be seeing as you enjoyed this and love the new Blood Incantation maxi single, but tend not to like more proggy metal.

@PaunchyPilate

10 ай бұрын

Tomb Mold is awesome!

Thoughts on new Cryptopsy album?

Curious as to what you thought of the Full of Hell and Gasp split release, amazing in my opinion

I know you thought the album was bad anthony but you didn't have to change the band name to horrendous

@MNTNPG

10 ай бұрын

This album is way too good to be having comments like this at the top

@TophatOfficialMusicYT.

10 ай бұрын

​@@MNTNPGsorry lol

The main disadvantage of the new camera is that the records in the background are harder to make out. I get the D'Angelo, but what's the top one? Hyped to listen to the Horrendous album!

I'm really loving this album, is sooooooo amazing

I have yet to hear Idol, but personally I enjoyed this new album. Really loved how strong the influences from Death and Atheist are on here. I remember describing it as if Unquestionable Presence-era Atheist and Symbolic/The Sound of Perseverance-era Death decided to collaborate on a death metal album. I’d personally give it an 8/10 or even a 9/10 (4/5 or 4.5/5). Not sure if you’ll enjoy this since in the video you mentioned how you wasn’t into this style of death metal, but I would recommend Alkaloid’s new album Numen. The big catch though is it’s about twice as long as the new horrendous, but I personally felt they utilized every second very well. I’d also give it the same score as Horrendous’ new album since I feel they’re about on par with each other. Cool video and wish you’d do more Metal related videos too since I think they’re very interesting.

@alexquintero4521

7 ай бұрын

Definitely check out idol I think both that and this album are really true 💎

@doomguyrox1156

6 ай бұрын

@@alexquintero4521 oh yeah. I finally checked out Idol and really enjoyed it. I own both Ontological and Idol on CD and enjoy them both. Rn ontological id give a 9/10 now. One of my favorite records of the year

Seconding a comment below for your thoughts on the new Cryptopsy record. The band has been both blessed and cursed with the snobbiest fans in death metal music, so there might be algorithmic incentive for you to touch on the album. Also, imo, it's the best Matt McGachy-era record they've released.

You gonna review new Tomb Mold? Has very similar prog vibes to this Horrendous. Both awesome albums.

I've been enjoying the fast, loose, and varied nature of this album. It doesn't have the persistently sinister progginess of "Idol", nor the grimy sludginess of Anareta, but it feels like the band had a lot of fun making this album, and that gives it an infectious joy even during it's gnarliest bars that gives me a lot of pleasure when I listen to it. Would recommend.

This was my first encounter with this band and I was so impressed that I went back and checked out the much-hyped 'Anareta'. Honestly, I prefer 'Ontological Mysterium', but I'm more of a prog and black than death fan so that might have something to do with it.

@turkturk_95

9 ай бұрын

I'm personally of the opinion that Ecdysis was this band's high-water mark; not that anything afterwards is bad by any means, but that album just feels so energetic yet refined. The bouncy riff in "The Stranger" is so addictive and the mixture of that classic, grimy Swedish DM guitar tone with the proggy riff horizons that the band explores is simply superb. I highly recommend giving it a spin even if you're not typically a death metal listener.

Mighty Melon. What sort of audio setup do you use when listening to a record you are reviewing?

Fuck yeah this album is awesome, thanks for still reviewing metal Anthony 🤘❤️

You should do the new Baroness album. After your review of Gild and Grey I’m interested to hear what you think about Stone.

Agreed! Enjoyed the album a lot for the most part, just not as much as Idol.

How can you give this album a 7 and still feel the need to call it "horrendous?"

Anthony just because this album isn’t the quality of Angelic 2 The Core by Corey Feldman doesn’t mean you can give it a -3

Thanks for saying last 'two' albums, Anareta in 2015 was nuts

Great album. Melon needs revisit the starter pack series as well as the topster reviews.

I just found this album randomly on Spotify and couldn't believe how good it was. Now I need to digest the rest of their catalog

Great album, actually got a lot closer to Idol than I expected, good surprise

wallsockets by underscores just released with a feature from Jane Remover, by far her best and would highly reccomend

I'm looking forward to your opinion of the new album Love by Diddy. He was going for a 90s r&b hip hop vibe. I don't get that vibe from listening to it, but maybe you will.

0:24 we still havent forgiven you for that last meshuggah review Anthony

They named a band after what you thought of the album?

Currently metal record of the year. Sorry you didn't enjoy it that much. But yeah, in all honesty, I really don't understand how Snõõper and Feeble Little Horse are better than this. Also, that Chrysopoeia critique was a little uncalled for. Sure, they threw everything at the listener, but you didn't really talk about the riffs or the lyrics and just left it at "not the best approach." I think this album deserved more than just 6 minutes for a review.

Do a review of Dayshell’s new album Pegasus! I’d love to hear your take on it

Any chance you'll be covering baroness's new album stone?

Excellent album !!! It really grows on you, and you know when that happens, it has longer listenability than something that seems to be great on first listen but gets boring quickly.

If this were a pop album he’d give it the exact same score because he doesn’t have any genre biases 👍

@sittingyak

10 ай бұрын

As indicated in the beginning of literally this review he is strongly biased against prog and tech metal

@ishall9956

10 ай бұрын

@@sittingyakeh, at least he admitted it’s not his thing.

Sounds like a good smooth jazz album to me, thanks for the recommendation Anthony! 🎷😎

I'm glad to see this kinda stuff reviewed, as there's not nearly enough metal reviewed in an era where there's so much interesting stuff going on (was there a Terrasite review I missed?) That said, I dunno, it's strange to see a guy who reviews pop music regularly and gives artists pretty decent reviews who show almost no musical growth whatsoever & write very straightforward songs, then go to a prog death metal band who has shown like near-miraculous levels of growth from album to album, take easily one of their best records or tied for their best, and complain that they dont show that much growth! How much is a band/musician expected to grow? How much can one band grow & change before just sorta reaching their sound, refining & experimenting with it a bit from there? It's almost like capitalism brain to expect perpetual growth, leaps & bounds of growth across every album cycle--and it is not the same criteria applied to every genre or artist. I recall a now-ancient review of the Faceless where (in true tech death fan style) their experimentation and growth was the main complaint lmao. Anyway, review more metal. If most of your videos are about Drake & Kanye & Kendrick or Taylor Swift we're gonna have to revoke your music nerd card.

You need to check out the new tomb mold record, it’s absolutely incredible

September has been a pretty good month for music so far

Aoty for me but to each his own. Thanks for reviewing, I’ve asked at least ten times for it.

Maybe you can check out Gridlink's new record, it's some really solid grindcore.

Hey Anthony I always notice that you say that you're not very crazy about progressive/technical metal records yet in that genre it's all you talk about. You never talk about stuff like brutal death metal or goregrind, at least not anymore and I'm curious as to why. Is it because of the subject matter/album covers not being very advertiser friendly or is there another reason?

Jokes aside I'm pleased to see your recovery from covid 😊 nice review

fuck yeah, hope you checked out the new Tomb Mold record too, it's sooo good

Where is City Morgue My Bloody America ratings coming out???

Please Anthony review the new Nithing album! Agonal Hymns! Love to see metal on this channel! 🤘🏾💀🤘🏾

Please review world of hassle tomorrow for the sake of this year. It's number one hit so far

Please review Laufey's new album

You finally reviewed Horrendous! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I liked this album a lot, definitely more than Anareta. It feels like Horrendous are reaching out in the right direction but made something really messy. Coming off of Idol it had some big shoes to fill and just doesn’t quite make it.

What a great year for death year huh. This, Tomb Mold, Blood Incantation, Dying Fetus, Cryptopsy, Cannibal Corpse, among others along with the upcoming Suffocation

How about that new Baroness album?

I liked it way more than Idol. Also you should check out Stargazer (Aus) sometime

I know this album wasn't your favorite but you didn't have to call it horrendous

theneedledrop Could someone please ask melon to review (any of) the following for New Music Friday tonight? I live in the Netherlands, so I cannot attend the stream to ask him myself. Thanks in advance! Albums -Zelooperz, Quadie Diesel - Quazel -JAHMED - THE PROPHECY -Diddy - The Love Album: Off The Grid (ft. Busta Rhymes, Summer Walker, The Weeknd, 21 Savage, Ty Dolla $ign, Mary J. Blige, H.E.R., etc.) -VIC MENSA - Victor -The Alchemist, MIKE, Wiki - Faith Is A Rock -Doja Cat - Scarlet EPs EARTHGANG, Spillage Village - RIP Human Art Tracks -XXX TENTACION, RONNY J - EMOJI -SZA, Justin Bieber - Snooze (Acoustic) -J Balvin, USHER, DJ Khaled - Dientes -Brent Faiyaz - WY@ -Joey Bada$$, Rome Streetz - Fire At Ya Idle Mind -Logic, JRB - D.A.R.E -Gucci Mane, Beo Lil Kenny - Too Much -Troye Sivan - Got Me Started -Raekwon, Westside Gunn, Nappyhigh - FromTheProjects -Blueface - Baby momma drama -Lil Durk, Doni Bankz - SAVAGE -Conway The Machine, GetBreadZed - My Weakness -Kool Keith, DJ Muggs - Divinity 2 Infinity: The Odyssey -Future, Alonestar - See Me Win -SZA, Jean Dawson - NO SZNS -Open Mike Eagle, Deep Thought, Bryson the Alien - Stars in Their Eyes -Snoop Dogg, Exit Se7en - Hard Times -KRS-One, Clem de la Creme, Khadijah Tou Tou - Y.K.W.T.D. -Summer Walker, Bakar - Hell N Back -DJ Shadow - You Played Me -Zelooperz, Maxo - PlayDis! -Ab-Soul, Joe Peshi - Magic -Busta Rhymes, Skillibeng, Sean Paul - Summa Hot Remix -Bon Iver, Zach Bryan - Boys Of Faith -Kodak Black, Lil Tecca - HVN ON EARTH -6LACK, DC The Don - OUT OF MY BODY -Lil Baby, Noodah05 - Foul Out -Bon Iver, The National - Weird Goodbyes -JELEEL! - GFU!

pls review world of hassle it’s such a fun album 🙏

Hey ummm can you do Corrine Bailey Rae’s new album Black Rainbows

Sad to say I wasn’t as big a fan of this new record as I was the previous. Still enjoyable, though. Loved the jam sections

When is the Laufey review?

You gotta review GUM’s new record Saturnia!!

anthony, just because the band is called horrendous doesn’t mean you had to call the album horrendous

@turboshazed7370

10 ай бұрын

But it does

Yeah, still asking for the Mick Jenkins album!!!!

This is my album of the year, honestly.

No need to call it names anthony

Great album review.

Any chance of a review of Dream Big by Soda Blonde...no? Please 🙏

You're over a month late, I already decided it was great. This should be a review of Manii - Innerst I mørket

All hail Metaltano

Oh no you don’t! That “the band’s horrendous but they got a 7??” comment is mine!

Will you review sheesh! By boyjr?

Is Melon in full HD now?

@Fillz615

10 ай бұрын

Yes, you can even see his regret in giving MBDTF a 6 inside his head

You should review Noah kahan

did you ever listen to the latest Soft Pink Truth?

Damn, i really liked this album. I guess I can respect you saying it's a Horrendous album though, even if i disagree

Yeule album next!

Spot on with this one - agree on every take

Wow fantano I thought you already did horrendous reviews.

Review BBY Goyard and DJ Smokey LORESEEKER

Got confused and thought King Gizzard dropped a new project already

good luck with wallsocket anthony

review new Pretenders

Review new Tomb Mold.

can we pretty please with a cherry on top get a summrs - what we dont have review that dropped a couple days ago

Y U NO REVIEW THE ARMED, please Melonthano.

baroness next?

Heck yea, now do Tomb Mold

Decibel ranked this as their no 1 in their top 40 albums of the year. Personally I think that rating is for the album art. Some good moments but not necessarily a good album. Agree with Fantano for once that these guys stuff in every possible thing they can think of together and it doesn't necessarily make it an enjoyable listen unless you're some kind of technical elitist.