I shouldn't have read any reviews because these songs sound nothing like what people tried to describe. KTTK and All For Nothing are amazing though.
Because the band was never going to leak it themselves. They had planned to do an iTunes stream of the entire album today, which is not a leak. Unfortunately, with this leaking prior to that stream...sadly nobody's going to really pay attention to the stream. So we didn't think we "knew better", and we never pretended to. Infact Joe said several times that the album would be out today either via retail leak or other means. Joe called it, and was correct. We never acted like we knew otherwise.
What the fuck are you on about? Almost everyone said it would leak today. Go through my post history and tell me where I said it wouldn't? Speculating that a leak would happen on the week of release is so stating the obvious that trying to brag about it is ridiculous. As for Chester, he was still wrong, it's not out in Germany today.
KTTK... if LP ever meant to go "visceral" this is exactly the kind of music they should do. Some of the best shit I've heard in AGES. I love the chorus in All for Nothing. War is filthy as fuck, gritty. Chester sings like Tim McIlrath, the song sounds like something Rise Against could do. Mark the Graves sounds like Foo Fighters mixed with The Hunting Party guitars. Drawbar is broody and atmospheric, I could see it in ATS. I expected something soft transitioning into some heavy shit in ALITS, and it's more or less like that. Not so fond of the "rapping" in the bridge. The beginning sounds like Hands Held High, then you hear Victimized with Guilty All The Same mixed in it, totally over the place just like Mark the Graves. Some songs are meritory of Grammy awards in this album, some don't go past the mediocre bar. There's traces of the things I like and there are things that I feel have been put in the album for the sake of being there. Overall... ATS is still motherfucking king, but this shit opens up a whole new perspective. My highlights are definitely Keys to the Kingdom, Wastelands, Rebellion and Mark the Graves.
Hey Derek when is the stream? I would much rather hear it through that than the shitty audio of the leak
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