(as I've had it up to here with shitty belts which fail to keep one's pants up whilst constantly bending over picking boxes and dizzyingly wrapping pallets),

Morb totally nailed the non essence of Far Beyond Drivel, I mean Driven...except I'll admit I'm a punched sucker for the opening slam-bop riff to "Je Suis Casse". (Also appreciate robotiq's nod to God of War.)

With regards to the slaughtering you gave FBD in your review Morbert there's a couple of things to look into.
Firstly FBD came out about 6 or 7 months before Korns debut so I'm not sure how Becoming can have a Korn intro.
Secondly I'm presuming you mean "two decades" in that mind-boggling 5 Minutes Alone Lynyrd Skynyrd sentence.

Well, simple, especially in retrospect, because the riff just sounds more like Korn than Pantera. And as I'm reviewing it in 2023 releasedates between specific albums are less relevant to me. Bands inspired other bands also with live performances and demos anyway.
Perhaps Korn took some influences from Pantera and eventually they both inspired eachother even more mid/late nineties. All quite possible but to my ears that riff sounds more like Korn than Pantera. So I called and will keep calling it a Korn riff. Also Neidermeyer's Mind was released in october 93. Thought it had no title at the time.
I even dare say, I started calling that specific riff 'the Korn riff' after many friends indicated said riff by that name and we all knew immediately which one it was. It's the song with the Korn riff.



oh, and yes, 2 decades. just a type-o
Mind boggling is fun

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Entombed/Left_Hand_Path/415337/Echobreather/1527769

Please stop to public that !!!!

So if I can write well can say all bullshit that I want?

Funny enough, just turned on Clandestine. Crank that shit up - wonderful.

Luckily not. But all his criticisms were backed up with enough description to understand where he's coming from. As Emp said it better, it's a pov that really makes sense when put into the perspective of a very young person which is also primarily a fan of stuff released 30-something years later. Of course none of us agreed with it, but strictly speaking there's nothing we can do about it.

For me, the amusing part is that Left Hand Path's production is legit really good for a 1990 death metal album.

"King Diamond has deathcore solos",

This one was only like 2 years ago, wasn't it? Good times.

"Deathspell Omega is basically pop music", "King Diamond has deathcore solos", and "Blind Guardian ripped off Sepultura".

"Deathspell Omega is basically pop music", "King Diamond has deathcore solos", and "Blind Guardian ripped off Sepultura".

I thought Young People Critiques were weird but a lot of it started making sense when I heard something criticized as a "one genre album" (and that review implies the same thing with the whole "if you listen to death metal and only death metal etc" bit at the end). I recently came across the artist Jasiah, and while listening to his new album, which was primarily aggressive rap with screaming and features from other screamy aggressive rappers like Denzel Curry and Scarlxrd, I was thrown for a complete fucking loop by a handful of completely legit rap-less punk songs scattered in the back half. I think stuff like that is just kinda becoming the norm in popular music and if that's what you're acclimated to/looking for in music then yeah, old school extreme metal is gonna come off as completely one-note since the variations between songs are a hell of a lot less immediate than full on genre switches.

Glad to see Lorna Shore getting what it deserves. Good God, what an overrated, overhyped band. Oh well, what can you expect from a band who only broke out of the deathcore niche and became widely known elsewhere because their vocals turned into a meme.

I also think 'being beaten over the head with the same song 8 times' is an underrated pleasure. As well, crafting a consistent atmosphere across an album is obviously a whole lot easier to do when the songs sound similar. I also think metal has one of the most passionate and dedicated fan bases of any genre, so honestly this is totally to be expected and I by no means think this is bad thing; it's just something to note.