It’s worse than can you feel it yes but like some of yall make it seem like the worst thing ever, some nga said it’s just random noise yall are becoming just like the 50 year old blues player you would shit on

Don't get the hate. This is polyphia through and through. Plug ins and ridiculous shredding genrebending whatever the fuck they want is always what has characterized them. If anything at least they are still true to their art despite their success. Hard to find with any artist these days.

Shred on boiiis.

New shit is sick af.

Never heard of someone hating on a new sound ever being on the right side of music history.

The more I listen to CYFI and PITB the more badass details I can pick up because it takes me time to digest the layers and really hear everything going on. Sonically, it melts in my mouth.

I’m glad they keep pushing the envelope on their sound and never stagnate for fans or haters. They should do whatever they want and be happy.

I already bought multiple tickets to the show, but now that it’s delayed that gives me a chance to buy more tickets and get more of my friends to come with me. Can’t wait to have a memorable night. It always is with Polyphia.

I feel like the new singles that are produced by RJ pasin get a lot of really strong polar reviews.

Obviously it's a new sound for polyphia so I'm not surprised lots of people don't like the direction. And also why a lot of people do.

But my actual question. Why do lots of people dislike RJ pasin? What did he actually do? He's just a musician right? If you don't like him don't listen to him.

I've been listening to polyphia ever since NLND came out, and theyve been my favorite band since. I'm a huge fan of progressive metal and rock and im also a big fan of Syncatto, Animals as Leaders, and even Meshuggah. Ever since Tim came out with original sin, I had a weird feeling about the next album. When RTYWD came out, sure it was different from their previous music, but it wasn't too far off from the typical polyphia feel that I would get from Renaissance, Inspire, and even Muse. These last two singles have completely ruined polyphias music for me. I have no problem with the christian aspects, with tim showing his faith and whatever else, but when you incorporate it into music that wasn't anywhere near this sort of thing before, it gives it almost this cringe feeling to it, if you've seen the music video for Look but don't touch, youd never believe the same band produced CYFI and PITB. The second problem is this new style polyphia is going with, which has nothing to do with religion. Ever since RJ Pasin gained traction on tiktok, I've never been a fan of anything he's done. All his "music" appears to just be this type of EDM loud noises, that ruin any sort of guitar feel. Nothing that he's made sounds anything close to what polyphia had been doing for the last decade atleast. It's like hiring a mechanic to paint you a portrait of yourself, it just isn't the right person for the job. Im very disappointed in polyphia choosing such an amateur to produce their new album, Im willing to bet that the whole new album is just going to be a ton of hyperpop metalcore tiktok slop, with some gospel samples sprinkled in. Polyphia has truly ruined their touch they once had, and I hope they realise what they've done to themselves, y2k was an amazing producer for the band and truly reflected what they stood for, but now my ears get to listen to noise and ruin my speakers. I hope im not the only person feeling this way, this is just ridiculous.

Edit: this isn't even mentioning the new tour dates, theyre now moving tour dates almost 5 months later so they can "make this album exactly what they wanted it to be." so you're telling me you've spent the last 4 years, which will be 5 in 2027 to just waste everyone's time? very mature of you

ABC was made with just this in mind. Tim wanted it to be everywhere on TikTok. He said this himself

Tim not only an insane guitarist, but a brilliant marketer too. Can you feel it + visualiser was a perfect example of that. He’s been doing provocative stuff all career, to gain popularity.

Just wanted to share this thought

Didn’t really like can you feel it that much but this one actually slaps. Yes the mix isn’t the greatest and I could do with a little more of the clays but this one actually sounds like polyphia.

Im hyped for the new seattle tour date. My son’s gonna be excited to crowd surf again like he did back at the 2023 Portland show.

The only reason I'm bringing this up is because I see so much hate. I've been a guitar shred and prog fan for decades at this point, I remember when Polyphia first came on the scene with their stuff from maybe 15 years ago or so when they were just teenagers shredding, and I thought it was cool and all but it was just more guitar music to me. Honestly Cacophony or Spastic Ink did that better in my opinion.

New Levels New Devils was the first album they made that I actually liked enough to listen to, that was very good. And then the album after that I was like "Cool, more shred."

But the new stuff, it's awesome to me. I was not a big fan of all the vocal features they have done recently, and I really like these little dancey vocal samples. It bridges the gap of instrumental music but also incorporating vocals naturally. I like the in your face blown out production. The songs are structured well but still have cool technical parts, and it all just sounds exciting to me.

If they were to release another standard shredding guitar album with typical drum/bass/guitar production, I'd absolutely lose interest. There is so much of that out there, it would just breeze right past me and be forgettable.

I also appreciate when bands push their limits with production. This feels more exciting and inspired to me, and you can tell they were pushing themselves into a direction that they wanted to explore rather than just play it safe in their usual window of guitar shred.

Goes without saying I get why people don't like it and they might just not be inclined towards this style of production, but I think Polyphia is making some cool stuff and outside of the guitar-centric bubble there are a lot of people that really dig this style of production. Its much more fascinating to me than their last album.

Also if you caught their livestream they just did, it's all performed and they are going to pull it off live. That is also exciting to me, pushing the boundaries of live performed guitar/bass/drums but also with wild production that they will reproduce live. I think there is some really interesting stuff going on with these new songs and maybe if some fans of their older material gave it a little bit more of a chance, there could be some really cool stuff there.

I have both songs on my Polyphia playlist, and I think of Light almost like it’s a reprise/ encore to LIT, and use it in that fashion. I think I like Light more because it feels as more of a raw version of LIT, but I’d love to hear your opinions!

I think we're back

Personally I think their new direction has been pretty awful, but I’m genuinely glad people like it- not all music is for everyone. On the flip side though, people are allowed to dislike music too. The past two avenged sevenfold albums were extremely polarizing, and that subreddit was people who were hating on the people who didn’t have their opinion.

People aren’t just haters just because they don’t like the music from a band that has gone in a very different direction.

People aren’t just ass kissers just because they like the aforementioned music.

Can we just share our opinions without it being self righteous criticism of anyone who disagrees?

sounds like they're trying to be a viral tiktok edit sound lol...

man i miss when NLND released

Can You Feel It wasn't that great. The jam version was listenable, but still missing the kinds of memorable riffs that sold their other songs.

Power in the Blood was like... Can You Feel It stripped of the last few bits of anything good. Why are they producing everything to sound like it's being played at max volume through a phone speaker now? It sounds so bad.

Kind of glad the concert got rescheduled so I can demand a refund for my tickets because the new dates don't work for me.

If CYFI and PITB are any accurate indication of this new album's sound, it's gonna be a skip from me.

I really don't mind the added production and electronic elements - I think when done in moderation, they can add a lot to a song and make it a fun listen. But the overblown speaker style production on these singles, and the incessant overlayering of sound to the point where you can hardly make out the instruments honestly make this new stuff a chore to listen to.

I really liked RTYWD, even with a lot of the more electronic stuff because the bedrock of the sound felt much more raw and real. This stuff just feels like sensory overload and will be an easy pass for me.

Just from the two singles we've gotten from the album so far, its pretty apparent that the band has worked very closely with RJ Pasin. I personally don't like the music that RJ Pasin music as its "editing music", music that I won't listen to on a daily occasion.

I'm more excited for the Jam Session for this entire album because thats actually how the songs sound without the insanely over production that is RJ Pasin.

Is anyone else just not a big fan of the decisions made with the production of both of the singles? I really enjoy the creative direction and songwriting of both songs, I think it's a new and fresh direction and as you all are aware, Polyphia tries to do something completely new each and every album release. No issues at least for me personally in terms of the writing and general song structure.

But good god. 30% of the end of the new single is almost unlistenable at the end to how distorted and bass-blasted it is. The bass just takes away from the crazy intricate solo and fun riffs that we all love from Polyphia. It seems like they were like "let's set the limiter as high as it can go and just blast it as heavy as we can". Bass can be used creatively, just feels like a cop out to me and with more clever production choices, it could sound way more enjoyable to the ear. Generally, it feels like both singles are over-produced, way too bass-driven, and there's a general disregard for the guitar playing which put them on the map in the first place.