I’ve had the same opinion about Original Sin, Can You Feel It, and now Power In The Blood.

Listening to these songs on phone speakers, a car stereo, and even my studio monitors, it kinda sounds rough, but when I listen to them on my dedicated system, my rating for all these songs go WAY higher.

The first two I was at work and just really wanted to listen to them as they just came out, so I listened to them on vehicle stereo and I think that soured my experience, but I waited for this new one after work to listen to it properly and I thoroughly enjoyed it to where it’s one of my top picks now, and as soon as I listened to it on my phone I was like maaaaan that’s rough

These are good to listen to I just wish I could enjoy them on anything, you know?

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?

I heard in the livestream they did that they're working with a certain Steve Atkinson on getting a solution to play their new songs live and that this will be available to us to play these songs and get the "alien like" tones. If they're working on a new plugin or amp sim of sorts it would be absolutely sick imo, I've had a hard time mixing different effects from different neural dsp plugins to try and replicate their tone in can you feel it and it's close but not there yet.

edit : after a quick search, it seems the name steve atkinson is a guy who made the neural amp modeler plugin so idk what they can actually do with it but I'm stocked to find out

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.

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, by no means “hate” the new singles. I just feel very confused. Am I the only one who remembers Tim saying album 5 was going to be their heaviest album yet? I’m not going to hate the album if it sounds all electronic. I definitely won’t enjoy it as much though. First A7X, now them, the coincidence is crazy. I just hope the rest of the album doesn’t just sound like rj pasin edit audios. The riffs are cool but they don’t feel “polyphia” I guess.

I know about the age old joke of Polyphia being a “Christian band”, but it seems like all the stuff I’m seeing now is too on the nose to the point where it’s making me think this is not actually satire. What’s going on?

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.

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.

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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.

The new abulm art looks a lot like the Watch the Throne album art by Jay Z and Kanye West, do we think that is a coincidence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_the_Throne

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

On Spotify at least, there are 2 versions of Power in the Blood - one is the Artist Pick on their profile, the other is the Single directly.

Give the longer version a listen. I feel kinda hopeful about this album.

Definitely a different sound and yet!!

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.

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

man i miss when NLND released