Phinehas is a cross between Darkest Hour and Haste the Day. There is some killer guitar work on The God Machine and the solos add a nice touch. A couple of catchy hooks here and there, but overall I don't really understand the hype. There's nothing that stands to me to make this record anything special.
The Speaking Stone is a cresendoing intro that jumps into Bad Blood. Bad Blood avoids having a clean vocal chorus structure and the arrangement is a little more interesting then what most of the metalcore genre is offering but it's still a verse-chorus-verse song structure, with some chug chug wee thrown in for good measure. A solid guitar solo instead of a breakdown bridge. A solid song but just nothing that grabs my attention. A Pattern in Pain is clean vocal city. While some of the guitar riffs are interesting and the hook is a pretty catchy melody, a found myself hoping for something more.
Tracks like I Am Lion, From One End of the Sky to The Other, My Horses Are Many, and Grace Disguised By Darkness are all solid tracks. Crowns is probably my favorite song on the album. The guitar riff instantly catches my attention and draws me in. But songs like Legacy, a short, minimal piano instrumental track, The Wishing Well, Pendulum, and That I May Love You, all take away from the album for me. I understand being diverse but it creates to extremes.
Phinehas isn't the worst band I've heard and there are enjoyable songs on The God Machine. But with all the hype I was really hoping for something special, something that would jump out and grab my attention and I didn't hear that on the God Machine.
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I'm honestly embarrassed that this is what the christian industry is still continuing to hype.
Hyping these guys to me is like trying to hype bottled water. The water may be cold and thirst quenching but its still just water (the most abundant natural resource on earth).
It's not a terrible album. I just figured that when people who aren't really into metalcore say that a band is worth the investment, there should be something special.
I'm sure the album is a very well executed metalcore album. But how many of those do we need?
Unfortunately for people like us there's still a demand for it, and its become too "safe" to put out a metalcore album instead of something outside the box.
I'm sure by 2021 we'll catch on to the sludge/ambient/stoner trend going on in 2011.
I'm listening to Isis and I think its making me bitter.
Listening to Isis will make you bitter towards metalcore.
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