Yeah I was managing a record store at the time so I was getting promo copies & press releases and I saw a comment about "new foray into heavier drop tunings" and I had just heard this from Anders coupled with the Cloud Connected single it was just bad news on top of bad news.
Oh his fucking Jonathan Davis impression is what had me totally out on that record. I could accept some sonic differences, but he sounded so dumb.
Yeah that's the deal breaker for me too...I mean I won't pretend I didn't see it coming on tracks like Ordinary Story or Only for the Weak but there's a threshold I can stomach per album and he stayed under that til Reroute
I wasn't ever the biggest Clayman fan either. Colony was the last record that truly gave me fanboy vibes until the first few tracks if their last one.
Same, and same
Colony changed my life.
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