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The WireApr 18, 2012They're wise enough to leave breathing space, such as the final minute of "The Hurt That Finds You First," which codas into a swishing corridor of guitar licks, or "The Last vigil," which brings the album wordlessly to rest on a pall of interleaved, echoing guitar chimes. [Mar 2012, p.56]
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Q MagazineApr 2, 2012Leaving no room for nuance,it's a relentlessly dark wall of sonic aggression. [Apr 2012, p.101]
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Apr 2, 2012It assures us all that Meshuggah can still bury their copyists while leading the way when it comes to intelligent, thoughtful and undeniably brutal heavy metal.
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Mar 29, 2012Koloss runs the gamut of Meshuggah's craft and technical prowess.
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Mar 29, 2012Meshuggah have easily proven to listeners time and time again that they know their way around their instruments better than most, so even though Koloss isn't the band's most daring or experimental work to date, it's definitely worth any metal fan's time.
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Mar 27, 2012Although their sound has been copied Ad infinitum, with Koloss, Meshuggah prove that they still do it best.
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Mar 27, 2012The good news is, it's another predictably fantastic Meshuggah album. The bad news is, it's another predictably fantastic Meshuggah album.
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Metal Hammer (UK)Mar 26, 2012Koloss is truly phenomenal. [Apr 2012, p.100]
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Mar 26, 2012By making precise tweaks and adjustments to their sound by approaching Koloss with a new attitude, all the while holding fast to their core strengths, Meshuggah have given us the first truly engaging metal album of 2012.
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Mar 26, 2012The trouble is, not much sets this new album apart from their career benchmarks, like 2002's Nothing or 1998's Chaosphere.
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Mar 26, 2012Koloss, however, is a real triumph of its genre: inventive, surprising, pleasingly punchy, unashamedly aggressive with just enough shade, tone and melody to balance the raucous but impressive production.
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Mar 26, 2012This unpredictability -the 25-year-old band's trademark attraction--is what keeps them at the forefront of metal's vanguard, and what makes Koloss, for all its "normalcy" (joke quotes intended), the first real contender for the genre's album of the year.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 24
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Mixed: 2 out of 24
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Negative: 1 out of 24
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