META

This album is just absolutely mind blowing. This band has really took meshuggah's style to new levels (as impossible as it may sound). Unlike so many modern meshuggah-esq bands, those guys wouldn't be labeled djent as they dont share that computerised kind of 8-string chugging (i.e periphery, tasseract etc.) But rather strive for very aggressive sound with barely ever laying back, changing riffs as fast as...erm something very fast. With the help of Joe duplantier (Gojira) as producer (even delivering guest vocals on one song) this particular album elevates to new heights, with even stronger sound design, without sacrificing the bands signature complexity and agression. All in all this is very highly recommended if you're looking for something on the heavy side and dont mind that there's very little mellower sounds through the entire album.

Car Bomb is the living embodiment of everything New York-based music could ever aspire to be. The band simultaneously captures the ferocity of the native working-class hardcore punk scene while also realizing the high-brow art rock aspirations of New York's saturated indie hipster rock scenes. But unlike your average hardcore or indie rock outfit, Car Bomb is actually compromised of exceptional musicians with the technical and musical chops to actually pull off something genuinely novel and refreshing. And, in the case of Car Bomb, their talents have allowed the band to fashion a unique and highly technical, even by today's standard, form of extreme metal, djent, and mathcore.

Meta is an absolute head trip from start to finish. The mind-bending rhythms and tone defying riffs are guaranteed to knock any metal head of their feet. Unfortunately, like so much extreme metal, the album can be a chore to listen through straight through. Monotony invariably sets in about half way through despite all the genuine novelty in the song writing.

This album is horrible, in a good way. CAR BOMB is a mathcore band that sounds like the lovechild between DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN and CONVERGE, AKA a noisy album. The technical fury is unleashed on Meta, with guitars that sound more like heavy machine guns or alien transmissions from outer space than regular old guitars. The album is all over the place but at the same time the band makes it sound organized with a bit of destruction. Meta also has guest appearances on the album with the vocalist of SUFFOCATION on the song Sets and the singer from GOJIRA on The Oppressor, he also produced the record. This album is ugly and awful sounding and it might turn off some people from listening to it, but I did not want to turn off the album even though it takes a lot to listen to it, Meta has beauty deep inside it that only a few people can see.