This was 40 minutes of my life I'm never going to get back that I spent listening to this mishmash of garbage. If you're unfamiliar with who Rings Of Saturn are, they're a California Technical Deathcore band, and have also been accused of being not only sellouts but recording at half-time. (Totally making you guys look better to me.) I love hearing Technicality in the Core genre, I really do, but how Rings Of Saturn did it, it felt like Babby's First Brain Drill album. Dingir is the second full length by Rings Of Saturn, following their masterpiece (more like masterfeces) debut album Embryonic Anomaly. I'll do a review of that atrocity later, when I'm done slitting my wrists in the bathtub and drinking Clorox. Credited with being one of the "most original Deathcore bands" (to which I personally call bullshit), they really fuck up this title by making every song sound so similar you will forget every riff because of the sheer amount of breakdowns and sweeps that plague 7/8s of every song. Enough of introducing this, it's time I begin with the albums pros.
Pros: Well, I really only have 2 slightly minor pros. First off, with the 4th track "Dingir", I slightly enjoyed 5 seconds of the ending, and then it went back into sounding like Brain Drill-style wannabe wankery. The instrumental track "Utopia" was a bit more diverse on such a bland album, but much like all 9 other tracks, it was really generic. At least they tried, and by they tried, they took their heads out their own asses for 5 minutes to write something that was slightly comprehensible.
Cons: This is going to be the biggest part of this review, and I can guarantee it already. To begin, as I said earlier, 7/8s of this entire album is breakdowns and sweeps, 1/8 being riffs that make you feel like you have the mind of a goldfish as you'll forget them almost instantly. (I forgot them for sure.) Rings Of Saturn play with every stereotypical gimmick of the Technical Death Metal and Deathcore genres, tech wankery and breakdowns that don't transition very well. (Lucas Mann, your skill does not make your writing any better.) In fact, the songs in themselves don't transition well to the next song either. The vocals of Ian Bearer feel too much like a Mitch Lucker ripoff, and not a very good ripoff at that, not more I need to say on this part. Halfway through listeniPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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