Exodus is one of the most surprisingly bad albums I’ve heard all year.
When Shokran wanted their new record to be different from their past
work but be similar to it as well, I assume that just mean incorporating
more from front man
Dmitry Demyanenko’s solo album “Insomnia” a wonderful prog/djent record
with beautiful instrumentation and solo work. I did not know that it
meant to remove almost every djent styling entirely.
Shokran had some melo-hardcore elements before, but they were always
used sparingly. The harsh yelping mixed with the typical growls gave
them a “djent Black Dahlia Murders” vibe. This album tosses out almost
all djent in favor of melo-hardcore that is basically asks “what if
Suicide Silence, the worst parts of 5FDP and Linkin Park had a baby?”
and the result is one of the biggest cluster fucks of a record I’ve
heard in a while. It’s shocking how awfully thrown together most of
these tracks are. The melodies are boring, and every time a djent riffs
does come back around, it lacks any sort of skill or class. Instead of
upgrading from “Insomnia” or “Sixth Sense” Shokran tried to win at a new
genre, without knowing a single thing about that genre
Exodus is a sloppy mess of an album from a band (or at least one guy)
who have the talent to make djent a more sustainable genre that what it
currently is. This however, is not an example of any of that.
4/10
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