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TEM and HITC are there on top with Friendly Fire. The rest of the top 5 is Thirty Seconds to Mars latest record I used to jam to a lot in early 2024

It has some of the dark nu metal feel of that song with the whispering etc... it's not a tight comparison, I mean it's not as close as Figure 09 or the CTB- BIO or Faint - HITC, but it has that kind of vibe. It's like Overflow feeling TS-ish without being preciselt comparable to a specific ATS song

Yeah Two Faced reminds me of Figure 09 and By Myself but it has strong HTEP/Xero vibes. The comparison with OSC is not very on point because I get the OSC mirroring in the bridge and the main riff but the rest sounds nothing like OSC lol, it has rap verses and the chorus melody is totally different

I bet it's a sort of mirroring lyrics, a reference. Lyrically the album is one of their weakest TBH, kinda formulaic and repetitive, but hey, sonically is amazing

According to HitsdailyDouble rumor mill FZ will be #29 on billboard in its second week with 21k sales . Pretty good https://m.hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

Yeah Stained is an easy skip for me, feels like I'm listening to a Rihanna/Katy Perry 2010 song... not my thing. And yeah I love GTG but it's a little bit melodramatic, Emily's part before the final " sometimes bad things take the place when good things go" is al little too melodramatic, like the song you would put as soundtrack for a romantic movie... sometimes less is more

I saw Nothing but thieves, Blink 182, Sum 41 and LP for like 80 € back in 2017, lol. 500$ for a ticket is crazy

CAAAAAAUGHT IN THE MIDDLEEEEEE COUNTING TO ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is stuck in my head since the day that shit dropped hahah. Love it

Really great reviews, kinda funny how CTB is among my favorites and Stained is by far my least favorite lol ahaha

The album is strong but my fear is will it stand the test of time ? Will I be listening to, say, Stained or OEO (my least fav songs) in 5 years ? I mean, THP is my least fav record by the band but I still do enjoy listening even to my least fav songs off of it from time to time after a decade, I hope it will be the case of FZ too. So far I try to calm my hype for a new LP record and I stay on a 7/10. Super solid record, I never thought we would see a new LP album in the first place, not to mention i did not expect it to be THAT good and that big, so it'as already a dream.

In other news the album sold more than 250k worldwide first week, we are on the level of THP and OML, amazing results. A rock band almost 20 years past their “golden age” comes back without their iconic singer and they go Top 3 in almost every country in the world. We are so back

Curious to see what you got

I honestly feel and hear elements of Victimized, War and KTTK in Casualty

I am not as negative as you but I can kinda see why you think like this, both songs are lesser versions of something the band already did (Faint with GU scream and War/Victimzed). I don’t think these 2 songs will age gracefully, but I do enjoy them today

Totally agree, plus OML is shorter and more packed even tho soft, you have energetic songs like GG, TTM and SFN

Let’s try HT ATS Meteora LT = FZ OML MTM THP Extremely conflicted about MTM, if it was an EP with the first 6 songs + NMS it’d probably be #4 or #3 ex aequo but the second half is something I hardly ever find myself coming back to. FZ position could change (maybe a little lower) but I really like it, short and energetic full of bangers

I loved the acoustic performances of OML promo tour, very intimate. But I admit I missed the excitement of rocky LP

A bit of Xero/HTEP and abit of By Myself/Figure 09

This is so much fun. When Mike spoke about searching for chemistry it's pretty clear what he meant

After many repetaed listens these are my brief thoughts: Ranking of the songs so far: 1 Overflow 2TEM 3 GTG 4 CTB 5 IGYEIH 6 HITC 7 TF 8 Casualty 9 OEO 10 Stained The album serves as a "hey, we are back! Do you remember us ?" It's a good record, could go on par with the last portion of their discography quality wise, concept wise it's very LT-esque in the way it sums up various eras of the band. I love it, but I hope, as some others said here, next records will be more about experimenting and exploring new stuff than coming back to the origins and fusing the prevoius albums. Overall I'm super excited and it's a 7,5/10. Feels good to be back

Yeah totally, especially the demo version of By Mysel with Mike whisperinh "so what do you say?" in the beginning. But yeah major Figure 09 and OSC vibes too

I kinda hear By Myself too. I love the goofy vibes of all the soing and video ahah

Self parody at its best ahah. Song is fun it’s like by myself 2.0

https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-linkin-park-from-zero-mike-shinoda-emily-armstong

Overflow is really something else, very interesting record, need more replays