Transmissions

Halo trickshot montage.

Sounds like Imagine Dragons woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

Teenage me would've put this album on repeat, I think. Loved it

Transmissions is a rather generic sounding prog/hard rock album by Starset. What to write about it? It sounds ok, but just not interesting in anyway. It reminds me of 30 Seconds To Mars, a bands that makes 30 seconds a very long time to experience.

This sounds too much like the soundtrack to a Michael Bay film. Nothing against soundtracks, but they’re created to complement the film. There’s no film here so those grand instrumental bits feel saccharine. The vocals are overly dramatic. Lyrics are cliche after cliche. Production is falteringly derivative. Instrumentation is solid, but ends up feeling off balance with nothing else to latch onto. 2/5

Man, this was not good. This was bad, even. Sorry, person who added this, but this is as stereotypical as it comes for alternative rock in the 2010s, and the Michael Bay movie trailer soundtrack going on as the backing track the whole time just makes it more groan worthy. Add in a ham-fisted space theme and you've got yourself an album your 12 year old brother is sure to love, and that should probably concern you. Is he okay? Getting enough love and/or attention? Go check on the little guy. And show him the Beatles or something while you do.

I had never heard of STARSET before, and I'm not sure why they'd escaped my notice. I love Coheed and Cambria, and STARSET's alt-metal/prog leanings and sci-fi concepts fit right into that niche. "Transmissions" really grew on me and demanded repeat listens, and then I went and checked out the rest of the band's work.

Imagine Dragons but they scream a bit more. I know the reputation of bands like this, especially among the audiophile community. Childish. Simplistic. Overly stylized. Lame. BUT FUCK YOU GUYS IT RULES.

I'm constantly amazed by bands I've never heard of on Spotify with 400 million listens. There's a lot of money been spent on orchestral accompaniment, glossy videos and special effects. It's not bad but very fomulaic. And yes, it does sound like a sci-fi film soundtrack.

Hard rock, alternative rock, electronic rock, progressive rock. Ni fu ni fa.

Not bad

Symphonic, polished, carefully produced metal (or metal-adjacent) concept album. Sounds shiny and expensive, and not as heavy or thrashy as my favourite metal albums. Still good, but a fair way short of greatness.

I feel like there's a genre label on this sound that I haven't encountered yet. I don't quite mesh with it - just wall to wall "it's epic". A little baroque.

Pop punk band with a good synth player who then got into playing harder. Also see ‘I See Stars’

This is that new wave of rock music that's been popular now for the last 10 years or so. Foundations in rock, but they mix in some electronic/dubstep sounding stuff by times, and screaming to make the music seem more hard. Very similar to like Bad Wolves, I Prevail, or Ice Nine Kills. Not terrible....it's the kinda music that's trying too much to be hard. I'd think that adolescents, or people just starting into rock and metal would like this kinda stuff because it's more palatable. Radio stations and media would like it too because it also has foundations in pop rock. All that to say, I get why it exists, but not my favorite. It sounds good and it's catchy, but looking at it from a traditional rock/metal standpoint, it's just kinda soft. And this whole album has snippets of like a sci fi/space travel movie playing in the background....which is annoying......it's like fucking skits on rap records .....why is it there? Favorite songs: My Demons, Halo, Down With the Fallen, Carnivore, Let It Die Least favorite songs: Telescope 3/5

Liked the opening then it turned into 2000s emo rock

If this came out in 2004 it would’ve made more sense given the whole vibe of the album. I probably would’ve loved it if it came out then. It has a strong Linkin Park sound which may be why they could pull it off in 2014. It’s not as hardcore as some other numetal music but it also isn’t much different from a genre that was significantly more popular years before this album. Doubt I’ll revisit this one. 5.6/10

Damn, I almost missed this. This is awesome. Have loved "My Demons" for a really long time, but hadn't thought about listening to the whole album. But not much is happening throughout honestly. 2

The sort of rock music that just does nothing for me.

Awfully ponderous and generic, metal lite (but with all the bombast) and typical of the era. Not one’s thing, though can see how others might go for it (mainly the brooding intensity, which falls pretty faux on one's ears). No need to add to list proper but one wouldn’t notice if it switched out for basically any other metal album.

30 Seconds to Uranus Pretty generic and grating. Recommend Sleep Token over this any day.

Deras största idoler är nog Linkin Park.

Rating: 5/10

Shite tbh

Seriously? Not good, in fact, bad. It's like Linkin Park but way worse.

I've listened to ~1700 albums between the 1001 and a few other lists the past few years, and this is the first LP I wanted to skip outright. I knew exactly what this would sound like from the first track in, and the next hour only proved me right – this banal, mass-produced ass-rock was everywhere in the early teens, and this has all the failings one would expect from the genre. Walls of forgettable midrange guitar that are supposed to be heavy but sound thin, songwriting that makes every track somehow feel the same, and of course the most basic, trite lyrics and rhymes you've heard in your life. Pretty garbage all in all, if this is your idea of an LP you must listen to before you die then god help you

You can’t fool me with high-concept sci-fi and distorted guitars…I know pop music when I hear it.