Allt - From the New World (2024)^{Release ID: 55186}

It appears to me that the metalcore kids are beginning to take control over a sizeable portion of the progressive metal community. The kicker is that they don't call it "metalcore" so as to draw the unimpressed Eyre of the progressive metal snob. Instead they call it "Djent" with a silent "D" to prove their sophistication. Allt are a generally new band out of Sweden who made strides throughout the early 2020s and released From the New World just the past week as their first full length LP. And let me just say: nothing about From the New World is remotely prog. It contains thall tuned guitars, atomic drop breakdowns, glitchy production and the occasionally catchy vocal hook. And yet I still really enjoyed it.

I know this album is not without its faults. The production can become excruciatingly frail at times; when guitars are tuned this low with this much feedback, it only makes sense that their would be some peaking in the mix.  In addition, the overall texture of this album does cause some of the vocal lines to become condensed and resorted to backgrounds. But even with all of that, From the New World is actually very concise, has more than its fair share of catchy grooves and licks, and the production issues are more sporadic than I might have made them sound earlier; it's probably a better produced record than the recent albums from Humanity's Last Breath or Currents.

Best Songs: Remnant, Echoes, Emanate, Ephemeral