ANIMALS AS LEADERS - Conflict Cartography 

The cartography is PERFECT, brothers; absolutely no conflicts whatsoever.

I was expecting this album to be amazing, how in the actual fuck they exceeded my expectations I dont know. Entire album is a masterpiece.

This is the type of music where listeners know the band is extremely talented but still don’t fully comprehend how good it is

When Google Maps sends you off the wrong path and you have to fight frost giants.

Such a beautiful refinement of their style, it's almost painful waiting for their next release

Album 5. here it is, strap in

between this band & Periphery are my two favorite bands of all time. the technical intricacies & beautiful sounds they manage to incorporate into their art is absolutely bonkers

Lighting up a fat one to this album, great Friday evening.

Second playthrough. After Apeirophobia and then this, this album knows I’m going to die. That’s pretty metal.

Feels crazy to say considering the amazingness of their previous work, but this is their best album yet imo

2 years since this album came out, even to this day I’m still blown away by how insane this albums is

Hasn't been my favorite band for almost 10 years for no reason. Man watching you guys develop into this has made my life lol. Please never stop jamming

The drop transition at 2:13 is absolutely bonkers. Another flawless album from the animals!

The grooves are ever present with this one.

This is why I love this band: They write grooves I wanna bang my head to, but they use melodies and harmonies that make me want to cry my eyes out without exactly understanding why. So now I have to explain to my roommate and my girlfriend why I'm thrashing my body while tears are running down my face with my headphones on

This album was so amazing. And this was the perfect opener for it, strangely in a major key while still sounding super dissonant. Pretty much sums up the rest of the album while preparing you for it. GOTTA LOVE AAL 🙌

My favorite from the new album. Uplifting guitar melodies combined with AAL's usual dissonance and a mind bending thump-down. Love it so much.

2:10 stank face engaged

Coming hot out the gate, this album is gonna be so good

This is technical wizardry with exceptional melody

This is preceisely what those cartographers were refering to when they would write "here be dragons" on their edge of their maps.

This band is from a another dimension

Off the bat, I'm already getting some self-titled vibes. Not a bad thing at all. Love this!

Absolutely what the world needs right now🤛🤘

This song makes me want to turn into a superhero.

Incredible. As amazing as I anticipated. Can't wait to see aal live again.

Ears , Creamed Pants , Shidded.

Christmas come early this year

This is absolutely the best modern metal band in the world. And if you're high when listening to AAL, they're the best in the universe! Also album cover is wonderful🐍

Yeah baby thats what ive been waiting for woooooo

Best song on the album!! Deserves to be a single with fancy avant garde video!

amazing album, guys. truly. you took it to another level yet again

Awesome album was very pleased!

I'm glad every track breaks my brains butt.

Giving me goosebumps already 🙆🤩❤️

One of the few bands today that refuses to put out terrible music. Love them and all their projects

Truly gorgeous artwork

I follow you from the first album and will be continue

I cannot believe that I saw a mixed review about this album...I think this new record is GORGEOUS.

IT'S ALMOST TOO WILD

Seeing these guys perform live was the craziest shit I've ever seen hands down

for a split second I thought it was Dry Bone Valley by Mastodon :O

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Just a work of art!!! Matt you should have statues built because of how monumental your drum ethic is! Seriously so glad my buddy Dan lead me on to these guys when there first album released.

Here we are again, they never disappoint us ❤️❤️ another album I will sand 😂

Perfection 🙏🏻

This main riff.... Sooo good guys.

This song is always going to feel like starting a new Animals As Leaders album.

Glorious ambience.

That à perfect, Technical Band, INCREDIBLE.

This opener is insane!!!

Lots of Javier in this one

YES

This is officially my favorite album

Here we go!

Spending my day listening to the new album and filling everyone's inbox with links to it lol

Aw shit here we go!

This is some of the best music ever created..

No way. Only just found out about this album

incredible...

This song is absolutely perfect to open the album i don't know how to explain it but if any other song of the record was the first song it wouldn't have been as fitting as this one

So you see, the parrhesiastes is someone who takes a risk. Of course, this risk is not always a risk of life. When, for example, you see a friend doing something wrong and you risk incurring his anger by telling him he is wrong, you are acting as a parrhesiastes. In such a case, you do not risk your life, but you may hurt him by your remarks, and your friendship may consequently suffer for it. If, in a political debate, an orator risks losing his popularity because his opinions are contrary to the majority's opinion, or his opinions may usher in a political scandal, he uses parrhesia. Parrhesia, then, is linked to courage in the face of danger: it demands the courage to speak the truth in spite of some danger. And in its extreme form, telling the truth takes place in the "game" of life or death. -- Foucault on the Ancient Greek concept of Parrhesia, 1983 Definitely the mood of the album, makes sense in a lot of meaningful ways without ONE spoken word. Truly a great piece of work from AAL.

amazing

The pick tapping at the end, is a sound i have not heard in awhile.

On my first listen, transitions happening at 02:13 and 04:23 made me smile. A great album opener! Love the drums between 01:53 and 01:58 tastefully sprinkled with ghost notes. Those China hits at 01:20 sound so good! The drone-like guitars sound so ethereal. The rhythms are hypnotising. Having listened to the album fully now, this is my favourite track. A banger! Also, my favourite part of the record is ‘Asahi’ arranged as a prelude to ‘The Problem of Other Minds’, foreshadowing the guitar solo/riff on the latter, having an expansive sonic ambiance of its own.

This is improving the neural pathways in my brain as I listen to it

BANGER

This. Is. So. Addicting!

What a pleasant surprise.

I think how it is possible to remember this whole sheet music later. must be hard. Great work.

Anyone else getting "Weightless 2" vibes? Love it!

I'm here on my second listen through. I didn't get enough on my first pass

My favorite song of new album AAL 😍🤘

Powerful.

This is that oooouuuueeeee!!!

Insanee

April 16th at House of blues. Shits bout to be....... spiritual 😂

THE WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR THIS RIGHT NNOW

that sanke is beauuuutiful

3:09 the rumbling on the strings is so natural...

let's go.

also side note, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT INTO ALBUM FORM ON RU-vid!!! NOBODY DOES THIS ANYMORE

We are Dancing !! Girls Jumping!!

Perfectionnisme Jazzy Metal ROCK.

🔥

im gay

oh Fortuna still is number one but this is pretty metal

My favorite part is the section

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Each song is a whole musical clinic. Garstka going stupid in that phrase from 4:23 to 4:34

Damn!

WHY have I missed this

Aural bliss

2:12 thicc

"Now do a hundred hammer ons" in tosin or Preston Garvey's Voice from Fall Out 4 right when I was about to ace one of my songs. The apathy is killing me. I'm joyous at heart but I wanna die because im being stalked. Help me you fucking yuppies before I kill myself or someone on accident. I can't have fun or work. These people keep harassing me. 1. Game Hacks: barely audible heckles. Strange lag at any momentum. Animals and people flying through the air. Enemies standing still hands up or flying awkwardly across the screen. 2. Car speed changes: if I look to the left or right briefly the people in front slow down. If I go to slow they tail gate me. I have to accelerate and decelerate very strangely to avoid dizzying whip lash stops. 3. Walking blocking: employees and customers at safeway or target keep ramming carts, palettes, and waxers into me or just get blatantly in my way. 4. Guitar engine revs: If I repeat a song passed once this person revs his engine so loud I can't focus, stumble or feel nothing. They also heckle me and say weird stuff about mistakes or well timed complements that make me crash. I had 2 famous follows from Born Of Osiris but now I'm trying not to kill myself or someone else. 5. Employment issues: weird people keep picking fights with me and I get fired for defending myself or lack thereof. 6. Car issues: my car keeps breaking down everytime my credit is good or my job is consistent. 7. Chatter heckles: in my car or around my laptop I am constantly heckled by a black male voice, young girl, old Irish man and other super calm douche. They rhyme with my phrases and constantly say im a dumb stoner. 8. Car PC hack 9. Bathroom slams: every time I'm about to pee people slam stuff 10. Bathroom fumes: every restroom I use smells like fumes. 11. Breath timing: everytime I'm gonna breathe and feel tingles someone startles me with crazy sounds. 12. Teeth knitting: read above. 13. Phone menu hacks: my predictive keeps doing weird things. Phone menus load and unload forcing me to click advertisements. 14. Operator harassment: everyone at Dell, wells Fargo or the police treat me so weird. They never retain information like my social. 15. Weird noises when singing: if i sing they constantly break my melody and my larynx siezes. Weird noises or throaty sounds kill any note holding. If like a retard is singing along with me out of key. I love black people. Tosin Abasi inspired my unparalleled horizontal guitar technique because of his unparalleled vertical guitar technique. He sweeps and I slide. Big time stuff. I want Thomas Pridgen to drum for me because he's an ace but also because blacks and whites made this country. I love American History and now blacks and whites are being forced into extinction. I love gay people too. I know a few clerks who are really chummy. I even like weird pork where dudes have boobs. I'm moreso into miss Alice or Yifei Liu. I'm am under attack. I have 3 story frameworks that I've been pitching to you. The first two are Star Wars. This one is short and sweet: echozeta.blogspot.com/2022/12/star-wars-rival-dark-story-pitch.html?m=1 This one is very expansive: echozeta.blogspot.com/2022/07/star-wars-story-pitch.html?m=1 This is LOTR, medieval fantasy or WoW echozeta.blogspot.com/2022/12/otherworldly-medieval-fantasy-story.html?m=1 Here is my mental rape case aka my life. Please help me god. echozeta.blogspot.com/2022/07/sos.html?m=1 Here is my favorite cinema Star Wars episode I STAR WARS 4, 5 and 6 Star Wars: 2D Clone Wars (Dexter's Lab) Rogue One The Winter Soldier Civil War: Captain America The Avengers Guardians of the Galaxy V1 Guardians of the Galaxy V2 Thor Ragnorok Ant Man Ant Man and the Wasp LOTR Trilogy by Peter Jackson Jaws I love you man Role models 22 jump street 21 jump street Superbad This is the End The Interview Pineapple Express The prestige 310 to Yuma (Christian Bale) Space Balls History of the World p II Robin Hood Men in Tights Holy Grail (Monty Python) Alien Aliens (Alien 2) Sunshine (Chris Evans) Cowboy Bebop Samurai Champloo Wayne's World Actor: Chris Evans Actress: Yifei Liu Voice Actor: Steve Blum (Mugen and Spike) Voice Actress: Cipher 9 12 track album of unrivaled guitar slides, bends, chords and fret reach. Echozeta.bandcamp.com

fuck yes

Mantapp

Mmmmm so happy 😊💓 like sweet nectar

i don't know where I am, but I'm not lost.

The guitar lead work reminds me of the ost from DBZ Tenkaichi Budokai 3 soundtrack !

This gives Weightless album vibes noice