All genres of music need compression and saturation if you want the song to feel like its a cohesive thing; glued together, if you will. If you push it too far you get loudness issues. You can hear distortion artifacts and the instruments can start to kinda blend together too much, creating a bit of a smeared effect in certain frequency ranges. I’ll have to spin this on my speakers to see if I feel the same about it. I listened to it on headphones initially.
Damn, they made the same mistake with The Blackening (Machine Head), great album but too loud.
I’d get it for some funk or rock you really want to give a “oomph” factor, but I don’t see the point when your music is already (very) aggressive.
All genres of music need compression and saturation if you want the song to feel like its a cohesive thing; glued together, if you will. If you push it too far you get loudness issues. You can hear distortion artifacts and the instruments can start to kinda blend together too much, creating a bit of a smeared effect in certain frequency ranges. I’ll have to spin this on my speakers to see if I feel the same about it. I listened to it on headphones initially.