What is more metal than getting heavier than everyone expected?

Metal in the 90s got weird, y’all.

And just like that, I was back in, going back and listening to those singles that had released in the years since Eternal Blue and finding I had a new appreciation for them. Spiritbox was knocking down the door, and I was ready to let them in.

Reader, I can’t give you the reason for what happened next. Was it just finally listening to the album start to finish? Was it that I was in a vacation state of mind and thus more relaxed, more open minded? Or was it just that The Ocean had secretly created an absolute fucking masterpiece and I was just too blind to realize it? We may never know.