Top tracks — play these first
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No One Should Read This — The track opens with an intense energy, setting the tone for the album while lyrically confronting themes of inner turmoil and societal expectations.
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Placenta — This song combines heavy instrumentation with haunting melodies, revealing vulnerability through its exploration of birth and rebirth metaphors.
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Murder Seed — With its aggressive rhythms and confrontational lyrics, this track embodies the band's raw emotional expression, making it a standout representation of their artistic vision.
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Red Light — Closing the album, this track encapsulates the overarching themes of struggle and resilience, leaving listeners with a powerful emotional impact.
Elevation
Our rating, out of 100 — and why.
AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.
The album showcases strong compositional ideas but lacks some polish in execution, making it distinctive yet somewhat uneven.
What we noticed
- The album opens with a high-energy track that sets a frenetic pace, maintaining intensity through the first half before introducing slower, more introspective moments.
- Vocal delivery alternates between aggressive screams and melodic singing, often within the same track, creating a dynamic contrast.
- Several tracks feature abrupt tempo changes and shifts in musical style, blending elements of metalcore and industrial influences into the nu metal framework.
- Composition 25% of the score
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7/10
- Craft 20% of the score
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6/10
- Durability 25% of the score
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6/10
- Distinctiveness 18% of the score
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7/10
- Sequencing 12% of the score
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5/10
the writing — melody, harmony, structure, lyrics
production, performance, arrangement
whether it rewards returning to it
whether it sounds like itself
running order, pacing, length
Known within its scene. Reported but not counted — how far a record travelled describes its reception rather than the record, and a newer release has had less time to travel than an older one.
Is this for you?
Good fit if you like
- dynamic emotional journeys
- long immersive listening sessions
- gradual builds and payoffs
- intense reflective moments
Where this album fits
- Moods
- Aggressive· Cathartic
- Career context
- Matriphagy is Tallah's debut studio album, released on January 1, 2020, marking their entry into the heavy music scene. The album comes after a series of successful singles and showcases their distinct sound, positioning them as a noteworthy new act in the nu metal genre.
- Stylistic neighbors
- Spiritbox· Lorna Shore· Vein.fm
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
- 1 [redacted] 1:13
- 2 No One Should Read This 4:43
- 3 Kungan 4:35
- 4 Overconfidence 5:06
- 5 Placenta 4:04
- 6 L.E.D. 4:16
- 7 The Silo 4:47
- 8 We, the Sad 5:00
- 9 Too Quick to Grieve 6:00
- 10 Cottonmouth 2:51
- 11 Murder Seed 4:28
- 12 the borderline of pain 0:48
- 13 Red Light 5:10
Reference: Wikipedia · MusicBrainz · Wikidata
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