Reacting to Fantano's Worst Albums of 2023

[@desperatelycravingahamsandwich]

fantano and opium is going to be a long term rivalry i alr kno

[@itsallenwow]

Opium not gonna last long term imo

[@carterpochynok4874]

​@@itsallenwowSo basically a long-term beef from Opium's perspective.

[@obsidiancrow450]

OPIUM!!!

[@gluemonkeyfan.714]

a great chaos is th best album to come out of the opium label

[@mr.pothosswag8396]

All of opium has atherosclerosis and irregular rhythm from all the Lean and fast food. I'd give them all Two years.

[@kylesmith5633]

The only good thing about ajr is that at least some things never change. Pandemic, chaotic election, personal tragedy, disappointed by your idols? Don’t worry friend. That same fucking ajr album will be coming again next year to give your comforting feelings of lukewarm familiarity

[@showumy]

If that’s your thing I suppose hahahah

[@nicholastricarico2957]

Well, that, and Drake being as everpresent as toxic fumes in the Chernobyl air.

[@carol20333]

For me it's absolute terror nothing conforting about it only showcases year after year all that is wrong about it all

[@KingCamilloSchnuffkin]

If we'd live in the 1920's Fantano would look like some kind of bookmaker

[@Myiic]

this is the most random but accurate comment ive read in a while

[@krypt0939]

this comment got me shaking my legs up and down like a girl gossiping on the phone 😭🙏

[@h77habib]

Heitaro Kimura

[@FilYRU999]

He sort of looks like Fernando Pessoa without his hat

[@mcfarofinha134]

Yeah, he looks like the type of bookie to run rigged af horse races and boxing matches

[@whatastandupguy3050]

Honestly I loved the last time you went through his best singles list, it was nice to see you enjoying a bunch of stuff you’d otherwise not have heard of, and it made me start going through his lists to find music on my own!

[@Blubberplays]

Them headphones bigger than the state of Connecticut

[@Tyler108x]

I love how fantano can give something a 3 and it’s just gotten to the point where people see that and go “oh, so it’s okay sounding then, or maybe even good”

[@PandaSafadopudim]

Fantano liking sexy redd is the best thing this year

[@bigmankam]

No

[@turboshazed7370]

Best thing last year

[@f4gsforpele]

No 💀💀💀

[@trevor245]

The switch up on the world's end girlfriend album is pretty crazy. People liked it quite a bit on aoty and rym but now that Fantano didn't like it suddenly people start hating on it. I really don't think it's that bad. I must say I haven't listened to the entire album only around 25 songs or so but still.

[@99morphine]

I listen to loud abrasive obscure edm genres, but this is unlistenable, especially that ave maria song

[@geiseric222]

@@urfatherty of course, have you? Because to be honest you sound like someone who just gets off on being contrarian I didn’t even see this dudes full review of the album just this video

[@trevor245]

@@geiseric222 this album had like a 78 user score on aoty before the fantano review, now it's 67 iirc.

[@geiseric222]

@@urfatherty oh hey you don’t like someone invalidating your position with assumptions weird If I wanted to waste your time I would make you listen to the album by the way

[@bigmankam]

@@trevor245 and on rym it was around 3.60 or more before the review and now it's on 3.52 Fantano effect

[@smackheadsgyro]

that bill cosby song is so funny man im dying (emotional)

[@royalflush7457]

Thanks man lol

[@FrauStormm]

21:42 the Texas Roadhouse rolls with the whipped honey butter is worth having to deal with the playlist tbh

[@EvenFlowX93]

Fantano if you're reading this we need you to do the funniest thing ever and make a reaction video to this reaction video.

[@halkitchen1838]

Imagine an AJR fan’s grandma accidentally buying them Knife Man by AJJ for Christmas

[@tellmenae]

underrated comment

[@jayjayjitter]

Considered myself an AJR fan for a while. Loved their music, didn’t get the hate, knew people could have different taste but still thought they were overreacting. The band’s genre may not be super mainstream but I thought they offered some good music to the table. Saw posts of people being like “this is the worst band EVER” “absolute trash music” “the band members SUCK” ect ect so I decided to keep it to myself that I liked them. But then I heard a close friend describing them as shitty millennial theatre-kid pop techno and I was like…. Whaaaaaa??? These guys are NOT techno not pop not ANY of that. Was wondering if my ears were broken cause I was not hearing that at ALL. Finally confused out of my gourd I searched up AJR into spotify (I had randomly been recommended a song and simply saved and listened their stuff from there) and instantly it clicked. The album covers, the band members, the summary, this was not band I was listening to. Hell, I had no idea who those three lil white dudes even were. Seems I had mistakenly read AJJ for AJR and never questioned it until that moment. It was a cathartic moment to know I’m not actually some secret AJR fan and that instead I’m just stupid LOL

[@stuFF625]

That Royal Flush album gives off serious Pink Guy vibes. Nostalgic.

[@RH-kd3gc]

That ave Maria song sounds like the Analog horror version of itself.

[@KingCamilloSchnuffkin]

[@purpleclouds0]

More like Brad Taste in Reactions, am i right guys?

[@shonkywonkydonkey]

The World's End Girlfriend version of Ave Maria sounds like if Muse covered it for the Origin of Symmetry album... and then you downloaded it as an mp3 off Limewire in 2008

[@Tacoz3AM]

Hi shonky!

[@jyjjy7]

Did I re-encode it to 320kps for the highest quality sound?

[@oneupglitch2582]

And that's why I love it

[@justsomecommentchannel8602]

ok you gotta admit even if you hate muse that that's unfair to muse

[@illford]

​@@oneupglitch2582it's not very good imo

[@Saientific]

Those headphones are fucking ridiculous

[@blitzerama]

I think A7x at number one is in the same vein as Fantano giving Cudi number one. Clearly there are albums that are worse than it without a doubt, but there’s a level of effort and willingness to step outside the box that I think he admires. If something “sucks for the right reasons”, it’s more deserving of number 1 as an honorific.

[@tracelawrencex]

i love how you always support your fathers channel ❤️❤️

[@gelpens750]

30:00 I feel that man, I have family that believed in qanon and like try that in a small town

[@JKJK-xf9ou]

Calling A7x new album bad is the only music take that has actually upset me

[@bruhnanners1136]

I was surprised LIBAD was on the list to begin with let alone number 1. The hate for this album is atrocious

[@skateorpie]

The album was so meh to me. Definitely not a bad list

[@ethan.branthoover3460]

I get how the vocals are offputting, but synyster gates and brooks wackerman were on their A game this album

[@ileutur6863]

Its a disjointed mess that tries to be something more than the sum of its parts, but stumbles and fails horribly before even starting. It sounds like a 14 year old's idea of prog metal

[@bruhnanners1136]

@@ileutur6863 I get that, but there are still plenty of things that can be appreciated off pretty much every song. It may not be the most organized or the best sounding album of all time, but that's exactly what they wanted. I'd say they accomplished what they set out to do

[@nathanprice2514]

Love ILCK being on here cause it was my most listened to album this year lmao

[@flynn6904]

i genuinely don't understand the vitriol towards the world's end girlfriend song. i would totally get people not really being into that kind of music finding it boring, but to make claims like 'this is what people who don't like post rock think post rock sounds like' seems pretty over the top to me. to my ears it started off pretty inoffensive but then when it locked into that groove with the mellotron sounding instrument i found it to be rather hypnotic and i kinda fell into it. i listened to the full song after watching this video and i have to say i actually think it's quite great. it evolves a lot further than that when you give it a chance and i actually think it sounds like something that would be right up your alley. try giving that song a full listen without the pretext of fantano's opinion bc i genuinely think you'd enjoy it if you opened your mind a little

[@oneupglitch2582]

Same here. It's honestly pretty great.

[@oneupglitch2582]

I respect your opinion, but I didn't ask

[@turboshazed7370]

​@@oneupglitch2582.... What?

[@oneupglitch2582]

@@turboshazed7370 Responded to someone who deleted their comment

[@parforet]

that worlds end girlfriend album is absolutely not 1/10 caliber to me. its more of a 6/10 album for me. i found the unashamedly gaudy maximalism throughout to be pretty admirable. admittingly, some of the elements thrown at the wall can come off half-baked, dull, or silly at times and the unrelenting maximalism can get tiring (especially on a lengthy triple album). however, the couple instances where the chaotically dense mishmash of glitchy sounds; abrasive noise; post-rockisms; orchestral strings; and various other elements actually comes together (such as in the name of love) are genuinely a bit sublime. that being said, id point to hurtbreak wonderland as a much better starting point for worlds end girlfriend's music.

[@kenimerlewis]

I agree, it’s more of a 7-9/10 for me but I understand a 6/10 too, but again, a 1/10??? It just makes little sense

[@oneupglitch2582]

It's actually a 10 in my opinion, and my 10th favorite album of the year. Maybe I just have bad taste but I found it genuinely consistent for a 2-and-a-half-hour album. I can see why people who aren't into this kind of stuff wouldn't like it but it was right up my alley.

[@itstoucann]

the thing that annoys me most about hardy - radio song is the metal drop is so fucking quiet. why is the country instrumental like 4x louder than the part that's meant to be loud

[@OutgoingGamer115]

Imagine putting the avenged sevenfold album as worse than the transphobic boogaloo 2 one

[@turboshazed7370]

I can.

[@FamousCoozie]

I mean the Avenged Sevenfold album is hilariously bad but so is that rightoid chud nonsense so it's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

[@FunkyFlunky2332]

It basically just goes to show how lazy, uninspired, and blatantly try hard TB2 was that it couldn’t even be considered worse than albums like Avenged Sevenfold’s which actually had some attempt at making something only for it to backfire horribly. It’s just another way to diss TB2. It’s an album so weak, effortless, and forgettable that it can’t even achieve being the worst album of the year because it doesn’t even try to be anything more than pandering to dorks needing their fragile worldviews validated all in an effort to make a quick buck. It’s honestly a miracle it even landed on this list at all given just how little artistry went into the album whereas most of the albums on this list did try to have some sort of artistic expression

[@amberplease9537]

that ave maria song reminded me of muse i almost got nostalgic what the hell

[@KingCamilloSchnuffkin]

I kinda felt trapped in an oldschool graphic cards test animation-loop but in slowmotion

[@jamesovenden3833]

Sounds like Muse to people who REALLY hate them

[@amberplease9537]

@@jamesovenden3833idk dude i used to be a hardcore muser, I WISH matt would do that stuff instead of whatever the band is doing rn

[@jamesovenden3833]

@amberplease9537 couldn't agree more. I love their earlier stuff too!

[@oopsalldrip1376]

went from hd600s straight to Empyreans congrats brad, you made it

[@hamham_6411]

tbh i love meguri, the world's end girlfriend song brad listened to; it works brilliantly as the tribute to his lost child weg intended it as is it messy and over the top, sure, but so are the avalanche of emotions coming with the situation that inspired it, and it succeeds at representing those with flying colours if you take the 9 minutes to listen to it in full the slow buildup and periodic addition of noise manage to represent something being off, the wall of noise as a climactic payoff works as the representation of death, the glitchy noises in the outro are just as jarring as getting painful reminders of your loss can be it's a masterpiece in telling a story without a word, much like eateot ...the problem is that he already released it on an ep 5 years ago (hence the immense number of listens on spotify) and he just re-released that half-a-decade-old song on resistance & the blessing with no changes and if you think i'm gonna make the same kind of defense for that ave maria rendition, you are dead wrong, holy hell what was that

[@mr.pothosswag8396]

I don't see the connection to Everywhere at The End of Time. Been listening to WEG for maybe half a decade, heard it all. He doesn't deserve worst album of the year in my opinion. Even the Ave Maria he produced was still a complete composition. It isn't grating, but rather disturbing, and maybe that's offensive to Fantano being that the Ave Maria is a beautiful song his italian grandmother likes.

[@hamham_6411]

@@mr.pothosswag8396 fair, the two of them come from very different backgrounds; eateot is a depiction of dementia from a well-researched outsider, meguri is a depiction of grief by someone in grief i do stand by the fact that both of them masterfully use sound to making the listener understand the feelings they're trying to convey as for the ave maria rendition, i may be biased, as i watch a lot of analogue horror on youtube, but i couldn't help but recognize the exact same effects being used as distortion in some of those works i'm fairly sure quite a few of them were actually used in the fnaf vhs tape series i can see that weg attempted to go for disturbing vibes there, but because of this prior exposure, the effects he employed made it sound incredibly hackneyed, amateurish and vastly below someone on his caliber

[@mr.pothosswag8396]

​@@hamham_6411 Do you like the song he made and he used Miku vocaloid in it? Rending the soul.

[@smaaron_j_46]

💀 I was not expecting CDTV to jumpscare me

[@RapAndCereal]

3:01 I see you there, Fluffypants

[@rmh032]

If Radiohead put out the Ave Maria bit it gets 10/10

[@riyad81200]

Yes. Because it's Radiohead.

[@Ozukai]

Indeed, cause elitists are always there to defend anything radiohead cooks 💀💀💀

[@Bighomie39]

Yeah if that was on Kid A people would be praising it as genius

[@boyloftus]

bradley i love you so much :3

[@_ProveIt]

You look like you're about to travel to space with those headphones.

[@thomasherrington7237]

My favorite way to consume fantano's content!!!

[@HTXlifer]

Great to see Fantano put NAV at #1 best artists again!

[@-Orion.]

that ave maria sounded like if matt bellamy was even more fucking pretentious in his music making which shouldn’t even be possible

[@diceroanoke7363]

Him putting LIBAD at number one, over BRAVE 2 is absolutely psychotic.

[@ninjax9675]

as someone who liked LIBAD a good bit, I understand every one of his criticisms. But there's no good reason why it was even in the top 10 worst this year

[@jooree7696]

Brave 2 might be worse, but do you honestly want to give that album all that attention by giving it the #1 spot?

[@Stardevoir]

​@@jooree7696Agreed, Brave 2 might be worse but it doesn't deserve the honor of being ranked as the worst

[@turboshazed7370]

​@@jooree7696I'm with you

[@diceroanoke7363]

@@jooree7696 I mean, I get what you’re saying, but I feel like putting a band at number 1 for trying something different is almost worse than giving someone as pathetic as Tom MacDonald attention. I hate Tom MacDonald, but putting LIBAD above it in terms of how low quality it is is such a massive insult to A7X that it’s kind of mean.

[@ImGarbino]

The a7x album was most certainly not worse then the Roger waters album

[@erikskywalker3130]

I got the same text from my mom as Brad and had the exact same reaction. I was crestfallen

[@wadekemmsies7180]

LIBAD is the first A7X album I enjoyed since their self titled back in 07 so this kunda hurts lol

[@cammogoesblammo4663]

nightmare and the stage were awesome but i understand not enjoying them

[@tw20239]

Not hating ur opinion but what about nightmare and the stage make them less enjoyable than LIBAD and self titled, not gonna ask that about hail to the king cuz I get it's problems

[@crustpunkjesuschrist]

Please at the very least react to his best albums list, my sole mission in life is getting people on the Jeff Rosenstock train and Melon made it a lot easier

[@KingCamilloSchnuffkin]

6:12 Brad couldn't believe it. wt actual f'ck

[@BlckPollen]

You know a rapper is cooked when he starts collabing with Latin and Russian artists while hoping on yeat and reggaton beats

[@izumiii_yt]

not gonna lie, pump rock x heavy metal is my guilty pleasure song, i love how much fun and dumb it sounds

[@hugobecookin]

I think ur the only person I’ve ever seen admit this

[@Jeffersonthebrown]

Big Baller B is 6ix9ine and westside gunn had a baby and started making music

[@FatherZacky]

bro i cant take Brad seriously with those gigantic ass headphones

[@BananaHammocks]

idk if theres any crossover in the fanbases but brad reminds me of how the efap guys cover movies

[@Corroderptor]

Imma look up Royal Flush after this. He might be the next Pink Guy

[@argkitsune]

Bold move of Melon to put Kid A and OK Computer and The King of Limbs on the list

[@tonydub98]

Now THIS is comedy 🤣

[@samuelrussell4733]

Please do a reaction to the best songs. Loved when you did that in 2021

[@lagrits]

i second that!

[@nameymcnameface6657]

Gonna be honest Fantano just really doesn't like greta van fleet. Which is fine they aren't groundbreaking or anything but putting that under the Carti album is certainly one of the takes I've seen

[@derwunze8147]

I would love if you reacted to his best lists too!

[@kenimerlewis]

L opinions on World’s End Girlfriend, it’s an experience lmao, but I will say it’s hard to get through, I wouldn’t say it’s bad though! It’s really well made and ambitious

[@thevidkoproductions]

is my album the worst of 2023?

[@31pyrex]

nobody knows you lil bro

[@Taco_muncher]

Nobody knows who you are lil bro

[@ineffable_eldritch_horror131]

I'm visiting my mom and and showed her ave maria from that album and she told me to go put some salt by the door

[@djradish4]

Im more surprised Gunna wasn't on this list. A Gift and a Curse got a 1/10 And he puts a 3/10 album on here interesting

[@EntrEsprit]

that's what i don't understand if you give this 1, why it's not in your worst of the year list. if you give kids see ghosts 10 why it's not in your best of the decade list

[@turboshazed7370]

​@@EntrEspritit was tho

[@rrrednaxelaaa]

Brad did it again

[@anap3333]

I feel like people hate on the new sleep token album just to sound cool, putting it on worst albums of the year is one of the worst takes EVER. It's not the best by any means, but one of the worst is just plain stupid

[@turboshazed7370]

Sleep Token aren't even interesting enough to hate on for the purpose to be deemed as cool. Doesn't make sense to me lol

[@anap3333]

@@turboshazed7370 that was my point, they are middle of the bunch band with a regular album. Putting their album as one of the worst in this year means you haven't listened to enough music from this year or you just hate it because they were one of the breakout acts of 2023 and lots of people love them.

[@quickestscoped7603]

Royal Flush and Twisted Wizard

[@CynicalScorpio]

I was honestly kind of shocked at the number 1 spot. I don't even care about A7x, but I loved Life is But A Dream. Sure, there's no denying the goofiness, but I think it serves the album, and gives it that unhinged energy. It also reminds me of bands that don't take themselves ultra-seriously, like Ween or King Gizzard.

[@djo6648]

the ken carson placement is wild

[@dotcomgamingd5564]

not gonna lie I kinda liked that rendition of Ave Maria

[@_TheBigCabbage]

Hey brad. I love your content and I know you’ll never see this but you made my ears bleed at about 30:11. My ears actually bled from the content of this video. I hope you know what you did.

[@pumathurman]

am I missing something with Hardy? everyone has been saying it's bad but I've had people tell me that people just don't get it and I'm too scared to listen for myself

[@Numptaloid]

"the world is too short" - brad, 2024

[@villagelanding]

braaad you should totes do the best lists those vids from 2021 were so fun!!

[@justinvarieur4411]

Surprised Avenged beat Sleep Token in the “how bad can we make this album under the notion of ‘experimenting and progress’ cuz we’re running out of ideas?” Take me to Eden was truly a giant turd on top of modern metal

[@Blvckink]

feels bad ave maria worlds end girlfriend song is one of my favourite of 2023

[@bigmankam]

Idk what the chat was smoking when they heard it, it's really not that bad at all and I think it sounds apocalyptic.

[@turboshazed7370]

Sounds like a bad Beach House song.

[@bigmankam]

@@turboshazed7370 what How does it sound like a Beach House song?

[@smoke__]

will there be a todd in the shadows reaction too?

[@Phentem2]

Fantano and his son 😊

[@AiFeith]

Listens to 90 seconds from the most popular track (which is nine (9) minutes long) of a two and a half hour album and calls it trash. Makes sense...

[@tylermaddux5209]

My thoughts exactly How insanely smug and pretentious. Feels like he’s just making fun of it in bad spirit rather than trying to be fair

[@AiFeith]

@@tylermaddux5209 I'd actually respect his pretentiousness if he actually had good taste. Every time he approaches something more experimental, he has to do so from this incredibly irritating irony-pilled place, because he's grounded his entire channel and subscriber base on not being taken seriously (just look at his "music" lmao). It's cowardice. Avoiding any sort of responsibility by waving off everything as a joke. Irony is a death machine and he's been gripped by it for a long time. Only a matter of time being it eats him alive.

[@tylermaddux5209]

@@AiFeith yeesh I’d like to see your opinion on Sam Hyde then

[@AiFeith]

@@tylermaddux5209 I have no problem with Sam Hyde's use of irony. It's clearly not for me, I just don't find his newer stuff funny, but where Sam Hyde finds artistry in irony, Brad finds cowardice. Sam Hyde transforms his life into irony. He has become irony. What Brad does, to him, is child's play. I respect Sam Hyde's commitment to *irony*. Brad's? Pitiful. Both will be eaten up by the irony machine, but one will have become one with it and the other will be chewed out and thrown away.

[@tylermaddux5209]

@@AiFeith interesting. I don’t know if I agree with you or disagree with you or what but I enjoy listening to your perspective on this! You take care internet stranger

[@radicard5193]

It just hit me that Radio Song is trying so hard to be "The Hook" by Blues Traveler and failing at it in every level.

[@cerulean5881]

is bro so serious with those cans

[@holdennorman9209]

A great chaos is a top 10 album of the year

[@demi172]

are you gonna upload all of the reactions? like cdtv, todd in the shadows, etc.? or is it just a select few and the rest were just on stream

[@largeman1624]

TEXAS ROADHOUSE SLANDER WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!

[@smackheadsgyro]

i wish i could be liek bill coosby ,.,,.

[@saint-juste]

I've never heard of Royal Flush until now, but man they sound like modern day Filthy Frank/Pink guy.

[@TheGrayHeron]

A7X album goated

[@MrGetownedLP]

I'M STRONGER THAN META KNIGHT 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@FlasKamel]

Lets goooo I accidentally woke up at 1 AM and needed Brad Reacting to Fantano's Worst Albums of 2023 to make the night not boring.

[@InkAndPoet]

Believe me, Brad. "TRUCK BED" is worst on "the mockingbird & THE CROW".

[@kagopan]

I expect this video to be “Yeah that album is pretty bad…but it doesn’t have Mori/DemonDice in it, so it’s fine.”

[@Knaif]

Was Sleep Token so forgettable it missed the list? A7X at least made you feel an emotion

[@P3TER_Official23]

18:35 Wait... Brad is a really young person???

[@lepacs14]

Which side of Hardy do you like better, the mockingbird or the crow?

[@turboshazed7370]

Mockingbird 100%

[@lepacs14]

And why.

[@turboshazed7370]

​@@lepacs14cause the crow portion sounds like Kid Rock 😂

[@lepacs14]

@turboshazed7370 why do people hate kid rock?

[@turboshazed7370]

​@@lepacs14cause he is cringe. Has garbage lyrics. The same damn flow... Only the one flow. Is the embodiment of a concert that smells like unwashed balls.

[@Pac_Appl21]

*GUNSHOT AND SOUNDS OF AGONY* .... Yoooo Jack hold on play that back again? *GUNSHOT AND SOUNDS OF AGONY* .... Now watch what happens when i change the pitch and add reverb! *Great Music Starts Playing*

[@ComradeMarlow]

If you love fantano so much why don't you marry him

[@nikocayetano1805]

Jeremy riding ajr so hard. Theres nothing beautiful about his music 💀💀. Also comparing tacky millennial pop to raunchy rap is dumb.

[@turboshazed7370]

Jeremy is at least pretty chill man

[@spagheleton]

hello bradley taste in music im commenting for engagemtn

[@Exploud]

17:16 ADoseOfBuckley spotted

[@Thatsjusthewayitis]

Personally I really liked Clearface and No More Half Measures but I respect Melon’s opinion bla bla bla etc etc

[@willsobrazy]

love brad and kinda enjoy fantano, but the opium hate is so crazy like bru its never THAT bad😭😭

[@turboshazed7370]

Yeah it is

[@jaywallah5917]

Why does Brad look like Theon Greyjoy? 💀🍿

[@pants6951]

Idk bro I love the new Avenged album I feel like it's love it or hate it

[@rorysparshott4223]

"I'm breacting to"

[@boomerpatrol2838]

i saw people on twitter hyping up that destroy lonely album and i never heard anything from it until now and like, people like this? an hour and a half of then droning monotone rapping over a really shitty beat? like at least with Carti he has energy, i like his beats and production, this just sounds like what people who hate Playboi Carti think he sounds like

[@Noseflap-watching]

As a big dubstep fan of almost 15 years, glad to see COD DUBZ getting credit for making top 5 worst EDM EP of the year 😂

[@ileutur6863]

I am convinced that the only reason A7X and Sleep Token got this much traction in 2023 is because people who have never heard genre blending before just discovered them. Anyone who has actually heard other bands do it right hears the mess they actually made. Sleep Token is even passable, but A7X sounds like special ed kids impersonating a prog metal band.