"Precious few times in music history does a band encapsulate the highest musical ideals and still have commercial viability. Metal bands don’t often concern themselves with this since being underground and true is metal’s carte blanche. However, sometimes a band comes along that unintentionally straddles this line, doesn’t do it in a contrived way and succeeds. Return To Earth combines artistry, immense musical talent, heaviness and a wide range of styles. The band manages to walk in many worlds at the same time -- and it works.” — Metal Army
”If you take an early Nine Inch Nails starting point, throw in elements of Mike Patton’s versatility, Faith No More’s genre mashups, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s punk vibrancy, System of a Down’s anthemic qualities, and then coat everything in a whole raft of industrial enhancements, (think Gravity Kills, Filter, Pitchshifter, Aborym, The Body, Uniform), then you’ll have a very rough idea of the Return to Earth sound.” — Wonderbox Metal
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Octavius (2024)
A dark and retrowave-inspired 4-song release created mostly using synthesizers and ambient electronic sounds, eschewing acoustic instruments almost entirely in favor of zeroes and ones and synth wave sensibilities.
RIYL: Depeche Mode, Gunship, Peter Gabriel -
Oblivion (2022)
The mind-bending third album from Return To Earth is the darkest and most symphonic of the band’s career, combining heavy alt-rock riffage with elements of industrial and tech-metal and a cinematic scope.
RIYL: Tool, Metallica, Hans Zimmer, Ludwig Goransson -
Big Ideas (2021)
Return To Earth’s first new release in over a decade features 3 new songs that hit the reset button on the band’s style and sound, and acts as an appropriate trailer for RTE’s forthcoming third album, Oblivion.
RIYL: Dillinger Escape Plan, 3TEETH, Chmcl Str8jkt -
Automata (2010)
The band’s second album — and first for Metal Blade Records — is decidedly heavier than its predecessor. Automata is the sound of ingenuity run amok, with the resulting chaos and inconsistencies of its musical smorgasbord only contributing to its entertainment value — no strings attached.
RIYL: Ministry, Fear Factory, Meshugguh -
Captains of Industry (2007)
The debut album from the New Jersey hard rock trio consisting of drummer Chris Pennie, guitarist Brett Aveni, and vocalist Ron Scalzo — highlighted by Pennie’s influential backbeat, catchy hooks, and layered vocal harmonies.
RIYL: Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More