Album Rating: 5.0
goodenuff, stop trying to force people to live in your antiquated vision of the past. We've all heard Anathema and My Dying Bride. Mourning Beloveth may share some characteristics with those bands, but that doesn't matter at all. That's like suggesting that every metal release after Black Sabbath was a boring imitation. You should listen to albums and judge them by their merits, not by your expectations. You've forgotten how to listen to music with an open mind. It's actually sad that you've given this a 2.5. I feel bad that you've become so jaded and afraid of progress. Your life must be very depressing.
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Album Rating: 2.5
lol you call this progress? i feel sorry for your lack of good ear valves. over 10 years after the 'quality' sound purveyors have long sailed on and their copycats still trying to eh... progress? its having an open mind that those bands progressed after writing the rules. Move on, do your own thing, don't imitate, innovate. A track like 'Sleepless' by Anathema or Sear Me by MDB etc is something these gombeens wouldn't even know how to approach to write, in fact Sleepless has closer ties to The Cure than Black Sabbath, course they wouldn't hear that. They've only got signed this millennia, and are still boring repetitive typical doom bringing nothing new to the table, just pretentiousness, a handicap drummer and just about competent writing skills to wing it and thats about all this band are doing, winging it. If they were any good Peaceville would have signed them long ago, but you see, you just don't get it, they don't want a pretentious doom band decades too late who spent most of the 90s learning how to copy their own artists, they like me can see through the bullshit.
They certainly have sympathy from not so prestigious dodgy online reviewers from the underground, whose writings have so many holes that it's obvious they're trying to wing it for them, the underground after all can be overly sympathetic which is misleading, support is one thing, dishonesty is another.
perfect eg. http://moltenmagazine.com/2013/02/review-mourning-beloveth-formless/
last paragraph "The aforementioned ‘Transmissions’ then is a tormenting and excruciating track characterised by spoken word passages and ethereal acoustic guitars that are even Anathema-esque, Eternity-era to be specific."
lol now, of course i had to take myself off and listen to that on youtube. This dude seriously needs his ears cleaned. acoustic guitars? (sounds electro semi) but Eternity??? eh? lol to be specific no less? not a very trusting review, dodge. I think this band MB would probably be shocked by that comment themselves, Eternity after all wouldn't exactly be on their radar to imitate. There is absolutely NO Eternity-era sound in here. In fact thats also an insult!
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