Album Rating: 4.5

Yeh it's sad and beautiful at the same time

Album Rating: 4.0

Anyone know anything about the artwork?

Album Rating: 4.5

It's all white, wdym

Album Rating: 4.0

just curious if there's a story or symbolism or anything behind it, and if so if anyone here knows about it

Album Rating: 5.0

nah just a commissioned work from the artist of the two records prior

Album Rating: 4.5

Which is fine really, the music speaks for itself

Album Rating: 4.5

Always liked the minimalistic artwork. This band has always interesting cover art.

Album Rating: 4.0

Missed your reply thanks wolfe



This one has been growing off of me ever so slowly. I’m probably the only one, but anyone else find the universe they build here to be a bit dull? The older I get, the more this feels like undeveloped angst, with Somewhere Along the Highway shining conceptually by comparison

Album Rating: 5.0

idk to me there’s relief hidden behind the anguish here

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah i share the same feeling octagon. To me it's like they want the sound to be that massive for the sake of being impressive, at least partly - not totally cause there's obvious compositional qualities and some kind of beauty in the sound, like it's so determined to reach something pure that its vanity becomes beautiful. The cover is quite clear on it to me : they treat the sound like you would treat a diamond, trying to reach its purest form - pure energy here - still there's impurity in it even if you can't see it. There's a window to get in the flux but it's very tight. In SATH the picture get wider cause they succeed in injecting poetry in the sound, giving the feeling that it sounds like a storm, an earthquake or something.

Album Rating: 4.0

Beautifully written, agreed!

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah, this is still the GOAT of post-metal. The spacing, the variety, the production. Beautiful. Perfectly balanced.

Album Rating: 4.2

checking this one's pulse

Album Rating: 4.2

"The older I get, the more this feels like undeveloped angst"

gonna agree on this heavily re. the entirety of Leave Me Here and the opening third or so of Adrift (which is otherwise a highlight). the opening pair are the best two here, i think, and also the most satisfyingly developed - Echoes' atmospheric opening and ominous outro bassline are obvs legendary, but the way Vague Illusions gives way to something peaceful midway is maybe my favourite moment here. the build it ends up on doesn't feel angsty or overbearingly cathartic to me, if anything it's unusually cleansing for an overtly Heavy Moment. closer has some nice tumultuous push/pull to it, but yeah overall this one is definitely tied down with linear acts of catharsis for its own good. gonna drop a lil bit

Album Rating: 5.0

Yea I don’t necessarily agree. Last thing this band feels like to me after Beyond is angsty

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

This album is perfection.

Album Rating: 4.5

"Yea I don’t necessarily agree. Last thing this band feels like to me after Beyond is angsty"



Agreed, to me this is one of their most mellow albums

Album Rating: 4.2

I don't think this record as a whole is angsty tbh - top of my head, the only three CoL songs I'd put with that word are Leave Me Here, Adrift and Dim, and I love the latter two. There's something maudlin about those that scans as angst given their heaviness. Wouldn't call the Beyond angsty either - immature maybe (though I'd save that for the debut)

Album Rating: 5.0

I don’t know about Dim but I can see about the other two, in the sense that it’s like an existential angst cuz that’s what I get from this album, full on existential themes

Album Rating: 3.5

Magnificence to sée, impossible to live