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calling this the best album of the year is the most absurd thing i've ever read because this is the very definition of mundane



it's like they got every boring aspect of kold and made a double album out of it

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Also calling this generic is laughably retarded. This is the most unique album of the year.

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DarkNoctus you drooling imbecile this album sounds nothing like Kold, an album that sounded exactly like a direct imitation of Primordial. Do you have the slightest experience listening to music? God you're a waste.

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gong

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I think DarkNoctus has the absolute worst taste of anyone I've seen on a niche music site like this. He's an absolute embarrassment. 100% tone deaf, 100% incapable of actually describing music or making valid comparisons, it's fucking hilarious.

Lol. Trolls are running out of ideas these days.

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Troll? DarkNoctus and I have history in my brief dalliance with this website. Not trolling at all. I think every opinion he vomits out is farcical and laughable. Like when he called Old Silver Key a mixture of black metal and post rock. That's absurd. It's neither. It has zero elements of post rock and almost zero elements of black metal. He is just incapable of accurately describing music, as I said.

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It has zero elements of post rock

and almost zero elements of black metal

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You just used the word "structure" in relation to post rock? Post rock is DEFINED by a lack of structure. Post rock means "after" rock and it means a deconstruction of rock music from pop based guitar music into soundscape based guitar music. You have not even the slightest idea what post rock is. Builds are not even remotely an element inclusive to post rock or post music as a whole. If that was the case, trance music would be the most meta of post music. Post electronica. How absurd. Clean guitar melodies is now a defining element of post rock?



Post rock is primarily instrumental music stripped down to a minimalistic level of ambiance. It is not pop based guitar music. Old Silver Key is the absolute OPPOSITE of post rock. They are firmly entrenched in rock mythos, they are obviously recreating a familiar strand of music and nothing they do in any way, shape, or form is "post" anything.



How ignorant can you be?



Also, the first blastbeat was in a 60s prog rock song. Blastbeats are not even remotely a defining element of black metal. THE defining element of black metal is evil. If it is not evil, if it is not dark in theme, if it is not about the diabolical then it is NOT black metal. There's a reason the Christian bands that mimicked black metal did not call themselves black metal. The name black metal itself is a description of the thematic content contained within.



And the guitars in Old Silver Key are very warm, peaceful and inviting. They aren't "cold" or "overdriven."



You're absurd.

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yeah it's "defined" as lack of structure but the structures that happen in 80% of all post-rock songs are so easy to notice. you're far too caught up in black and white definitions that "blastbeats aren't black metal" despite being a very defining aspect, as well as overdriven guitars that you don't even seem to be able to decipher obvious aspects of the genre. i go by what it sounds like, not what wikipedia says.

If it is not evil, if it is not dark in theme, if it is not about the diabolical then it is NOT black metal.

And the guitars in Old Silver Key are very warm, peaceful and inviting. They aren't "cold" or "overdriven."

Not this guy again...

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i think he just needs a big hug and a mince pie :]



also come now, the claim that post-rock doesn't have structure is absolutely laughable [:

You just used the word "structure" in relation to post rock? Post rock is DEFINED by a lack of structure

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he gets so lost in his pretentious "definitions" that he forgets to actually listen :]

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Deafheaven is NOT black metal.



Post rock is not built upon buildups and crescendos. Listen to some post rock releases like anything by Rachel's and tell me it's based on buildups and crescendos, post rock is built upon soundscapes and ambience.

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one band doesn't adhere to those structures hence all post-rock isn't built on buildups and crescendos, guys! honest! :]



also come now, i may not like deafheaven but it definitely is black metal.

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godspeed, the most famous post rock band had no song structure. there's another example for you. a lot of bands that people call post rock such as Russian Circles are more accurately called instrumental technical prog.



and deafheaven doesn't even sound like black metal. just because a song has frantic percussion, screamed vocals and play higher notes doesn't mean it is black metal. if that was the case, screamo would be a subgenre of black metal. absurd. you are musically illiterate.



btw, not surprised that you don't like deafheaven. you don't like anything good.

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And here's a review that explains why deafheaven isn't black metal:



http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Deafheaven/Roads_to_Judah/297782/



The top review. It's absolutely spot on.

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godspeed, the most famous post rock band had no song structure.

Lol @ this guy saying Deafheaven isn't black metal.