Black Monolith Passenger
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Bergtatt
April 26th 2014


73 Comments


It's as if Deafheaven's former touring guitarist woke up one day and thought to himself, "I wonder what it'd sound like if those guys played punk?"

Except this is SO MUCH BETTER than Deafheaven.

zaruyache
April 26th 2014


27392 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

One of the main reasons I wrote this was to try to give the non-Sunbather fanatics a decent alternative, so yah :3

Diamondize
April 27th 2014


1367 Comments


Definitely better than Deafheaven by a mile.

Deathconscious
April 28th 2014


27348 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

well fuck, i gave it a chance but i cant get into it. its just not very cohesive.

FrancieBrady
May 6th 2014


17 Comments


Not a bad first review. The album title is actually Passenger, though. Also, the preposition rule is archaic and obsolete.

zaruyache
May 6th 2014


27392 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

You're archaic and obsolete!



Edited the review to reflect the actual title of the record. Thanks! I don't know how I messed that up.

Confucius
May 7th 2014


505 Comments


Overrated

Confucius
May 8th 2014


505 Comments


Still great though

Artuma
May 11th 2014


32769 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

aoty so far

zaruyache
May 11th 2014


27392 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

1. Swans

2. The Great Old Ones

3. this album

Evreaia
May 17th 2014


5405 Comments


This sounds really great from what i've heard so far.

adr
May 17th 2014


12097 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

yea this is awesome

osmark86
May 19th 2014


11387 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

digging this thus far. nice review zar.

Evreaia
May 19th 2014


5405 Comments


very, very good album. great diversity (especially the inclusion of those more punky tracks), mood changes (that final song), sweet solos, etc...

Really liking, this. Best songs are the opener and closer.

Also, the album art is fabulous!

osmark86
May 19th 2014


11387 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I thought the penultimate tune was pretty ballin as well. will defo give this another go.

zaruyache
May 19th 2014


27392 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

well-done d-beats can make black metal just so fun to listen to.

Bergtatt
May 20th 2014


73 Comments


"it was a fun, albeit short, appetizer of what the band was capable"

That doesn't really make sense though dude, sorry! you haven;t reversed the structure in the way you think you have... it says, it is an appetiser consisting of what the band are capable... (??)

Capable is an adjective, it needs to describe something.

I'd add "of doing", at the end. No preposition. The thing is the "of" in that sentence makes what follows a descriptor of "appetiser"... you need to work the phrase so it doesn't end ON the proposition, not just cut the whole object of description out - you're just left with an incomplete sentence fragment then!

Think about what you mean.

Is it an appetiser made/consisting OF what they are capable of doing/producing/creating?

an appetiser that shows what they are capable of doing?

an appetiser, which shows what they are capable of doing?
(two separate but linked points; i.e., the appetiser shows what they are doing but that is not its sole "function")

IF you DO want to "reverse" the sentence structure to look smart, you could go with: "appetiser showing that of which the band are capable", or "appetiser hinting at doings of which the band are capable", or something equally pretentious. That just makes it read awkwardly though, and doesn't really fit with the flow/style of the rest of the review.

Bergtatt
May 20th 2014


73 Comments


Just trying to help/clear things up, I didn't mean to be a dick (sorry)! We all want to be better
writers, right? and we all do silly things sometimes, like starting sentences with conjunctions.

Edit: and double posting, smooth.

zaruyache
May 20th 2014


27392 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

You know what? Forget prepositions. I nuked that sentence outside orbit and then rebuilt it in front of the ground inside. Glad I finally got that cleared beneath.

Evreaia
May 22nd 2014


5405 Comments


Sooooooo, I have been jamming this nearly non stop for the past few days, amazing fins Zaruyache!



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