Album Rating: 3.5

Great choice dude, love the choral chants during the chorus.



Love the review too, have a pos.

Album Rating: 4.0

Why thank you, kind sir

Album Rating: 4.0

this might be the best-sounding production job I've heard from Jens Bogren.

Album Rating: 4.0

It's some of the best production I've heard in a long time.

Album Rating: 3.5

Our Church Below The Sea and Martyr are super easy jams. fun little album

Album Rating: 4.0

Dark Arts rules

Album Rating: 3.5

One of the best tracks here

Album Rating: 4.0

Indeed, probably has the best clean singing section on the album.

Album Rating: 4.0

Just checked out the martyr of truth bonus track, it sounds like some sort of climax music for a movie without the vocal sections.

Titan was a huge let down for me.

Hope I like this.

I'm going to ask what is probably a very, very dumb question-
Is this anything like "Mystic Places of Dawn"?

Album Rating: 2.5

Band is soooo overrated.

Hm maybe you're overrated Hawks >:[
Yeah idk I don't listen to this band lol.

Album Rating: 4.0

Your mom's overrated Hawks!

Album Rating: 4.0

Dede this is not much like mystic places of dawn, it's got a lot more emphasis on symphonies. Goddamn love that album though.

Album Rating: 3.5

Band is soooo overrated.





you like dimmu borgir Hawks bro

Album Rating: 5.0

Good review.



Agree with the overall score. Two things I felt differently about:

* Titan grew on me. Enourmously. Initially, the record sounds more 'flat' than The Great Mass, but once I got over the more straightforward approach I started to realize the album absolutely slays. The unsettling groove on the title track, the ferocious galloping in Order of Dracul, the epic bridge on Burn and the melodies on Prometheus - to me, the album is filled with these kinds of highlights that make it stand out.



* I don't feel like Septicflesh' formula is growing stale, or will anytime soon. I do feel like they've reinvigorated themselves 'couple of times: Sumerian Daemons, which was a departure in quality and execution from their earlier records - then The Great Mass, introducing orchestral arrangements on a level of professionalism not achieved before. To me, Titan and now Codex Omega marry their revolutionized usage of the orchestra in their music with the stellar songwriting of Communion (the Great Mass wandered here and there, more arrangements than well-rounded songs if you will). Since there are so few bands that can sucesfully pull off symphonic extreme metal with sounding cheesy (be it black or death), I think many albums from now they'll still sound absolutely fresh.

Furthermore, here and there the classical music is strongly different in style than on previous albums. Potrait of a Headless Man, in example, sports clear Eastern influences - that work really, really well with their sound.

Album Rating: 4.0

I appreciate your second point, but tbh I dunno if I'll ever appreciate titan like you do. Still, it's good to hear someone likes it that much.

Album Rating: 3.5

Agreed about Titan being a grower but it still is their weakest post-reunion album imo

Album Rating: 4.0

what you guys talking about, Titan is maybe a bit off, but he's a great user.