Album Rating: 4.5

Also it's a 5 boys!!

Album Rating: 5.0

Awesome! So happy my review could get at least one person to check this album

Album Rating: 5.0

The thing with the interviews Deathspell Omega doesn't make clear is who is doing the interview. The one where he refers to 'niggers and gypsies' is extremely crude, a lot of people think it is likely Mikko who gave that interview. I do agree on it being more misanthropic than anything though.



If you look at Deathspell's most recent interviews they are extremely well written and very interesting, seems like a MUCH different person because it probably is. I would highly recommend reading their interview released around the same time as Furnaces going into that album as it really adds a lot of context to the music.

Album Rating: 4.5

@gyro I think there are enough pejoratives in that quote alone to safely conclude that hes a bit racist. Dont think not liking people in general precludes you from prejudice.

Album Rating: 4.5

Perhaps he is both misanthropic and racist

Album Rating: 4.5

True it could be a combination of the 2, just strikes me a bit more as equal opportunity hatred. Like I'm sure the guy probably has a derogatory word for every race. Naming any 1 or 2 when discussing groups you dislike is pretty damning tho I can't lie.



Didn't think you'd dig this potsy

Album Rating: 4.5

Funeral: I'll check out that interview and some others, I'm curious now



I 5d this thing pretty fast considering I had it as a 3 just the other day but after 7 spins I can confidently say this is one of the best metal albums I've heard in recent years

Album Rating: 4.5

Reasonable 5

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, saying shit like "gypsies and street niggers" makes you pretty fucking racist. Not up for debate. Mikko's a turd but I still love the band. The Bardo interview is great reading. I was like a kid in a candy store reading all the musical influences they listed off, most of which I loved already. Imagine a black metal band looking to John Coltrane for inspiration. Lol Legendary.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah that's pretty fucking cool

Album Rating: 5.0

Yea I've heard Ascension particularly was a big inspiration for their work.

Album Rating: 5.0

It wouldn't be surprising at all given a lot of the truly brutal, polytonal sort of harmony that shows up in most of their songs. Coltrane was a master at that.

Album Rating: 4.5

i gave synarchy a 2.5/5 after 1 listen too. i wonder if that's also a 5 lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Easy 4.5 for me. It's still pretty textbook DsO but more militaristic in rhythm and more darkly melodic with the harmony than straight up dissonant. Ad Arma, 1523, Standing on the Work of Slaves, and Renagade Ashes are all 10/10 songs.

Album Rating: 5.0

lmao My bad, thought you wrote Furnaces. Synarchy is amazing in terms of sheer brutality. Still a 4.5. Like the t/t makes me feeling like the world is being swallowed up in an intense blackness.

Album Rating: 4.5

furnaces is a hard 4.5 from me, listening to it again now. i'm starting to think paracletus is a once in a lifetime album though. i've listened to furnaces like 10 times now and i love it but this is on a whole other level i think

Imagine being a nazi while also citing John Coltrane as an influence, some gnarly cognitive dissonance going on there lmao

Album Rating: 4.5

still not convinced that he's a nazi. more misanthropic than anything imo

Dude some of that shit in Clandestine Blaze is pretty unambiguous, we can argue all day over whether in his heart of hearts Mikko is just an edgelord or a genuinely hateful person but at a certain point the difference stops mattering, y'know?

Album Rating: 5.0

BRUHHH. Mikko didn't even do that interview. Can we stop acting like he's a creative force in the band??