Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος
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DDDeftoneDDD
April 29th 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I did tripple spun it today.

Its awesome and angrier than III

MiloRuggles
Staff Reviewer
April 29th 2021


3029 Comments

Album Rating: 3.9

Ty elynna, hope you enjoi

DDD! It's been a minute. Sorry, slow as always, but glad to see you're digging this so hard

Egarran
April 29th 2021


34054 Comments


So much to digest in here

MiloRuggles
Staff Reviewer
April 29th 2021


3029 Comments

Album Rating: 3.9

For srs, some of those chord progressions is looooong

Egarran
April 29th 2021


34054 Comments


True, and I'm fresh from Kauan's Ice Fleet - the entire album is like two simple melodies.

DDDeftoneDDD
April 29th 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Kauan is cool. Hard not to 4 that one.

DDDeftoneDDD
April 29th 2021


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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

"Yet, I think this decision actually works to the album's benefit. Skip it if you want, no-one's judging, but after the violent turbulence of the album, I'm quite grateful for this epilogue;"



No-one s judging, or even watching. Brilliant rev all along.

Elynna
April 30th 2021


1438 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Solid record, but I'm with the majority here. It would've been much better without the closing track.

DDDeftoneDDD
April 30th 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I think it shouldn't have that much weight on the final rate honestly. It's as if, back in the days, you dislike an album because of its hidden track.



I guess if we focus our view on that aspect, maybe the other tracks did not meant as much either.

Elynna
April 30th 2021


1438 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

True that. It's hard to ignore though because of its near 20 minute length, and last impressions are, well, more lasting. Having said that the first half of the album is absolutely stellar, and it's indeed, like you said, preferable to focus on the strong points of the album.

DDDeftoneDDD
April 30th 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Its 20 minutes of decompression. I love how Milo say "no-one's judging" in his rev lolol

Evreaia
April 30th 2021


5405 Comments


I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Like, it aint bad. But it aint the follow up to III I was hoping for either. Seems like a totally different project

MiloRuggles
Staff Reviewer
April 30th 2021


3029 Comments

Album Rating: 3.9

Yeah, spectral lore is quite distinctly fractured into two identities at this point. IV next year my g

DDDeftoneDDD
April 30th 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

"Seems like a totally different project" well, it is



I like it better, but the other atmo, more peaceful, epic concept is legit too. Read the rev Evreaia. Or their second paragraph on their bandcamp - here:



"If SPECTRAL LORE themselves originally described “Sentinel” as epic and transcendental black metal, music to inspire the warrior spirit and through it achieve spiritual transcendence, “Ετερόφωτος” walks similar emotional paths with greater maturity and awareness, and can be seen as a comment on its predecessor's youthful enthusiasm, a kind of re-alignment that does not point towards a peaceful settlement, but on the strengthening of the need for rebellious, promethean praxis. In this respect, it is both a black metal and an anti-black metal record at the same time. Graced with a mystical and thoughtful cover painting by the Italian master Alessandro “Sicioldr” Bianchi, “Ετερόφωτος” is SPECTRAL LORE's call for a revolt through radical self-examination; it desires to fight back with the past while claiming what has been rightfully ours in the first place. And to finally see beyond the Self: to where our light comes from. "

Evreaia
April 30th 2021


5405 Comments


oh I thought this was supposed to be IV

nvm Ill wait a year for my next best thing

DDDeftoneDDD
April 30th 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Ατραπός

The Golden Armor

he Sorcerer Above The Clouds

Apocalypse





amaaaazing tracks



bloc
April 30th 2021


70174 Comments


That album art is truly ass

DDDeftoneDDD
May 1st 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Shit...it is...I thought it was cool from a closer look, then setted it on my cellphone's background...and it sucks x/

DDDeftoneDDD
May 1st 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I mean those feathers are not even attached to the dude s head. Feels like a mohawk (the war theme etc) but they re just feathers lost somewhere. The model seems digitally unfinished and I have some questions about him being in a hole. Really stupid.

Someone please review this cover.

DDDeftoneDDD
May 1st 2021


22325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

And yes it is a rectangle frame over a square



I mean, the dude is credited on their bandcamp. What went on there? Only for us to imagine..



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