Album Rating: 5.0
Agalloch has always been hard to place into one subgenre. Like The Mantle had a lot of prog, a lot of post rock, neo folk, black metal, I think post metal is as good as anything else. I remember some guys I used to talk to back in those days called it "gray metal." I've generally called them atmospheric black metal but that's not completely accurate. Post black, whatever.
I don't know what I'd call Astronoid.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I've seen them tagged as Blackgaze (shrugs)
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Album Rating: 4.5
i hope to sort out this fucking blockage in my ear soon because i really want to hear the record i've been hyped for since last year in its proper glory.
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Album Rating: 5.0
"I've seen them tagged as Blackgaze (shrugs)"
Astronoid? I can see it. There's some black metal in their sound and a lot of shoegaze. Feels kind of reductive though.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Astronoid is a band that exists. That’s it
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stargazer was good idk
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah I like them... in small doses.
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yea
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Can’t wait to check this one out!
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Good stuff, but I can't help feeling it leaves something to be desired when compared with the doomiest side of Chelsea Wolfe.
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@Voivod Just gonna repost my comment cause it got blown by in a haze of other discussion and I feel like I'm in your camp with the Chelsea Wolfe comparison. I do believe King Woman is making the music they (or she?) wants to make, but the clean production is highlighting some short comings when compared with grungy doom-light contemporaries (ERR+Thou, Wolfe, SubRosa, etc.)
Feels like some concessions might’ve been made for broader appeal, but if this turns a couple normies towards doom then I’m all for it.
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Album Rating: 3.5
good shit right here but i'm not sure it really stands out from the pack (chelsea wolfe etc.)
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Pack, wolfe, ah!
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
"Astronoid is a band that exists" I can confirm this.
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Album Rating: 5.0
i like this more than any of the chelsea wolfe albums but ERR? no way.
definitely like this more than subrosa and big|brave
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Album Rating: 5.0
although those new the body / big|brave tracks are somethin else
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Album Rating: 4.2
well this last page is off kilter
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Album Rating: 4.5
"although those new the body / big|brave tracks are somethin else"
OH? Are they doing stuff together??
I like this one more than the ERR / Thou album but not way more, just a tiny little bit. About Wolfe, I guess it depends on the album too but I feel Wolfe has a creepier, more gothic, more... vampiric vibe than King Woman so I didn't think about comparing them. This really reminds me of Life of Agony circa River Runs Red for some reason.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Every song on this is great holy fuck.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah I love Chelsea but I don't really think King Woman is that similar.
This is more straightforward sludge/doom, and like Dewinged said Chelsea's brand of metal is more gothic.
I also can't see Chelsea doing some of the harsher vocals you hear on this record.
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