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| 4.0 excellent | ManiacBlasphemer | October 12th 19 |
It is just puzzling how people can shower the debut, which is clearly inferior to this record with better ratings than this one. The debut album was like a warm-up phase for this band compared to the material on The Immortal Wars. This is how symphonic metal should be played. With a decent degree of variation, with focus on war-like melody (helped tremendously by the well-picked symphonic samples) a great guitar tone and a predilection to writing impressive slow, but groovy tunes. Don't get me wrong, the band sometimes ups the tempo and does it will like on track 5, however the best parts are the more slow, mid-paced one as displayed on the opening track. The production is just phenomenal, which helps elevating even the more inferior 3 last tracks. Highlights: 1-5, the rest is average to passable. The album works better as a whole rather than separated on individual tracks.
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| 3.5 great | Toondude | February 26th 17 |
another well-composed melodic death metal record that showcases some really awesome talent, despite its short length and somewhat unoriginal sound.
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| 3.0 good | zaruyache | November 25th 17 |
Ex Deo as a band is like if the Kataklysm bros finally ponied up and just admitted they wanted to be a melodeath band the whole time. "The Immortal Wars" features all the current members of Kataklysm, their trademark thick, catchy riffs and Iacono's easily identifiable growls combined with a heaping helping of Gothenburg riffs and not overpowering symphonic instrumentation. Ex Deo seem to balance their melodic and brutal riffing styles about as well as Edge of Sanity, and use their symphonics as a supplemental source of additional melody, rather than as a focal point (unlike Septicflesh). This is solid, heavy melodeath, and probably the kind of stuff Kataklysm should've been writing all along (since they're better at it). 3.3/5
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| 3.2 good | Trey STAFF | February 28th 17 |
Solid, if a bit unremarkable, symphonic/melodic death metal. Kind of cheesy in places, too.
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| 3.0 good | Jeejee | August 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | em17ah | June 2nd 17 |
| 3.0 good | Elynna | March 17th 17 |
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