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Review Summary: Sex Sells Before a night of ravenous sex, the mood can usually be set by a candle-light dinner, flowers, and a well prepared dinner. Likewise, a frenzied-chaotic death metal fest, coupled with brooding "doom-like" passages, can correspond with a dimensionally "point" driven album; point being – to drive anger, depression, sorrow, and pain, deeply into the souls of its listeners. One may ask, "Why would I subject myself to such torture?", because the feel of riffs [including drums] and vocals are subjectively comparable to sex.
Now let me entertain you for a moment. According to "Oath of the Abyss" [O.O.T.A.], the production is likened to the material being, made up of succulent riffs, drums, and vocals. Now let's say these components really want you. How can you resist free meat? Now I said "free", not "fresh" meat. Unfortunately this chick has been around the block a few times, and didn't save her "all" for you. But like Hawks would say, "Poon is Poon".
First of all the production style found within "O.O.T.A." is extremely desired amongst long-time death metal fans. You'll hear listeners say certain albums have good song-writing but the drum snare/cymbal is just overpowering everything they find enjoyable. Or, some may say the guitar tone is unsettling on their ears. "O.O.T.A." is subject to none of these flaws. The sludgy/fuzzy guitar tones and equalized drum ranks/levels merry well, allowing for grandiose compositional techniques, native to death metal, to shine through with agreeable merits.
The riffs and drums balance each other out; almost never competing for the spotlight, they work "hand over hand", slowly releasing the joy out of you, found in various tracks such as "Consummating Crypts of Eternity". They'll often play with you, choosing to go really fast or oozingly slow. Either way, they know how to transition tempos ever so slightly, as well as forcing themselves on you; inducing a sweat fest.
The vocals represented by the instrument called the "mouth", is capable and useful for many things; in this instance they serve as the "boat tipper". You've already sailed to a fiery abyss of emotions, now a tempestuous guttural wind storm forces you to abandon ship; subjecting your soul to a realm of mental disparity. Tracks like "The Chasm" and "Penitence" reaffirm the degradation.
Taken at face value, "O.O.T.A." can seem like a difficult "session" to handle. But I can assure you this chick has plenty of experience to get the job done. I guarantee when you're finished with her you'll wanna keep comin' back for more. Just make sure you explore her every crevice to see what she's capable of.
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haha sweet nice review
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really enjoyed this
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pos
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Glad you liked it, whether you were referring to the review or album.
both
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Perfect review for this.
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entirely mediocre
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Lol great review, great album.
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not seeing it man
take incantation, and strip all the cool moments out of it, and you are left with this
riffs are forgettable, solos are laughable, can barely hear bass drum
all around forgettable. kicks up a little dust in a couple of spots, thats it.
an album has to be good enough on first listen for me to even want to fuck with it again, and this isn't.
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yeah man idk what you did but you really turned around the way you wrote really fast, this is like miles and miles better than your first review
not too sure what you did but keep doing it hahaha
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Valerius reminds me of a little bit less negative version of Fade.
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yeah agree with what hyperion said, you're writing has improved by leaps and bounds... great work here
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here we go with "atmosphere" again.
atmosphere is no substitute for songwriting, riffs, leads, drumming, vocals, production, or anything else really. in fact id say atmosphere is defined by those. i can name plenty of incantation albums or clones with the same "atmosphere" but better.
"atmosphere" does not trump. never has never will. its an illusion. bring the riffs, bring the drumming, bring the songwriting, bring the vocals, bring the leads, etc, and you will have atmosphere. not the other way around.
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im not negative im honest. when an album is good i say its good. when its mediocre i say its mediocre. when its bad i say its bad. all according to my opinion and taste. take it with a grain of salt.
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you know what i'm saying? atmosphere isn't some tangible quality you can inject into a record. i've never been in a band, but i can assume noone has sat around and said, "you know guys these riffs are cool, and that solo is awesome, but what we really need is *grasps the air with his hand, then opens his hand and blows the air*... some atmosphere".
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enjoyed this album, it's quite a bit different from their demo tape. took me a while to get into it though.
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where do u get the idea i don't like doom or "atmospheric" black metal?
and you are right, comparisons are pointless. the simple fact is this album is mediocre to me, comparisons aside
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you must have missed the hvis lyset tar oss thread, and the last tape before doomsday thread.
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'You mean different in song quality or production quality? Song-wise the demo has only one song that is not on this LP. Production wise, from what I remember, was more crusty/sludgy.'
the overall sound
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i enjoy a good bit of doom and atmospheric black metal
the problem is many bands fuck it up.
doom metal with some lady singing opera for 8 minutes right off the rip, fuck me, no
some atmospheric black metal that sounds like it was recorded with a walkman in the next room, then rerecorded 100 times to give it that "kvlt, and trve, and grimm, and ebil" "atmosphere", k whatever, you are trying too hard, fuck no.
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this is one of those albums you are going to run into on your journey through doom, and this is why i don't care for a lot of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cbAOraF7eQ
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