 | Tracklist:
1. Galeere
2. Ein Winter auf See
3. Durch Lichtlose Tiefen
4. Helike
5. Unter toten Kapitanen
| Ranking: #141 for 2009 | |
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On 26 Lists
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| Summary: A misleading album that draws you in with peaceful ambience and then drowns you in a flood of icy riffs |
4 of 6 thought this review was well written
At a first glance, Geist appears to be some sort of blatant Wolves in the Throne Room clone; right down to the pretentious song lengths and dark cover artwork. In fact, the introduction to Galeere sounds almost identical to that of the WITTR track “Behold the Vastness and Sorrow” off of their Two Hunters album. However, quite early on, Geist makes it quite clear that they’ve got their own personal agenda in mind. After about a minute or so of dapping in WITTR-esque ambience, Geist cuts the crap and leaps straight into the maelstrom.
From start to stop, Galeere is one leviathan of an album. Instead of expanding on the gloomy shoe gaze style black metal that they displayed early on, Geist opens up the sky and brings down a torrent of hard hitting riffs. Geist strays away from the blast-beat/tremolo picking formula and explores their options, dropping juicy (and ferociously heavy) riffs into the fray along with hard-hitting drum patterns. This combination gives the album a much more ‘metal’ feel by creating tight grooves and rhythm patterns as opposed to the rapid fire assault aural assault that black metal usually is. Several sections throughout the album are 100 percent head-bang-able.
Unlike most black metal albums, the sound quality of Galeere is crystal clear. The vocals (which are all in German, unfortunate for some) are startlingly clear and discernible without over-powering any of the other instruments. Every single note and chord on the guitar floats seamlessly into your ear, clear and striking. The ambient sections are possibly the greatest example of this, audible guitar duality blending perfectly with the sound of crashing waves to create soothing atmospheres filled with grim emotion.
Every piece of the album is perfectly proportioned and well placed, and throughout the albums fifty or so minutes it does not drag at all. However, this album is not for those “black metal” fans who have only ever listened to Ulver, Dissection, and Emperor. I strongly recommend this album to anyone who appreciates ambient or progressive black metal such as Panopticon, Skullreader and of course Wolves in the Throne Room.
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Been a while since I reviewed anything and I wanted to get back into it. Sorry Crysis if you were gonna do this one. Tell me what you think
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Sounds good and it's a good review too. I'm adding this to my list.
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this is already on my rec list, have to speed up my turnover rate so i can get to this...
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--;dr
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what does that even mean?
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You didnt appear to mention of of the aquatic sound samples or overall dark misty atmosphere that of one of a ship doomed to oblivion. Otherwide good effort. Still need to finish my review for thsi however.
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I mentioned the ocean ambience! I just don't know anything about the concept.
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Well I mean the synthesizers on this record, while understated certaintly add much of the texture to this. On another note, not really, artwork is still completely amazing. That ship is going down.
Skullreader? You mean Sun Of The Blind?
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
I barely noticed the keyboards. I was too busy moshing to the amazing guitar riffs. So wait you guys made the ghost ship stuff up?
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--;dr
I think he meant he didn't read.
Half of tl;dr --> too long, didn't read.
(which are all in German, unfortunate for some)
This sold it for me. Gonna get this later today.
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ok dude, you're going to have to pick one or the other someday
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Great review, I was procrastinating about writing a review for this, but you gave as much justice, if not more, than I was hoping for.
Fantastic album.
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No I didnt make up the ghost ship? Look at the cover, listen to the pirateship organ melody which I forget which song specifically, look at their pirate rocker inspired corpsepaint. This is totally ocean metal bro.
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Agree with Balls
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Brocean metal.
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good review, great album
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i took one glance at the album art. its like i can smell pretentiousness radiating from this album.
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nice review.However, quite early on Geist makes it quite clear that they’ve got their own personal agenda in mind. add a comma after on. It's a small nitpick but it would really imrpove the flow of that sentence. Otherwise solid job.
I am not going to check this out though, too much stuff, tool ittle time, and i do not need any more.
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i took one glance at the album art. its like i can smell pretentiousness radiating from this album.
likewise to your avatar and yourself
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