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| 4.0 excellent | Dmax28 | February 27th 16 |
It's a cool melodic death metal album and a lot of fun to listen to. "Foundation", r"Majesty rand Silence" and "Frontiers" are welcomed as some more fantastic tracks from this band. The repic feel and cohesive story of the last two albums is completely gone though. This feels rmore like just a collection of tracks, which isn't really a big criticism, but does make it rfail to reach the grandiose of "Beyond" and "New World Shadows". While most of the band's rother material was structured but still had plenty of surprises as the music went on, here rthe song structures are so basic that you can predict what is coming most every time. The rtracks are very nicely polished and practical in their writing, giving you just enough for a rnice memorable jam. "Majesty and Silence" is the only track that strays from the rpredictable approach. It's just a little flatter in general. All that said, this is still a rreally fun listen and highly raccessible. The motivational lyrics and great melodic feels of Omnium rGatherum still come rthrough. The band also maintains its great catchy quality on Grey Heavens. As a MASSIVE fan rof the band I know they can do better seeing as their last three albums are melodeath rmasterpieces in my opinion. In the end, there is a lot of fun to be had on Grey Heavens rdespite somewhat less depth than we may have come to expect from Omnium Gatherum.
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| 3.2 good | Trey STAFF | March 1st 16 |
It's safe, unconfrontational ultra-melodic death metal by the numbers. That doesn't mean it's not good.
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| 2.5 average | Brandon Scott EMERITUS | February 15th 16 |
As far as melodic death metal in 2016, this isn't bad. You've heard this album before by a few different bands, but these guys do it with admirable enthusiasm and a surprise every now and then. The clean vocals seem thrown in a bit haphazardly, and only seem to work on the album's best track "Majesty and Silence", but they aren't too detrimental to the album's overall quality. Recommended for people who started listening to melodic death metal yesterday and Insomnium fans.
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| 3.5 great | Xenorazr | February 22nd 16 |
There's a mix of ominous regression in Omnium Gatherum's latest album, a combination that fails to spark interest the way Beyond did, but nevertheless succeeds in delivering music that's catchy in its own bleak way.
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| 3.5 great | Ossacip Olbap | February 28th 22 |
The Pit 3.5; Skyline so simple but so good omg 4; Frontiers also simple but so fuckin good one of their best songs 5; Majesty 3.5 rare that i should be giving such a track such a score; Rejuvenate 4; Foundation ugh idk its good but bad but good but slow honestly cant go higher than 3; Great Liberation 3.5 but that piano sequence is horrible; Ophidian same deal as foundation 3; Title decentish instrum 3; Storm Front 3.5
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| 2.0 poor | siIverspawn | February 24th 16 |
I would not call this auto pilot. The sound is quite different from Beyond, there's been some evolution. I just don't think the sound is as good. It's too aggressive - kinda lost its charm.
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| 2.5 average | Panzerchrist | February 15th 16 |
OG have been going this way for a while, but they've finally started encroaching on BORING. This album has autopilot written all over it.
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| 4.0 excellent | InsomniumGatherum9 | February 14th 16 |
Really solid. Great melodies and compositions. Exactly what I've come to expect from this band! Only weak tracks for me were Skyline and Frontiers. Agree that the tracks get stronger in the second half.
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| 3.0 good | thegreywind | February 13th 16 |
Not good. I really liked the Insomnium inspired Beyond, but not this.
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| 4.0 excellent | Nifkin | February 13th 16 |
solid af!
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| 4.0 excellent | lurxy | April 13th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Halez | March 22nd 23 |
| 4.5 superb | lak89 | March 8th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Coast | July 9th 22 |
| 3.0 good | JoneHK | December 6th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Steiner | November 11th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | max13x | November 6th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Phate72 | September 29th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Raoul | June 9th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | jc3494 | March 8th 21 |
| 3.5 great | mEyck07 | November 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | HybridF | July 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ariich | June 15th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Flave | February 22nd 19 |
| 3.5 great | mctang | December 25th 18 |
| 2.5 average | SuzyC | September 1st 18 |
| 3.5 great | VikkiH | March 26th 18 |
| 3.5 great | mursu | December 14th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | RAGG | December 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Soossi | November 29th 17 |
| 2.5 average | MurphZA | December 3rd 16 |
| 3.0 good | Swarm | November 14th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Xerian | November 8th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cyroth | November 4th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | IceMole | August 18th 16 |
| 2.5 average | tgdv | July 2nd 16 |
| 2.5 average | adr | June 11th 16 |
| 3.0 good | tysly | April 20th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Nishe | April 3rd 16 |
| 3.0 good | Jeejee | March 21st 16 |
| 2.5 average | valek | March 9th 16 |
| 3.5 great | heck | February 28th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | gallus90 | February 25th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rakkie | February 22nd 16 |
| 2.5 average | trve | February 14th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Elynna | February 12th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Shogun | February 12th 16 |
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