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| 3.5 great | Gary STAFF | December 9th 20 |
The cover art tempted me to check this, and was no disappointment. I liked the interesting mix having the bass so loud, and the post-black-ish vibe fortunately did not blunt the listening experience. One last note: personally I feel a little bit more gain could have been better on the guitars.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | August 4th 20 |
Very nice bm with lots of ideas for a band I think I'll watch in the future. The record starts off quite timidly though, 1 being a pretty straightforward bm track with some good riffs but hindered by relatively tame prod - I would have liked something a little more aggressive to the ear maybe. 2 does throw some ideas in but I wouldn't say it really worked for me, I found the midtrack a bit funny sounding to be honest. However after that the record picks up in quality and quite dramatically so. 3 involves slightly cleaner yet still screamed vocals which I really dug, and has more of a personal, recognisable sound to it, with I daresay traces of Agalloch DNA that I obviously enjoyed. 4 starts off on really cool frozen riffage, then displays even more innovative sounds with strings additions, supplemental vocals, and some really great cleaner sections that match the artwork well with the track finishing in strongly atmospheric fashion. Kept my rating going up as the band really displayed a thickened, enriched sound on these two tracks. 5 is similar, starting on a frozen riff to then add strings and additional vocals, and even flute and some brass, but I found the track still less striking than 3-4, keeping this under the 4.0 bar at a solid 3.65
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| 3.5 great | SinNanna | May 16th 20 |
Fluisteraars third album Bloem is a very spring-themed and beautiful black metal record laced with anthemic and melodically rich chord progressions, as well as a meriad of extra instrumentation like trumpets, trombone, tambourine, strings, piano among other things creating a very beautiful sound pallette. Being someone from belgium I did have to get used to hearing wretched vocals screaming dutch lyrics with that unmistakably recognizable dutch accent, but apart from that I was pretty much enamored with this thing right from the start. It might not be the most experimental or unique black metal around the block by any means, but what it sets out to do it does pretty well in my opinion.
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| 4.0 excellent | madtwoo | March 20th 23 |
| 3.0 good | qt | January 17th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Prole | July 21st 21 |
| 3.5 great | Taku | April 12th 21 |
| 3.5 great | ariich | March 31st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | ckssr1 | March 9th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | aGit | February 19th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Toms | December 31st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | gnimas | December 24th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | kuga76 | December 7th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Coast | October 14th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Zero13 | September 7th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yoni91 | August 17th 20 |
| 3.5 great | bbm | August 7th 20 |
| 3.5 great | rid | June 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pangea | May 20th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | kx8 | May 17th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | April 23rd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Ugluk | April 18th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Stagger | April 12th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Greem | April 8th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Akifexx | March 27th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | alamo | March 18th 20 |
| 3.5 great | SuzyC | March 15th 20 |
| 3.5 great | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | March 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vasilis S. CONTRIBUTOR | March 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | tyler | March 8th 20 |
| 3.5 great | leon486 | February 29th 20 |
| 3.0 good | hsb | February 29th 20 |
| 3.5 great | AntalWS | February 28th 20 |
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