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| 0.0 | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | September 26th 22 |
here are some pictures from our skiing trip, we also recorded an album in our airbnb
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| 3.0 good | Mitch | December 7th 22 |
Darkthrone are back, and more okay than ever.
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| 3.0 good | Bedex | October 30th 22 |
Kind of like with the previous album, Spacethrone is a concept with sooo much potential that is only sparsely touched here, and this ends up leaving me with a feeling of frustration, moreso than with Eternal Hails even as the synthy touches seem even rarer here. Darkthrone go to doom tempos, and this gives a good feel of frost to the music - which nicely works when it is atmospheric. Aside from the vocals which are frankly unconvincing to me, I kind of dug 1 because of this. It reminds me of Agalloch in places I confess. But then the album very quickly strips its atmosphere and goes to bare bones riff+bass+drums, which combined to the slow tempo really does not make me all that excited. 2-5 are pretty much all like this, except when the rare synth touches come on 3 and 4, which is reliably my favourite moment of the track but are just too sparse. 6 breaks things with a cool weird interlude, and 7 has the best intro here, starting on a frost ambience before converting to some kind of heavy metal with an outstanding transition. When it unfolds, it goes back to the barer sound, so it kinda meh's me, but it does come back to atmsophere quickly for a while. Some more of that, then the album ends, just like that. 3.2
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| 4.5 superb | SpideryMan | November 1st 22 |
This is a good blackened doom metal album with a jammy atmosphere complimented by great (clearly seasoned) vocals that just barely growl enough to be ghostly and sinister, but present. It isn't like eternal hails, has more of a higher end and also less of the muffled sabbathian stylings it had. I'd compare certain tracks more to progressive rock with tracks like "Impeccable caverns of satan" having a near rush influenced jaunt at times. Bare in mind however that none of this is being accomplished by removing the blackened crust that Dark Throne has accumulated over time. Pretty great stuff.
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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. STAFF | October 29th 22 |
The 'throne duo continues with the brand they've been doing the past few years: blackened doom with classic heavy touches here and there. They feature some nice lil additions, like acoustic guitar, or whatever that effect thang is on "The Sea Beneath the Seas of the Sea" (lel). They just makin' sure nobody argues they're the best long-running bm band.
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| 4.5 superb | rage11111ro | October 29th 22 |
Rating this at 4 is showing that I do
not learn from my mistakes. I had to
bump up the previous 2 albums multiple
times, will probably do the same here ..
Edit: of course I cannot listen to
anything else..switched up to 4.5
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| 3.5 great | Verdr | March 6th 24 |
| 3.0 good | doofy | January 13th 24 |
| 3.5 great | budgie | November 29th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wzzzard | October 24th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Hawks | September 30th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Kelek | September 29th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | May 31st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Spec | May 29th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Glebus | March 2nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | mrManxxx | February 17th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Mudryk | January 6th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Aurora | January 5th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Inveigh | December 29th 22 |
| 3.0 good | MAB | December 18th 22 |
| 2.5 average | gk1979 | December 14th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | November 26th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | heck | November 25th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Trey STAFF | November 19th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Behexen | November 17th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dodedodo | November 16th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Pangea | November 15th 22 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | November 10th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Coast | November 9th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | UrukHai | November 8th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | November 8th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Elynna | November 7th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Marci | November 7th 22 |
| 3.0 good | 8genre | November 7th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | MvdW | November 6th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gazo | November 4th 22 |
| 1.5 very poor | Nike94 | November 2nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | November 1st 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Bulgaro | October 31st 22 |
| 3.0 good | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | October 31st 22 |
| 3.5 great | arf | October 30th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Thor | October 30th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Brabiz | October 30th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Simon K. STAFF | October 30th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | ABond | October 30th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | October 29th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Voivod STAFF | October 29th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Arche | October 29th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | October 29th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | pabcel | October 29th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sunnyvale STAFF | October 28th 22 |
| 3.5 great | manosg EMERITUS | October 28th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Tryster | October 28th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gary STAFF | October 28th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | October 28th 22 |
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