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UserReviews 2Approval 30%Soundoffs 46Album Ratings 47Objectivity 90%Last Active 02-06-12 3:16 amJoined 11-27-10Forum Posts 0Review Comments 20
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 | Andy Winter Incomprehensible
Incomprehensibly poor for such an outstanding musician. | 1.5
03.16.13 |  | Ihsahn Eremita
Personally, I found this album boring, not fresh at all, and inferior to Ihsahn's other three solo albums (to say nothing of his work in Emperor). | 2.5
09.09.12 |  | Katatonia Dead End Kings
Yet another Katatonia album that subscribes to the following formula for just about every song: heavy riff intro, instruments lay back replaced by rather ambient atmospheric beats plus crooning and sad vocals for the verse, heavy riff returns for chorus. Repeat twice, throw in a bridge in the middle, and for one or two chosen songs, include a guitar solo. Don't get me wrong, they are the masters of this formula within their genre. Compared to their last three albums, this one sounds more emotional, more intimate, more akin to chamber music. This is good. On the other hand, the heavy parts are not as memorable or crushing (seeing them play thi | 3.5
09.09.12 |  | Vaura Selenelion
This album is just waiting for a full review from someone who loves their music weird, eclectic, and challenging. So many different sounds and influences on this album from song to song. The brilliance of the instrumentation, unfortunately, gets a bit lost in the mix at times. | 3.5
06.01.12 |  | Anathema Weather Systems
I think the reviewer nailed it. Although I do wonder, given his valid criticisms, why he's rated the album as "Excellent." Everything here is monumentalized, bigger production, soaring vocal passages that at times soar perhaps a bit too high. "We're Here Because We're Here" had somewhat more of a rock edge, and I personally miss that element. I hear the experience of making "Falling Deeper" in this album. | 3.5
06.01.12 |  | Illogicist The Unconsciousness of Living
This is the only band in the world that I know of that's lifted their sound from "Symbolic"-era Death. Obviously, they don't do it as well as Chuck and co., but it's still a good album (though not as strong as their previous, "The Insight Eye"). | 3.0
06.01.12 |  | Solefald Norron Livskunst
Don't get me wrong, there are moments (and a song or two) on here that I really quite enjoy, but this is the kind of album that's listened to a few times then disappears from one's mental radar for months or years. I've felt pretty much the same about every Solefald album, I guess, yet have somehow, much to own surprise, managed to collect them all. | 2.5
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