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| 3.4 great | Trey STAFF | January 13th 23 |
At its core, Illuminated is a mixture of black metal and melodic death metal featuring the beautiful Avienne in vocals (seriously, go check her out), but it's also more than that. Interspersed through out the death and black metal are elements of progressive metal, post metal, and post black metal, to name a few. Avienne capably handles every genre shift with black metal rasps, death metal growls, and even ethereal clean singing. Illuminated also benefits from a collection of songs that never really start to feel familiar, with each kind of having its own personality. Definitely worth a listen.
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| 4.0 excellent | Durrzo | March 8th 20 |
This is so much better than their old material it's actually insane. Glad I circled back to these guys because this slays.
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| 4.5 superb | ManiacBlasphemer | October 3rd 19 |
This album is a quantum leap forward compared to the debut. And the debut album was a very good one at that. The music is a lot heavier and more complex. This can no longer be labeled as plain old soft melodeath, this is an extreme form of progressive metal with black and death metal elements. Just take the opening track. When it starts, you are under the impression that you listen to a black metal album. You only realize that this is more than that when you reach the the short, slow keyboard part. Avienne Low is a terrific vocalist. Her clean vocals are good, reminiscent of Aleah Starbridge (particularly her lower range) but her harsh vocals are the real highlight. Avienne is like Tatiana from Jinjer on steroids. No filler tracks at all on this record. The highlights are the opening track, Crack of Light, Old Ones and Befallen. The other two are solid.
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| 4.5 superb | LukC | August 5th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dmax28 | July 23rd 22 |
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