Album Rating: 4.0

fair enough - in your head, what sounds like a cohesive forging of the two?

Album Rating: 2.0

uhh, hard to think of it but he took some steps forward on roads

This is kinda cool so far tbh

Album Rating: 4.5

This is wonderful.

Album Rating: 3.0

this sounds so dumb

Album Rating: 4.2

A lot of people don't dig it, but I enjoy it quite a bit.

Album Rating: 3.5

it's alright, the first big track is the cringiest tho

Album Rating: 4.0

gonna give this a relisten, i really do like this album

Album Rating: 2.5

no don't i thot u wer better than that. this generic and icky

it's haphazard and incoherent as fuck

if you showed me this album and then showed me roads and autumn I'd be like no fucking way that's the same band

plus the whole theme of "hurr kentuckaaaaay coal miners and shit" theme is like "who thought that this was a good topic for a fucking black metal album?"

Album Rating: 4.0

that last sentence is actually why i like this album

Why, are you a grizzled coal miner from Kentucky that dislikes foreigners and shit?

Album Rating: 4.0

i don't see any reason that the carnage and sorrow of the coal mining industry of early industrialization america, and the institutional method by which succeeding generations were basically indentured workers, couldn't provide the themes or emotions necessary to drive a strong black metal record



what IS a good topic for a black metal album? what constitutes a bad one?

dragons and permafrost

Album Rating: 4.0

exactly, most metal topics are already indulgent as hell

Depends on the context. I don't care for my music being a historical portrait, if I want to know about history I'm gonna read up on it - music - IMO - is just not a good medium for that.


Plus there were supposedly also "nationalist"/patriot vibes on this which I really don't care for.

Album Rating: 4.0

it wasn't a history lesson, that's a dumb strawman conclusion to make from what i said. the fact is, that history provides MANY scenarious in which themes similar to what are already used in black metal could be drawn from.



i HIGHLY doubt there were patriot vibes on this, i don't know where you got that, the entire thing is anti establishment

That's what it sounded like to me. I honestly never got past the music to listen this enough to decipher the lyrics and since he usually doesn't publish them I didn't go through the effort of finding them.

I guess I'm skeptical but ultimately it would depend on how it's executed. Either way, even if this is lyrically good it's still a musical clusterfuck.

Also, anti establishment doesn't mean there can't be any (regional) patriotism vibes on this - I wasn't referring to a "fuck yeah America" type patriotism but more to one specifically about Kentucky. It would fit with the history of U.S. states trying to set themselves apart from other states and somesuch. Not saying this is necessarily the case here but one thing doesn't logically rule out the other.

Album Rating: 4.0

Plus there were supposedly also "nationalist"/patriot vibes on this which I really don't care for.



Nah,Lunn is an anarchist

Album Rating: 4.0

it's not even about whether it is good lyrically. just that thematically there's no real reason to take issue with the source material



now the clusterfuck argument, that just comes down to personal preference :]