Same

absolutely, and i cannot stress this enough, -loathe- the term “blackgaze” as a genre descriptor tho

If this had palatable production I'd guess I'd 2.5-3 it. And even if I did 2 it, that's still raising it a whole point off of production alone, from unlistenable to just poor. Dont see the prob now that I think about it.

Album Rating: 5.0

I thought the production on Emperor's first two albums was ass the first time I heard them (probably blasphemy).



So again, can 100% agree, production here is an aquired taste. But once you aquire it…

Would you consider this headphone or speaker optimized?

Album Rating: 5.0

100% headphones, preferably with a wide soundstage and good low-end. I had to completely screw with my car's EQ settings to be able to hear anything besides "bfffffffhhhhhhzzzz" on this.

Word. I have some pretty quality sennheisers so at least I can confirm that I listened to it right when I say it's not for me.


I did wrap them in tinfoil tho

Album Rating: 5.0

See, that's the issue, the tin foil jacks up the mids and highs, which basically makes this one giant continuous record scratch.

i’ve always thought of emperor to be my fav bm band, so stuff like this always has a chance w me

biggest disappointment was always Ulver, their place and sound has influenced so many bands I luv and their sound on paper aligns w a lot of things I look for in music, i just... can’t get into it

I really love that one agalloch song about being a door

falling snow is the only agalloch song i listen to ever and it’s all bc of the intro riff

Album Rating: 5.0

Limbs is definitely my favorite track on Ashes Against the Grain

listening to falling snow rn bc of this thread and now want to relisten to this whole album , truly a top tier song

Album Rating: 5.0

And now I'm pacing back and forth

Wishing you were at my door

I'd open up and you would say, Hey

It was enchanting to meet you

Album Rating: 5.0

I’m listening to Falling Snow right now as well @mixtape 😄

Album Rating: 4.5

Agalloch has kinda grown off me over the years but I still dig some ashes and PF occasionally. The beginning of bloodbirds is top notch

Album Rating: 5.0

PF is my favorite. But The Mantle and Ashes both were as well at some point

i’ve always been weird w them bc i don’t much care for the mantle but falling snow as a song has always been amazing to me. listening to ashes again rn and it honestly is much better than i remember

Album Rating: 4.0

Jammed this recently. It was very good. Sounds like every other Paysage album.



I have no idea why this very generic sounding lo-fi atmospheric black metal is somehow the new standard for modern black metal though (which is a whole other kettle of fish, as though there aren't so many extremely different styles of black metal that to hold it all to the same standard, which for some reason is now *this album*, isn't somehow absurd.)