Album Rating: 4.5
Wiz, while I tend to agree with you're recommendations (I consider Enmerkar to be straight Atmosperhic BM tbh), I am still baffled by how you don't like this a little bit more.
I really like CRB even though many don't, esp on RYM. Have you heard the new EP yet? http://dusktone.bandcamp.com/album/cold-body-radiation-the-longest-shadows-ever-cast-dusktone
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Actually, you could classify those vocals as bm as well. I hear really raspy bm vocals so it could go either way. Have you ever heard Bosse-de-Nage? Puts these guys to shame in the blackgaze/ post-metal/ screamo (if you want to count the vocals as pertaining to screamo) genre.
Wiz, while I tend to agree with you're recommendations (I consider Enmerkar to be straight Atmosperhic BM tbh), I am still baffled by how you don't like this a little bit more.
Because it's a genre I'm growing tired of fast. And yeah, I agree with Enmerkar but they still possess that blurred, trance quality you would find on this disc.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I thought it was mostly the vocals that gave it the 'screamo' feel. The post-rock/shoegaze influences might be used by other hardcore groups, but that doesn't make them hardcore native.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I liked the new Bosse-de-Nage but I wasn't blown away by it like some people. Thought it was a bit above average and more Depressive BM than Blackgaze. Just an opinion though.
(@ zaruyache in my review of Roads to Judah I mentioned their screamo/crust similarity as well, and it is evident, just not really at the forefront of the sound.)
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Album Rating: 4.0
New Bosse often feels more post-rock aligned than black metal, though. This is clearly the more aggressive of the two, although they both expand the BM sound.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Don't get me wrong though, I love bands that push boundaries of any genre.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Sounds like Boards of Canada for children and metalheads
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
While I like both the Cold Body Radiation and Enmerkar albums (and quite a lot, actually) what I feel sets this record apart is in the many ways that it is NOT a black metal record. I honestly think a couple of the major "aesthetic" aspects of black metal -- that "cold" / "grim" atmosphere and overall bleak and seemingly nihilistic mindstate that is imbued in just about every black metal record -- are what a lot of people here are fixating on when it comes to the reception of the record. Those who are drawn to the overall genre for its bleak alienation aren't going to find that here. While I will totally admit that what deafheaven do is nothing new or even out of the ordinary in the last 5 or 6 years or so, what I will say is how they approach the style (especially on Sunbather) is something that I find very refreshing. The record is defined more by its outside influences and the overall uplifting nature and sense of optimism within the music. It basically shuns the idea that modern black metal can only be summed up by the cover art on a Krieg record. Once again, they aren't the only band doing this. The new An Autumn for Crippled Children double sided single also does this, albeit throwing a somewhat awkward 80's Cure influence into the second track that almost derails its perfect precursor. Both these records also follow the same bright art motifs that act as sort of a "fuck you" to the genre's traditionalism. To me it is more fitting to see these bands not really as being defined as black metal bands, but more as bands using black metal as the glue to combine many of these outside aesthetics and influences into coherent songs and records. I can understand why someone who is drawn to that "evil" mystique that metal has created for itself since Black Sabbath got together and jammed in an old movie theater would find Sunbather as something that is awkward or uninteresting because it is intentionally missing something that has become a fascination for a large portion of the heavy music listening populace, but if you look beyond that it makes up for it with so much more.
TLDR - shut up and enjoy the music for what it is, not what you want it to be.
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Album Rating: 4.0
My order shipped, too. Kinda sucks, though, since I'll probably end up buying one of those shirts and have to pay more shipping than if I'd bought it and the CD together. Oh well. My Batman graphic novels should also be arriving soon, yippie :3
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Album Rating: 4.5
I got the Black shirt with the pink Sunbather lettering :3
@redskyformiles I forgot about the Autumn for Crippled Children EP for a second, much like this album it's outside the norm a bit, coincidentally also having a pink cover!
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for the record, i would rate stuff like the great white emptiness as highly as this. they are different is all im saying.
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Feel free to dodge the reality of this album as long as you understand that your 4.5-5 ratings WILL drop hard in time
once you fully understand where this band stands within the metal scene."
yeah don't concern yourselves with trivial things like whether or not you like how the band sounds, it's all about where
they stand in the metal scene.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
agreed. hard. i don't give a fuck where a band "stands" in the scene. if i enjoy it, i enjoy it. i see no need to prove how kvlt i am on last.fm
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Album Rating: 4.5
holy fuck people on last.fm can be so obnoxious about this band
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CONTROVERSY
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Album Rating: 4.5
LOUD NOISES.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE YELLING.
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Album Rating: 4.5
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/32689879.jpg
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Album Rating: 3.5
while this isn't really blackgaze, it does sound like An Autumn For Crippled Children minus the keys and occasional gazy sections (aka what makes their last album so good).
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Album Rating: 4.0
They're making a sequel to that film. I doubt it will be good :-[
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