Album Rating: 4.0

Spectrum of one colour is so good

Album Rating: 4.5

Spectrum of One Colour probably has the cringiest sounding vocal moment on the album for me but that song is extremely good as a whole. I love how demonic the growls sound at the end.

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Is the cringey moment in Spectrum you're referring to the line "can you hear that gnawing sound?"?

Album Rating: 4.5

He does some shriek in the first few bars and it's just not for me, haha.

Album Rating: 2.7 | Sound Off

Blasphemy and this have plenty of cringy vocals throughout. Would enjoy both a good deal more if they were basically instrumental, at least the more metal songs. But I love the singing on pretty much all of Coffins and Phobos.

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What you call cringy I call theatrical and artistic. I love the vocals here. They come out of the heart.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Oh I love that shriek

Blasphemy is plentiful in campy vocals with the hushed shouts about "HIS POCKETS FILLED WITH GOLLLD" and other yarr hare fiddledidee being a pirate is alright to be lyrics

Album Rating: 4.0

Blasphemy has some really fun camp vocal bits, love the “this was different, this was something” bit in Something Opal to death

Album Rating: 2.7 | Sound Off

lol alright whatever floats your guys’s boats.

Album Rating: 4.5

Oh wtf that shriek in Spectrum is the shit. That track has some of my fav vocal moments in the album overall actually

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Best vocals and best everything are on An Eye for a Lie don't even @ me

Album Rating: 4.0

I know exactly that vocal moment, and it's why my rating is a 4.0 instead of a 4.5 haha. It felt too out of a place in an otherwise awesome song. It was like a cliche 80s metal scream.

Album Rating: 4.5

The blasphemy vocals grew on me quite a bit and I personally think the style of theatrical vocals he developed on that album have grown and makes this album better as a result. It's nice to hear an album heavy as fuck without it relying on brutal growls to get across the evil vibes. Hearing Toby sing about a child's fly-ridden mother decomposing in a bed of her own filth (Brethren) is way more powerful and effective with the theatrics. Speaking of growls though, I think when Toby does do them on this album they're probably his best (Spectrum and Epipsychidion).

Album Rating: 4.5

Also I'm one of the believers for "An Eye for a Lie". The whole "What is this thing upon this hook?" bit towards the end of the song is such an amazing vocal performance.

Album Rating: 4.0

if you've never heard the manifold curiosity you are missing out



the most creative song ever written imo

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The Manifold What? Bet it sounds lame :^)

Album Rating: 4.0

it's from choirs of the eye if you're not being snarky

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I am being snarky uwu

Album Rating: 2.7 | Sound Off

The best part of this is the bass lines, which were nonexistent on Blasphemy from what I can tell. I still slightly prefer that album tho.

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Kayo Dot’s 10th LP, “Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike”, is one more proof that Toby Driver genius is fortunately still with us. His borderless brand of experimental and progressive metal invites 80s synth music and post-punk/gothic vibes this time in this uniquely brilliant record. “Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike” is a sonic voyage that reflects upon the pagan mind's cyclic vision of the world with great charisma and emotion. For this task Toby recruited all the original members from his previous project, Maudlin of the Well, which is fantastic news for all of us who held Maudlin of the Well close to our hearts.

Sound wise this album sees Kayo Dot expanding their late synth driven brand of prog metal/rock as they incorporate some new elements from 80s post-punk and gothic rock that endow the music with a unique, reflective tone that feels very fresh yet very reminiscent of the 80s rock and dark music. Imagine Rush’s “Power Windows” era meeting Joy Division and then add Type O Negative’s dark vibes and Ulver’s experimental approach to the mix to get an idea of what you should expect here. Compositionally the album is very interesting.