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CottonSalad
March 20th 2025


3275 Comments


gonna revisit this tonight

Winter is almost over here

OmairSh
March 20th 2025


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Jammed this after a while, such brilliant moods and mature songwriting from these guys. Really were a unique band

Christbait
March 20th 2025


1463 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

One of the best cold albums out there. Completely envelops you in its wintry isolative mood.

arthropod
March 20th 2025


1968 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Not entirely cold to me. Listening to this feels like sitting next to a fading, barely burning fire late in the evening; staring at the embers and grasping the last, weak heatwaves, as the nightly chill slowly wraps around your shoulders like a blanket.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
March 20th 2025


115218 Comments

Album Rating: 4.8

I've never considered these guys a winter band tbh. Their stuff is best suited for a rainy fall day or a stroll through a forest as the leaves are turning.

ArteNovecento
April 4th 2025


284 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Not Unlike the Waves is slightly ruined for me because I can't help but imagine that Haughm is yelling "Sólstafir!!!" not as a poetic way of referring to the sun's rays, but in reference to the band by the same name, to prove his obscure metal cred mid-song.

StormChaser
July 3rd 2025


3148 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Just came in to say how Our Fortress Is Burning II - Bloodbirds is still one of the best metal tracks ever and just floors me every time. Might be my favorite from the album overall

Christbait
July 3rd 2025


1463 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

It's pretty fucking close to being perfect in my opinion.

IAmScott
July 3rd 2025


579 Comments


[2] album is practically perfection

Scoot
July 3rd 2025


24123 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

one of the best bands of their era altogether

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2025


115218 Comments

Album Rating: 4.8

Easy.

Christbait
July 3rd 2025


1463 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Falling Snow got me an A on a poetry assignment in college. 15 years later and I can finally admit it. I didn't cop the lyrics, but I was heavily (heavily) influenced by this album while writing poetry that semester.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2025


115218 Comments

Album Rating: 4.8

Falling Snow was the song that made me fall in love with this band.

Eakflanderyof
July 3rd 2025


6633 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Dead winter days was the one for me

Scoot
July 3rd 2025


24123 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

as embers dress the sky



i remember listening to that on repeat when i was in grade 10

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2025


115218 Comments

Album Rating: 4.8

All great ones!!

Zac124
July 15th 2025


4000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The intro for Limbs is genuinely perfect.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 15th 2025


115218 Comments

Album Rating: 4.8

Completely agreed.

Zac124
July 15th 2025


4000 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Fire Above, Ice Below and Unlike the Waves are the best tracks here imo. But that intro is the best part of the album. Its just beautiful.

Eakflanderyof
September 16th 2025


6633 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Ashes is almost perfect except the first iteration of our fortress is burning sounds like amateur meandering



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