Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I will probably drop Misthyrming down to a 4 by years end, but it is a fantastic album for sure. I just reallllllly love the Gilead 3

Album Rating: 4.5

I want to love those 3, and I want to love the new Mizmor (the d'Artagnan of the Gilead Muskateers), but alas I just gel with that romantic nature BM the most.

Album Rating: 4.5

I plan on making a thread where people can rec me things from 2019 I



poke me when you do; i've liked a surprising amount of bm this year and i think a lot of it's gone under the sput radar.

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm going through a wave of self-recs. Once those are cleared out I'll open the thread and get some user recs. I'd also be curious to see if anyone would want me to go back and bump things I've already rated.

Album Rating: 4.0

I feel ya, I love recs, it’s a great part of the community... but sometimes you’re thinking about the fact you just ‘self-rec’d’ a ton of stuff and it’ll be a good while before you can move on to anything else.

Album Rating: 3.5

Way overhyped. I’ve heard infinitely better bm albums but New Inertia is incredible. The rest is pretty solid.

Album Rating: 5.0

'Don't enjoy this too much. My skills of recognizing musical qualities tell me you are wrong to love this.'

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

why people gotta call something everything overhyped and can’t just say they didn’t like it as much as everyone else

I didn't enjoy this as much as everyone else.

















...possibly because of overhype

Album Rating: 3.5

To be fair, the amount of build-up I personally had leading up to this release was palpable. The hype has definitely played an influence and I think it's a fair point to bring up. Sometimes when I listen to this I find myself judging it not from my perspective, but from the view that this is 5-worthy and a testament to musical beauty.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Band has deserved the hype for years and they’re finally getting the recognition they’ve earned. Get over it ;)

Album Rating: 5.0

> it's a fair point to bring up.



Don't believe the hype?

I guess it needs to be said once in a while.

Album Rating: 4.5

I think what may be throwing people off and what threw me off with them for a long time was that if you look at FoR from a black metal perspective, they're kinda lacking in edge. It's not a very "black metal" black metal album. What they have been for this album and the last one specifically are just a kind of meditative, loose amalgamation of prog rock and american folk and post rock and shoegaze with a kind of general atmo black coating. If I come into it looking for some black metal I get a little let down because it's a very soft and melodic and warm album, but from the correct perspective they're very beautiful songwriters.

New Inertia is amazing wow.

Album Rating: 4.5

Falls of Rauros imo are fairly outside the black metal realm. I mean even if were talking atmoblack they seem like they're just as influenced by post rock as they are something like Agalloch or Burzum.

Well said Gameofmetal. Nailed why I'm not a huge fan.

Album Rating: 5.0

why people gotta call something everything overhyped and can’t just say they didn’t like it as much as everyone else

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

in all fairness it's a legitimate aesthetic judgment (though not so pleasing to hear), conveying something stronger than a disagreement of opinion ("i feel that the quality of album A just doesn't merit the reactions it has received" vs "i don't like album A myself but i see why other people do so much")

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

brutal 2nd rating drop, Claire

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

it sounded good on the first listen but then i realized i could never sit through a subsequent one