Album Rating: 4.5
RE the Cruelty Remaster:
OK so I've checked it and I don't like it. The original is a lot sharper, I think that totally fits the atmosphere. Might be something I could get used to over time of course, but I prefer the original.
That thin, sharp, veil-like sound is just so fitting for this spooky evil-countess theme, makes it all ghostlier, colder, recalling creepy castles on lonely hills in freezing cold nights which is totally in line with the album story-wise. Or at least, that's how I experience it.
The remaster blunts all of these qualities (the sharpness, the coldness, the thinness) in order to make it fuller, heavier, to give it more body. I guess it's totally a case of preference really (isn't it always?).
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Album Rating: 3.8
Fair enough man, it’s understandable. I get that for a lot of people the production of the original is inextricably linked with the theme and aesthetic of the content so to have that completely turned on its head is gonna be jarring. Think when I first listened to the album I didn’t deep it quite that much and (particularly considering the band’s thoughts on it) it seemed just bizarre and not as hard-hitting as it ought to have been, so to have it polished up like the remaster does can only feel like an improvement to me.
Like I said before though, in my head they’re just different ways to experience it and now we have two options to choose from!
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Album Rating: 4.5
"Like I said before though, in my head they’re just different ways to experience it and now we have two options to choose from!"
Yeah this is 100% true, and a good thing too. And it totally made sense to remaster it since they weren't happy with it themselves and many listeners never were either, despite it being one of their most acclaimed albums.
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