Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
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rabidfish
September 15th 2023


8725 Comments


i like colorful psychedelic metal cover art.
will check at some point.

tectactoe
September 15th 2023


7456 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Nice review. Not sure I love the proggier elements here . Or, more accurately, it's not that I mind prog elements so much as I generally love Tomb Mold for their crushing relentlessness and that sound is largely absent here. It's good, it's obviously very well composed and coherent to a specific vision. But it feels almost like... Cynic + Atheist + Voivoid or something, when really I'd just rather have good ol' Tomb Mold. Respect, tho. As far as techy prog DM goes, it's one of the better releases for sure.

Hawks
September 15th 2023


89540 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Damn son.

Hyperion1001
Emeritus
September 15th 2023


26300 Comments


the problem is that it’s not very well composed. they’re always been poor songwriters and diving hard into prog death like this just makes it all the more apparent.

might not post in this thread anymore lol. rip.

Goodolboy
September 15th 2023


1011 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah you probably shouldn't lol this ain't for you.



First spin album is glorious. Sounds like classic tomb mold mixed with individual thought patterns era death,dream unending, and cynic. Shit just blew my mind son..

Frost15
September 15th 2023


3283 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Repost from their previous album thread.

I'm going to spoil the party but new Tomb Mold has let me down. I'll try to explain why:



They definitely embarked on the Death/Horrendous route now with some Cynic(al) moments here and there (which I should have predicted in the cover art). Now the problem is, Death and Horrendous went progressively into that prog direction if you listen to their discogs progression (too many prog words, I know, forgive me). Here the change was very abrupt and that came with a few pitfalls.



First this new style makes the dm growls sound kind of boring very fast, it's like they remain the same while the music is going places and after just a song or two they stand out as a bit dull and not on par with the music.



Second, the soloing guitar production is weird, it's like the guitar is playing in a completely different place, I felt there is a lack of harmony at many points in the album's production.



Third, for some reason the proggy elements clearly inspired by acts like Death, Cynic and Atheist end up sounding like a band trying to be something they are not (yet). I couldn't really vibe with the new one.



Score 3'4

botb
September 15th 2023


17993 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Loving this so far, big cosmic riff energy

Hawks
September 15th 2023


89540 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Bruh Hype I completely disagree so ahrd. This is some of the best prog dm I've heard tbh.

Goodolboy
September 15th 2023


1011 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yup fools are tripping. "The prog elements sound like a band that's trying to be something they are not" uhhhh no stfu lol. It sounds like a band that added prog elements into their sound and it's just not what you wanted to hear from them. They killed it.

JayEnder
September 15th 2023


20198 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Closer is one of the finest pieces of DM ever recorded. What a work of art.



Album slayz all around but damn that last song is beyond epic m/

BallsToTheWall
September 15th 2023


51272 Comments


Solid stuff.

Hawks
September 15th 2023


89540 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah it's definitely a drastic change but they pull it off perfectly. m/

trilo
September 15th 2023


6394 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

much prefer to their older material yah

Trebor.
Emeritus
September 15th 2023


59905 Comments


Bloodborne reference so should probably listen

calmrose
September 15th 2023


6839 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I think this album has solidified Tomb Mold as my favorite modern/current death metal band

MillionDead
September 15th 2023


5346 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Been meaning to get into these guys for a long time. I feel like I should start from an earlier place though, to give this album its proper umph.

calmrose
September 15th 2023


6839 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i would just go chrono, all their albums rip

Hawks
September 15th 2023


89540 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yep.

Pikazilla
September 15th 2023


30087 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

best dm of the year so far

Ryus
September 15th 2023


37329 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

this band has never been all that good but ill check this



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