Album Rating: 4.8
Amazing band yeah.
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This sounds like a perfectly serviceable modern Amorphis record, and I dig it. Any new ideas on this record are so subtle that I might have missed them first listen, and while the band really feels like they are sticking to what they know, nobody else does it better
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Album Rating: 4.0
Dungeon had same first impressions but it has staying power. More than new katatonia did. Good thing is there’s no weak links in borderland
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
album does take a bit to get going but that second half is killer
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Album Rating: 4.0
Agreed, last 3/4 tracks are great. I really enjoy Fog to Fog too, though
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Album Rating: 4.8
Pretty consistently amazing all the way through for me. Bones is probably my favorite song here.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Ha that might just be my least favourite, mostly cause it sounds so much like Death of a King
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Album Rating: 4.8
DAMN!!!
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Album Rating: 4.0
Im digging this a lottt. Encouraged me to return to doing a discog dive on the band.
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Album Rating: 4.8
Hell yeah bro.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Bones is also my least fav haha :s
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Album Rating: 4.8
You people are crazy lol.
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Album Rating: 4.0
It’s got that sitar which is a very Amorphis flavor. For me they’re all within a percentage point or 2 of each other- very consistent record
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Album Rating: 4.8
Agreed hard.
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Album Rating: 4.8
This is top three Amorphis for me. Obsessed with this album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'd put this below Queen of Time but above everything else since Skyforger
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Album Rating: 4.8
They all rule hard.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Good album but really feels like modern Amorphis on auto pilot. Tempest and Light and Shadow are really good though.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
This album ends really strong, with 'The Lantern', 'Borderland' and 'Despair' especially the standout tracks for mine.
'The Circle' is cool and reminiscent of 'The Way' and 'Tempest' is also quite a nice tune. I still feel this band should incorporate more earthy sounds, go more acoustic, and add more dynamics to their sound, but I welcome some of the folkier and melodic elements as opposed to Halo.
The singles - especially 'Light and Shadow' are songs I'm least impressed with, they feel somewhat standard and safe. Overall I'm pretty happy with this, its not as generic as I was fearing with some of the singles, those last 3 tracks elevate it. But I still think they need to try something different, still have some of that quintessential Amorphis sound, but go more rustic or something, every next album more and more feels like there's a big risk it will just be going through the motions.
I hope they challenge themselves next time, but maybe in this later stage of their career playing it safe is all they really want to do?
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Album Rating: 4.0
Cheesy as fuck but man this is a fun record to listen to, last two tracks rule
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