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BigBlob
November 29th 2017


5972 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

that big gong smash at the end of L'Via L'Viaquez

JS19
November 29th 2017


7777 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

the ambience makes this album tho

BigBlob
November 29th 2017


5972 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"the ambience makes this album tho"



it would be a worse album without it yeh









Demon of the Fall
November 29th 2017


39994 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Aimless ambience just unnecessarily prolongs the runtime, those birds are not needed. The highs on this are easy 5/5 though.

Kalopsia
November 29th 2017


3384 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

^yep, Demon nailed it. otherwise this would be a 5/5 easily

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
March 4th 2018


11735 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

^^Yep, album still is insane.

DDDeftoneDDD
March 4th 2018


23630 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

agree!no birds. but i guess that was the lsd speaking :P

unclereich
March 30th 2018


14494 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

first 4 minutes of cygnus is the greatest thing ive ever heard

Demon of the Fall
March 30th 2018


39994 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Really wish I could five this, the highs are insane, essentially 80% of the album is gold-dust.

XingKing
March 30th 2018


16411 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I've always wanted to edit out the excessive ambient bullshit on this album. Maybe one day I will.

Although I must admit that dropping acid and listening to this album is a fucking RIDE

unclereich
March 30th 2018


14494 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

that's what we were saying decades ago about floyd

Demon of the Fall
March 30th 2018


39994 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It’s the album that most warrants it in my collection, there’s a lot of padding in certain releases, ‘progressive’ ones in particular, but this really does take it too far at times & would be near flawless without the poorly executed ambient sections, the infamous ‘birds/whale noises’ one especially.

XingKing
March 30th 2018


16411 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The godawful metal clanking for 4+ minutes on the title track as well.

unclereich
March 30th 2018


14494 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

im guessing that why we all have it 4.5'd lol

WatchItExplode
March 30th 2018


10731 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I haven't listened to this in a few years, guess I'm due to revisit it.

XingKing
March 30th 2018


16411 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"im guessing that why we all have it 4.5'd lol"



This would be an insta-5 without those bits.

BrainlessLoser
March 31st 2018


31 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The ambient sections go on for too long on this album. If they were cut the album would be almost perfect and the title track could be added without the album being longer than it already is. Also those "birds" are actually frogs.

GreyShadow
July 26th 2018


8266 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I skip the ambiance a lot of the time. I gotta get to them 5/5 parts.



Haven't listened to this in a while and Miranda still was able to make me shiver. such a big chorus thing.

XingKing
July 26th 2018


16411 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"If they were cut the album would be almost perfect and the title track could be added without the album being longer than it already is"



I'd never thought about this, mostly because I've always had the title track as the opener of the record, but I can't believe the band didn't cut out some of the bullshit so they could add the title track back on. Damn drugs

DDDeftoneDDD
July 26th 2018


23630 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"Damn drugs" They're responsible for some good things here to lolol X)



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