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WretchedCacophony
December 19th 2018


3647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Tumulus isnt lame bro

Detestation Rite track of the year. Onto Damnation kills too

hal1ax
December 21st 2018


15881 Comments


What blunt needle sews the twine of reality and the conscious fabric of being, the ego, acts as a punctuation for the naturally disinclined self. However long it takes primates to glimpse or fully achieve the ‘ego-death’, be it lifetime of Buddhist focus or an ill-concieved teenage psychedelic trip, there exists no more sought after respite for the naturally empathetic and anxietous ape. Leary saw the use of psychedelics from a shamanic point of view as pointed medicine, a venomous transcendence that could be guided and beneficial. Stanislav Grof‘s research approached their use as a means to study the relationship between the numbing effects of a ‘near death experience’ and memories of birth, a linking of perceived traumas in relation to the out of body, out of mind effects of psychedelic substances. The annihilation of the established and merely perceived ‘self’ within the arc of LSD consumption is inevitably linked with death; The ‘fear’ felt is merely uncontrollable separation anxiety triggered by the scared puppy that is the subconscious and with some meditative control of the mind’s conscious path it is possible for this anxious fear of the death of the self to subside. At some point the mind is lost, the subject becoming a whirling sorcerer of hallucinations that slowly loses all sense of ego. By accident or through traditions passed on since the mid-80’s the creation of death themed music has been inspired by those who see the cliffs of psychedelic mindloss, a drug-induced psychosis, and resist the plunge. What spectacle the fantastic lineage that trails behind this golden age of ‘psychic death’ metal of the detached self represents! Who better represents these psychoses than Kolbotn, Norway extremists Obliteration?

hal1ax
December 21st 2018


15881 Comments


^actual first paragraph of the RYM review for this album

edit: god dammit

Ryus
December 21st 2018


37885 Comments


wow...how can one man have so much wisdom

hal1ax
December 21st 2018


15881 Comments


his axonal transmissions must be thriving thanks to the big weeds

dimsim3478
December 23rd 2018


8987 Comments


i unno if this has already been mentioned in this thread but FUCKING JOHN DARNIELLE APPROVED

https://www.mergerecords.com/2018-year-end-lists-john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats

Demon of the Fall
December 23rd 2018


39014 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Lol, that RYM review smells like bullshit.

bloc
December 23rd 2018


70880 Comments


who

Deathconscious
December 23rd 2018


27884 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Awesome, i love John.

EyesWideShut
December 24th 2018


6122 Comments


John's a member of Sputnik

TheNotrap
December 31st 2018


19369 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The best 101 incantation-esque death metal album of the year

dbizzles
January 1st 2019


15410 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Best death metal album of the year, period, imo.

Deathconscious
January 1st 2019


27884 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"John's a member of Sputnik"



is he fuckin really?

TheNotrap
January 1st 2019


19369 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Damn





Agreed man

WretchedCacophony
January 2nd 2019


3647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"The best 101 incantation-esque death metal album of the year"



this sounds nothing like Incantation...

FearThyEvil
January 8th 2019


19392 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The riffs on here are so tasty

BigPleb
January 8th 2019


65808 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Best production job of 2018, everything just sounds perfect.



Album feels a little basic when compared to BDH but damn, the riffs are still some of the best in the game m/

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
January 8th 2019


115563 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

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Pon
Emeritus
January 8th 2019


6187 Comments


needz solos doe

BigPleb
January 8th 2019


65808 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Ye, there’s a lack of divebombs :[



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