Album Rating: 4.5

Tumulus isnt lame bro

Detestation Rite track of the year. Onto Damnation kills too

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?

^actual first paragraph of the RYM review for this album

edit: god dammit

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

his axonal transmissions must be thriving thanks to the big weeds

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

Album Rating: 3.0

Lol, that RYM review smells like bullshit.

who

Album Rating: 4.0

Awesome, i love John.

John's a member of Sputnik

Album Rating: 4.0

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

Album Rating: 4.5

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

Album Rating: 4.0

"John's a member of Sputnik"



is he fuckin really?

Album Rating: 4.0

Damn





Agreed man

Album Rating: 4.5

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



this sounds nothing like Incantation...

Album Rating: 4.5

The riffs on here are so tasty

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/

Album Rating: 4.5

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Album Rating: 4.0

needz solos doe

Album Rating: 4.0

Ye, there’s a lack of divebombs :[