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Deathconscious
January 1st 2019


27920 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Death In June rulez.

teamster
January 1st 2019


6463 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Adolf - Listening to an album for the first time in ages is an awesome feeling.

Ghand - Will check thanks

Meridiu5
January 2nd 2019


4208 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I always thought the remastered version sounded exactly the same as the original

Nice rec

Ocean of Noise
January 2nd 2019


11368 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

The remaster sounds the same and some of the transitions get ruined. Time is added between some of the tracks and there's a fade in and out between In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion and Odal instead of continuous noise like the original album



Probably the worst offence is the transition from The Hawthorne Passage to ...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth. It was an awesome, sudden, jarring transition in the original but now there's just awkward silence between the tracks. It's super bad.



So yeah, listen to the original if you can.

Ocean of Noise
January 2nd 2019


11368 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

That being said, the Pale Folklore remaster is perfect and exactly what that album needed. I'd say that remaster is essential but the remasters of this and Ashes are unnecessary and should be avoided.

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
January 2nd 2019


21029 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This and Ashes are fine in terms of production and mixing. Agreed about the PF remaster too, that was needed for sure. It still retains the raw organic feel too thankfully, not too polished or anything.

BladeRunner
January 4th 2019


643 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"That being said, the Pale Folklore remaster is perfect and exactly what that album needed. I'd say that remaster is essential but the remasters of this and Ashes are unnecessary and should be avoided."



Looks like I lucked out! I couldn't get my hands on the vinyl remaster, but I was able to track down the original vinyl. I did get the Pale Folklore remaster on vinyl though.



Double win!

Meridiu5
January 5th 2019


4208 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Pf remaster sounds exactly the same too tbh

Damn now i wanna revisit that

StrikeOfTheBeast
January 5th 2019


8382 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

It's funny how a lot of remasters are total shit despite having "master" in it. You think it would "master" the sound but nah they fuck it up. That really grinds my gears.

Meridiu5
January 5th 2019


4208 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Cough megadeth cough

StrikeOfTheBeast
January 5th 2019


8382 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Exactly what I was thinking. The KIMB remaster is arguably the least offensive, but they all suck. Not just Megadeth though.

Meridiu5
January 5th 2019


4208 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Mhm. Its such an obvious cash grab too rofl

StrikeOfTheBeast
January 5th 2019


8382 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Probably to make up for Megadeth never making it to number one on the Billboard Hot 200. lol

teamster
January 5th 2019


6463 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yea the remastered So Far So Good...is fucking awful.

Ocean of Noise
January 5th 2019


11368 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Pf remaster sounds exactly the same too tbh




Not at all. The original PF was extremely muffled and muddy. The remaster cleans it up as much as a remaster possibly could, adding more punch and eliminating the muddiness pretty damn well. What it really needed was a remix (maybe even a re-recording for certain parts) but the remaster is about as good as anyone could have expected. IMO it's the definitive version of the album.

Lucman
February 11th 2019


5537 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Jamming this hard for the first time. On track 3 now and this thing is blowing my socks off.

Meridiu5
February 11th 2019


4208 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Burn the heretic!

Sevengill
February 11th 2019


13161 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"baby's first black metal riffs"

except they weren't trying to play black metal? but that's cool that you're too mature to enjoy this.

EphemeralEternity
February 11th 2019


4937 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This bores me to tears these days i'm afraid

Lucman
February 11th 2019


5537 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Well BM is still a relatively unexplored genre for me so baby's first BM sounds just about right!



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