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Deathconscious
July 28th 2019


27894 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Mantle > Folklore > White > Ashes > Faustian > Marrow > Pillor > Serpent

StrikeOfTheBeast
July 28th 2019


8382 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

intremsting rank

Deathconscious
July 28th 2019


27894 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

And some days The White takes 2nd.

Thalassic
July 28th 2019


5740 Comments


Personally I'd swap Ashes with White, but that's a rather agreeable ranking

benkim
July 28th 2019


4813 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, unlikely anyone would be up in arms about that ranking

StrikeOfTheBeast
July 28th 2019


8382 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

bruh serpents like the best ever created in the history of anything ever ur ranking sucks kill urself





benkim
July 28th 2019


4813 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Haha okay, there's one

StrikeOfTheBeast
July 28th 2019


8382 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

LMAO that's their worst album!

Demon of the Fall
July 28th 2019


39077 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Marrow > Ashes > this > PF > Faustian > White > the rest > Serpent

Something like that anyway.

Pikazilla
July 28th 2019


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Everything is awesome apart from Marrow and Serpents.

Demon of the Fall
July 28th 2019


39077 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Marrow is the best though?! - I’m thoroughly confused by the naysayers, although there has also been some love for it too around these parts.

Rik VII
July 28th 2019


4130 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

The Grey is actually kinda terrible.



I also agree that Marrow needs more love.

Pikazilla
July 28th 2019


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I think the averages speak for themselves here, to be honest - the difference between the first three and the rest is clear as day to me. Better songwriting, better atmosphere, pretty much better everything. Marrow at times feels like it's trying to be an Opeth album - and not in a good way.

Demon of the Fall
July 28th 2019


39077 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Marrow doesn’t really sound like Opeth though? It’s their most traditionally BM-orientated album. I think they pull it off well.

Rik VII
July 28th 2019


4130 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't hear the Opeth similarities on Marrow. I could see someone comparing this an Pale Folklore to the first two Opeth albums, but that's mostly it. Opeth definitely never would have done something like Black Lake Nidstang. Or To Drown. There's a few guitar sound choices that might resemble an "Opeth"-y sound at times (especially Ghosts of Midwinter Fires), but in no way is it "trying to be an Opeth album".

If anything, it's trying to be different albums at different times (none of them being Opeth) and loses its cohesion to some degree. That's a criticism I could get behind.

Pikazilla
July 28th 2019


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't know, that's what it feels like to me. I would've definitely rated it higher if they dropped Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires and The Watcher's Monolith, those two tracks drag the whole album down.

Pikazilla
July 28th 2019


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Black Lake Nidstang is easily the best song on Marrow.

Rik VII
July 28th 2019


4130 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I think I prefer Into the Painted Grey for its tasty guitars and dynamics, but Black Lake Nidstang is definitely the most noteworthy song on there. They don't have anything else like it

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
July 28th 2019


21027 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Marrow is excellent, no real flaws to it for me aside from To Drown maybe being a little too long. Some of the acoustic parts remind me of Opeth here and there, but generally not really. It's a very unique album, and even tho everyone says it's when they went in a more traditionally bm direction, it actually has the most light and melodic sections of all their full-length releases besides The Mantle. Black Lake is my favorite.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 28th 2019


116256 Comments

Album Rating: 4.9

Black Lake is honestly my least fav on Marrow but it still slayz.



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