Album Rating: 4.5

goin in

No Gospel being better than any Gospel track and Blood Moon (while hardly my fav here) trouncing the entirety of that album makes me see this as a stealth attack

Album Rating: 3.0

Erm listening to first track off moon is a dead world and no. Their drummer would make this one choke on his drumsticks

tech-wise yes, but if your metric for skramz is drummer virtuosity you're straight-up listening to the wrong genre

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah I think that may be my problem, cept I’m definitely digging this gospel record so there’s that

Album Rating: 4.5

You gotta love albums that sound good at first listen but then after each consecutive listen... get only better.

Album Rating: 4.5

Imagine not liking "cleans" in 2024

Wind Song top 5 on here with option to move up considerably agreed

Album Rating: 5.0

bumpin that (rating to a 5) because this already feels like a personally meaningful album

Album Rating: 3.5

"No Gospel being better than any Gospel track and Blood Moon (while hardly my fav here) trouncing the entirety of that album makes me see this as a stealth attack"



Golden Dawn tho. No dispute with the Blood Moon thing, lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Instant classic, holy shit

Album Rating: 5.0

Didn't think Chelsea Wolfe would be topped for me this year, but here we are

Album Rating: 4.0

No Gospel is probably my favourite song here, but idk if I can say it’s better than any Gospel track. It does have a totally unnecessary latter half, and that “holy book” section is kind of meh, despite having actually good cleans. First 5 or so minutes tho, perfection

Album Rating: 5.0

The 2nd half of No Gospel had to grow on me but I definitely think it all flows well

Album Rating: 4.0

It flows well enough and nothing about it is bad at all, I just feel like it’s a much punchier and more replayable track at like 5-6 mins. My biggest issue with giving this a higher rating rn is actually the length; my adhd brain can’t handle an hour+ of skramz lol. I’m prob gonna settle on a 4 tho, incredible record regardless of my reservations

Not entirely sure that Golden Dawn even makes the upper half for its album
but yeah I feel the second half of No Gospel is a decent payoff in and of itself but (maybe more importantly) an entirely satisfying progression from the first half. Track earns its keep, doesn't feel at all like 10 mins

Do agree that this record is too long though - can't fingerpoint many obvious cuts beyond Palo Santo and won't dismiss how well it handles such a range of ideas, but its impact atm is a little too crater-shaped to get under my skin like it might have. Will maybe walk back this take at some point idk

Album Rating: 5.0

2nd half of No Gospel also leads perfectly into Transfiguration so points for that too



Also I think some people are being silly, we got peeps not into this kind of stuff giving it a 4 and saying the cleans are good but not their style then some people are like "wowwww people can't deal with cleans" like what lol, have we become so pre-conditioned to anti-hype that this is above criticism or what

Album Rating: 4.0

“my adhd brain can’t handle an hour+ of skramz” [2]



legit the amount of times I checked to be like “is it over yet?” and I was only at the midway point lol

Album Rating: 4.5

"No Gospel being better than any Gospel track and Blood Moon (while hardly my fav here) trouncing the entirety of that album makes me see this as a stealth attack"



lol god no, the moon is a dead world crushes this. although I'd say the styles are so different, the comparisons don't make much sense

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah I just revisited the moon is a dead world yesterday and it's clearly doing something very different - drumming is a lot more cracked there but I wouldn't be expecting that here anyway given the different vibes lol