that picture is the dumbfuckiest thing

this is pretty good, but they played it way too safe on this album. it literally sounds like a ghost bath / deafheaven mash up. they need to make a name for themselves, and maybe hire someone to write for them who isn't a pedantic english major dropout

man I haven't seen the original album cover or heard this, but that rationale for it is so dumb.

This is way better than ghost bath though

Album Rating: 3.0

my favourite parts of this album are when the clean guitars take over, they have a great sense of harmonics when it comes to cleaner moments



the black metal moments are basically just power chords though, those moments get pretty samey pretty quickly. they really should have brought some of that great sense of harmony that's heard in the cleaner sections into the black metal movements too



there's a lot going for this album but the brash aesthetic to art/lyrics and the indistinct black metal movements do hold it back. it's definitely better than ghost bath, for sure.

that's because ghost bath blows

Album Rating: 3.0

that's true tbf [:

i agree tho, this barely scrapes by as black metal, if it's even fair to call it that. i'd call it post metal that occasionally looks at a framed photo of black metal longingly

Album Rating: 3.5

Ghost Bath ...pales in comparison to this record

deafheaven worship less than sign

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah the assessments that the lyrical content and band bio consist of are distractingly juvenile

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah i thought long and hard about whether the album really deserved a 4.5 with that cover and that bio, which is part of the reason i started the review the way i did. but like i said, i just found the music too damn gorgeous

Album Rating: 4.5

Interesting views about the cover art and their beliefs behind it. I want to know if you people have downgraded your rating because of it. Me? I rate it strictly on the music - not the entire package - but now I am having second thoughts.

Album Rating: 3.5

just rate it for the music. 'tis a case of a great album with bad album art

OvDeath: pretty much every thing you said man. I enjoyed this musically a lot more than I expected to after reading about the album's concept, but boy is it a stupid concept

The central theme, music, and image for 'Home' revolves around a longing for something that we as humans will never achieve. We are all empty and broken in some form or another, so we look for fulfilment through things like money, sex, relationships, drugs, religion, and a variety of other things, but we in the end ultimately remain void of any true happiness . What we are really searching for, is the innocence of a child, which knows nothing about this world and since we are incapable of ever getting that back, the only place we can find this comfort is inevitably only through death. The Little Girl on the cover represents this final resting place for us – beyond our existence in this world. And the album title sums it up once you realize she doesn't have to experience all the pain and sorrow of becoming an adult. 'Home' evokes this melancholic blissful state within the listener and as you spend more time becoming familiar her picture, you begin to see the music reflecting her being in this condition, reflected in her face seemingly close to smiling. It is the death of innocence.

it's like all post bm bands are in a contest to come up with the saddest self-sadness they can sad

EDIT: OK, not all of them. bad comment, carry on

Album Rating: 3.0

I didn't know metal could be so gay.

An anonymous depressive black/funeral doom band that embodies the infinite depths of human sorrow in sonic form. Blacker than the blackest black times infinity.

lol

Short and sweet review

will check out purely because of Tolkein inspired band name