Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah Portal, this year is shaping up to be in the Top 3 since the year 2000

Album Rating: 4.5

2016 was my favorite year (for metal at least) in recent memory. I have one 5 maybe every other year or so but I had 3 that year (and a bunch of 4.5s).



But just in general yeah, not even halfway through the year and I'm overwhelmed with quality stuff.



Also, new track is better than the first single. Amazing stuff.

Album Rating: 4.5

final 1:30ish of ashen hearts is heckin sick. hoggard you madman

Album Rating: 4.0

2013 was the Big Year for me. Echoes of Battle, Das Tor, Roots, Pelagial (and Collective Oblivion), Omega Arcane, Coal, Sunbather, Seventh Swamphony, Born of Slime, No Morrow Shall Dawn, Colored Sands, Vermis, Habitual Levitations, Bu-Tik, À L'Âme Enflammée, Surgical Steel, To Sail Black Waters, and Asa are all like, top-150ish all time albums for me.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah just off the top of my head, 2013 seems the best in the last decade+ for me. I'd really have to go back though and see what came out between 2017-2020 because fuck I can't remember

Album Rating: 4.0

2016 for me. several of my top 50 OAT came out that year, along with a bunch of other stuff i still jam pretty often

"Definitely has more of Stare Into Death vibes than the other single. Kind of on the fence about it. There's just so much happening at one time it becomes too dense to tease apart."

That's what I'm loving the most about it. The one concern I had about Cutting was the band going too far in the melodic direction but it seems like they've retained the melody while bumping the intensity back up to about where it was on Shrines. So much interplay between the guitars it's unreal 🙏🙏

Album Rating: 5.0

Word word

Album Rating: 5.0

Hoggerd has nine arms confirmed

Album Rating: 4.0

Nine, ten, or eleven, somewhere around there

Album Rating: 5.0

I want a full guitar instructional from him.

Album Rating: 4.0

Would be dope to see how he plays stuff live with the looper and all.

Album Rating: 4.0

I checked the first single and thought it was lit

encouraged by what I’ve heard about the 2nd, but may go back to my usual stance of pretending singles don’t exist

preserving the potential greatness or some shit!

Album Rating: 4.5

the t/t here is one of the best songs they've ever written and it's a huge reason why i have this at a 4.5 instead of a 4

to flow is just absolutely ridiculous

this band is not on the same level as the rest

Album Rating: 4.5

If the two singles are any indication it's gonna be their best album. Much more immediate than this one, which admittedly took awhile for me to really get into.



Love the more melodic approach on these new songs while still keeping it m/

New song might be better than anything on here, must investigate further

Album Rating: 4.0

no way?

okay now I have to check

Album Rating: 5.0

New single fucking slaps.



Idk if I can wait until June for the whole album damn

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah,I preordered the vinyl and can't freakin' wait. SIDABS sounded so much better on vinyl than on digital platforms, so I want to enjoy it in all its awesomeness from the get go!