Album Rating: 5.0

don't think there's another metal album that can come close to touching this honestly

Album Rating: 4.5

Guy Man - spot on summary

Album Rating: 4.5

Artuma I agree it is great. But I like the breaks you get in Isis CoL and Neurosis - there are passages where there is some calm in the vocals and they feel perfect. Some respite before further onslaught, I just really enjoy that rhythm and fluctuation. I think that’s why I’m enjoying the new direction seen in Utopioid. The cleans may be indistinct and smothered by the production but I like the overall impact it has on the atmosphere and pacing.

Album Rating: 3.5

this is solid but i dont think ive ever heard a post metal album above a 3.5 tbh and im not sure i ever will

Album Rating: 4.5

As a genre it generally hits the sweet spot for me. Discovering Neurosis and especially the sun that never sets and eye of every storm - that’s a listening experience beyond a listening experience. Some easy 5.0’s for me. They were my first post metal band I heard and remain at the top for me.

Album Rating: 4.5

"But I like the breaks you get in Isis CoL and Neurosis - there are passages where there is some calm in the vocals and they feel perfect."



there really isn't a lot of calm in col though?

Album Rating: 5.0

CoL bring the apocalypse with their vox

Album Rating: 4.5

Strangely I find CoL a relaxing listening experience. It’s like wave after wave that reaches so deep that I am left with a deep sense of calm. Maybe it’s more their music, the density and mastery of atmosphere that invokes this deep emotional state that I relate to being calm - or maybe it’s just exhaustion! Either way, CoL can take me places that Rosetta just can’t quite reach. As much as I have been increasingly enjoying Rosetta of Late, albums like Salvation exist on another level entirely.

Album Rating: 3.5

I remember someone complaining about the lack of clean vox in CoL’s music (lol), but yeah they bring the ambience when they want to - Salvation especially.

Album Rating: 4.5

It’s always seems to be a contentious issue - clean vox in post metal. CoL do it sparingly but when they do it, it works. I am enjoying the clean vox in recent Rosetta releases.



CoL really are the masters of ambience - the calm and the storm done to perfection.

Probably my favorite atmosphere/overall feel from a metal album ever. This'll never be topped, by them or any other outfit. Wake/Lift rules too though.

SLAPS

Fuck yeah, rating?

It's been a while, but this and Determinism have always been my favourite albums by these guys.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

can't go wrong with any of the first three.



even the EPs they showed up on during this era were godlike. And that Homesick cover holy fuck - I was finally vindicated for saying that Disintegration-era The Cure were basically the heaviest thing ever.

Album Rating: 4.5

When this album gets a comment Guyman phone goes off, a bat signal glows in the sky and smoke signals rise into the atmosphere ...

Album Rating: 5.0

This is still a top 5 album for me.

Album Rating: 4.5

shreks

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

yeah I pretty much live here.



The shit is 15 years old now and opportunities to talk about it have been few and far between the entire time. I take every chance I can lol.

I am very intrigued with this.