Album Rating: 4.5

^ Easily one of my favorite outros of all time.

Album Rating: 4.5

Sevengill summed it up pretty well in her (I think) review. It's probably my favorite Isis song, actually. Maybe behind Carry or Red Sea.

Album Rating: 5.0

Why does it have 300 votes in the allgenres chart, but 900 votes in the metal chart?!

Album Rating: 3.5

sputnik bug it happens for all album

Album Rating: 5.0

which is the right one?

Album Rating: 4.5

obviously the metal chart is from the future

lol @ all the hipster kids who apparently care very much about letting everyone know how much they disagree
with all the mainstream fags voting along the average.

inb4 "I dont really care that much" while repeatedly posting into the thread for the album

Album Rating: 2.5

They actually sound like Beyond Creation on this record. Plus you can easily notice that classical violins has been overused. And that can be boring point a bit.

Album Rating: 4.0

overused violins [123] take the first few minutes of Pyrrhic for example, just a coupleof generic melodeath riffs and meaningless violin solos. then after almost 4 minutes there's that cool melodic riff, but transition to it is so awkward. actually the transition out of it is too, whole riff seems really out of place. looks like they're using violins to cover up their not-so-good songwriting skills and just prolong the songs and make them seem more progressive when they really aren't.

I still really like Blackholes though, and they can surely write some good riffs. violins are great too (that intro track is fabulous), but they'd be a lot more effective if they weren't used so often

Album Rating: 4.5

Bookends are beyond words for me. I love that twisted sound, that trembling, agonizing vibe. Even people that would otherwise ignore or even find the album to be avoidable, accpet that it's really well done. The third part of Painters of the Tempest is even more melodic and dark, so I'd give it a 5 as a song, or at least a 4.5. Now, PotT pt.II and Colossus Pt. II are both a 4.3 for me in general, a 4.5 at parts. Pyrrhic is a 4 or even a 3.8. So, generally, a 4.5 describes best my ranking...

Album Rating: 3.0

"Now, PotT pt.II and Colossus Pt. II are both a 4.3 for me in general, a 4.5 at parts. Pyrrhic is a 4 or even a 3.8."



lol jesus

Album Rating: 4.5

lol, buddha

Album Rating: 2.5

I've never listened to this band before, but about halfway through I can see why it's so popular here, similar to Opeth in a way. Not my cup of tea at all, a bit what I would consider radio friendly / mainstream metal in style and sound. Cheers to all who dig this sort of stuff though. On a side-note, the black metal tag really should be taken off this band imo, unless their old content fits the bill. This sure does not.

Album Rating: 5.0

Pyrrhic is the only track with a black metal vibe, similar to xenoflux. Definetely Portal of I

was pretty much black metal .

Album Rating: 4.5

Pyrrhic's second half is gorgeous.

Album Rating: 2.5

@SpiritCrusher2, totally agreed.

Album Rating: 2.5

Maybe I would enjoy Portal of I better then if it's more Black metalish - will give it a try.

Album Rating: 2.5

I've listened to most of Portal of I and there is nothing black metal about this either lol. Not saying that's bad, it is what it is, but there shouldn't be a "black metal" tag associated with this band IMO. If anything trade it for power metal label or something with all the clean vocals

lol what
clean vocals = power metal, got it

band is prog/dm, simple. influences of bm but agreed they shouldn't be labelled bm.

Album Rating: 2.5

meh, of course they aren't typical power metal but if there is going to be a 3rd tag on it I would still say make it power instead of BM. Clean vocals don't equal power metal but it is a big component. But yes, overall, I would say just prog/dm is what it should be.