Album Rating: 4.0

I know, but I can't produce any memory of it right now. Except for Symphony of Destruction, and frankly, I wasn't impressed.

metallica: S&M

Emperor: the symphomic thingy comes from the keys, but is still symphonic

Dimmu *shudders* borgir: yeah. not that good, but they still do it.

Mirrorthrone

actually, quite a number of BM bands uses symphonic elements. their mostly MIDI though.

Album Rating: 2.0

Excellent review Coke! Your review made me download this album and I must say it is a change of pace in the metal world. Sounds a little goofy for extreme metal in some places, but the orchestrations are well thought out and the music is intense and refreshing. These guys are now on top of my 'to buy' list!

antihippy, Dimmu Borgir rule with symphonic use in their music. This Message Edited On 06.04.07

Can someone please give me a link to hear this album? Or possibly send some songs to me via msn?

I actually just finally found their myspace and listened to "Inked In Blood", it's a pretty cool song, deffinitely different, vocals are well done. Btw, very nice review

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

symphony put together with some metal music sounds intriguing.

Eh, Cocaine, is there any way you could maybe send me some of the songs off of this album? I see no other way of getting them soon.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

You could wait until it's RELEASED.

I suppose I may have to, just checking to see if there was any way around it. There stuff sounds real good

i think there's a bug on this, because I can't vote for this album, can anyone fix plz?

he's a staff reviewer. apparantly they have no need for votes.

no i wanna give the album a rating, not actually vote for the review

It doesn't come out until the 12th.

it probably leaked or something.

What?

oh thats why, and yep it leaked, im going to buy it though, wagnerian symphonies rock my socksThis Message Edited On 06.06.07

Dude. Wagner never wrote symphonies. He only wrote Gesamptkunstwek.

dude

I listened to the tracks on their myspace and the whole Wagner comparison, other than the intially goofed nomenclature, is completely bogus. What really defined Wagner's style was that he experimented a lot with harmony and chromaticisms. He'd have dissonances resolve into other dissonances and purposefully subvert tonality. The songs I have heard are completely tonal throughout, and in fact, pretty obvious in their tonality. This is just typical metal, stuck in a rut of harmonic minor and constant double time drumming with no interesting Wagnerian connections. All they did was synthesize a few horn descents on that one song "Inked in Black" and call it a day. Terrible.

he mentioned wagner once, and not even in the actual review