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mechamagica
March 25th 2025


656 Comments


> Uhhhh your pie is fill of indie pop, emo and J-pop and you 5'd Yuele. Idk why you think you'd like this band lmao.

I've liked this band for 20 years including this album but I can stop just for you

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
March 25th 2025


114937 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

You literally said "completely unlikable band" lmao. How the hell would I know that?

mechamagica
March 25th 2025


656 Comments


I said unkillable

mechamagica
March 25th 2025


656 Comments


I honestly didn't really like the previous record so the fact that this one is great feels even better to me

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
March 25th 2025


114937 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

You don't dig Existence? I think that one is my fav of the past 4 lol.

mechamagica
March 25th 2025


656 Comments


it's alright, but its style is heavily indexed in outright metal riffage and pyrotechnics, which for me is not what the band excels at. the other three come about as close as possible to what I think is the height of their discography (the run from Dusk to Midian) because they're good in all the right places

but of course Existence is very musically competent so I don't really fault anyone for digging it

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
March 25th 2025


114937 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

Its more brutal than mostly everything they've ever done while still keeping that vampyric goth atmosphere. Crawling King Chaos, Black Smoke Curling From the Lips of War, The Dying of the Embers, and Suffer Our Dominion are some of the heaviest songs they've ever mae.

0GuyMan0
March 25th 2025


5603 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

And here I thought Cryptoriana was accepted as the ace of the new era so far

Galbador
March 25th 2025


800 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Damn so this is out. Nice review!

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
March 25th 2025


114937 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

Thanks bro!!

Titan
March 26th 2025


26425 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This album is incredible, upped my rating to a 4.5, a 5 is probably coming

zakalwe
March 26th 2025


41924 Comments


Hahaha. What a lad.

zakalwe
March 26th 2025


41924 Comments


When Misery Was a Stranger is an amazing way to round this album off.


DDDeftoneDDD
March 26th 2025


23512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Been spinning this one many times. Wasn't expecting the heaviness tbh

Muzz79
March 27th 2025


3933 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yknow this reminds me of the first Devilment album The Great & Secret Show. Simpler song structures with riffs taking centre stage but retaining that gothic aesthetic

DType
March 27th 2025


3269 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"I now confess, I am possessed" is arguably the sickest moment in this whole album

veninblazer
March 31st 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

hawks do you have dyslexia? not even being mean, un-killable and unlikable are much different things haha. anyways I'm vibing but i feel like it's not really progressing their sound, it's pretty much like a TBDM situation where they're a well oiled machine bringing out the jams and this is another well-oiled album

Demon of the Fall
March 31st 2025


38990 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

to be fair “unkillable” takes my millennial brain a moment to process, as it seems like newfangled (likely gaming-influenced? - info needed) phrasing that I find cumbersome to parse immediately. I may be wrong tho, it has occasionally been known to happen

anyway, I could see defaulting to unlikeable at first glance, especially unhyphenated (the original comment contained no hyphen)

zakalwe
March 31st 2025


41924 Comments


Millennial.
Christ.

Demon of the Fall
March 31st 2025


38990 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

‘87. Apparently so. Wife is technically gen x tho, so I’m an old man by proxy

(I’m just checking she isn’t seeing me type this… she is a “young gen x”, haha)



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