Album Rating: 4.5

Let's not forget another post metal highlight "the king is dead" portion of Republic of Heaven from Fall of Efrafa

Album Rating: 4.5

The climax of Au Pays Natal is a real main character staring into the mirror with a gun to their head before deciding to set it down and go light a cigarette moment



It might be the most cathartic climax in all of metal

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> It might be the most cathartic climax in all of metal



I won't argue with that.



YOU FAILED ME

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YOUR DREAM DIED TODAY

this needs a remaster and the combined version needs to be on spotify

Album Rating: 4.5

Does it? Sounds fine to me, better than a lot of records that dropped in the past few years



I know its sacrilege but I don't listen to them combined, especially if I'm at the gym I want it to be as punchy as possible to cut through the ambient noise of shit-tier radio pop (I understand playing that at a mall but for real who the fuck is getting a pump going to dua lippa?)

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Yeah I've been saying for it ten years in this thread. IMO while combined makes this a one-of-a-kind audio experience, it actually lessens the impact of the songs. I almost never listen to it combined, and I've gotta be the biggest TGS dickrider around here lol.



Wouldn't remaster it for anything either, but it can be a bit shrill so I don't necessarily fault people who think that. I've been holding out the tiniest hope that they celebrate it this year, being as it's the 20th, but they strike me as pretentious as hell so I doubt it lol. Matt told me in 2010 that they wrote some of this shit in high school and don't even know how to play it anymore. In 2017 he told me basically the same thing, but acknowledged they were aware it had a certain prestige to it and that Au Pays Natal was the only song he could ever see them playing again.

Album Rating: 4.5

They forgot how to play it?

Seems like an album you could easily learn in a few days especially if you fucking wrote it lmao





Surely this material would bring the house down live at least compared to their limp dicked wanky newer shit



Nah, I'm all for bands playing what they want but this hits so much harder than anything else in their discography including the follow up



It was also one hell of an entrance to drop this monster without any demos as far as I know

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Yeah IDK, I don't think they ever really dug being lumped in with metal bands. That's pure armchair psychology though.

Album Rating: 3.5

God this is monolithic. The ebb and flow is proper interesting too. I’m definitely underrating this

Album Rating: 4.5

you are

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>I’m definitely underrating this



Lets gooooo

Album Rating: 4.5

Only way to listen to this is combined. Fight me.

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Album is the pinnacle of post metal. Gargantuan record.

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most cathartic climax in metal is so did we

Album Rating: 4.5

it’s up there

Album Rating: 4.5

So did we is my favourite song but this is more cathartic thanks to the vocals

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>Album is the pinnacle of post metal.



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Album Rating: 3.5

I think by far my least fave aspect of this album is the techy space prog riffing in "Absent" (most prominent example). I prefer the rawer, more angular parts. Some of the ambience is cool, just not sure it quite nails what I like in the ideal quantities

Ambitious album and a few of the bigger moments are absolutely massive, but there are still minor gripes that detract from the overall experience. Still, it's a great take on the genre and I can see why a few people love it more than me

also sorry teamster, not doing the double-disc thing. If someone calls this the "pinnacle of post metal", yet says you don't necessarily need it - then that's good enough for me

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The music wasn't composed with the intent to be listened to with a synced, second recording. Matt told me that himself - but it's also in the DVD they put out iirc. it was added on at the end because TL said yes. It's an accompaniment, written as a response to the music itself - an otherworldly, and recc'd experience to be sure, but the music is not impacted one bit by not listening combined. I will die on this hill.



@Demon - if I have a least favorite song here, it's Absent, and it would be for the techy-ascending guitar part you're talking about. IMO the rest of the song is monstrous. I get what you're saying though. I am endlessly impressed, jealous and at the time even intimidated by the fact that they put something this fucking good out as a first release, barely out of high school. Have you tried either of the next two albums? Just a hair less good, but each is just as impressive in different ways.