Pretty sure Willie would have given this more than a 3.5 if it was winter, js

Album Rating: 3.5

PRetty good.Chanting cleans are a little out of place me thinks. could of stuck with just cleans rather.

The fact that you wrote that this band -"knew to avoid the extended song lengths and meandering structures associated with Opeth and instead chose to stick to creating epic tracks that are also compact and instant" - makes me want to give you a good smack in the head. There is nothing wrong with the structures or long song lengths in any of Opeth's songs. If your a musician, it is easy to comprehend and enjoy the long song structures (i.e the ending of Deliverance or A Fair Judgement (which by the way has some of the most hanutingly beautiful guitar passages I've ever heard).

Still, a good review and I will be downloading this tonight.

Album Rating: 4.0

An excellent album, I would say. Sometimes a bit too similiar to Amorphis, but with more balls. Barren Earth was also very solid live, much better than Amorphis when I saw them a year ago, may I add.

you may not add

Amorphis sucks

dre.

Album is meh

Album Rating: 4.0

This album is bloody brilliant.

Album Rating: 4.0

Liking it more and more tbh.

holy shit, I love the STS vocalist. I need this.

Album Rating: 3.5

Heard "The Ritual of Dawn" on last.fm radio a few months and decided to give the full album shot. Caught between a 3.5 and a 4.

Forgot about this album, but then came back to it when I was compiling my top 25 of the year. Really good stuff.

Album Rating: 3.5

Actually yeah i'll probably raise my rating too. There's a lot of really nice grooves here.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yet you still don't 5 Silent Waters... I hate you bloc...

Silent Waters is definitely not a 5.

"Forlorn Waves" rules.

Album Rating: 3.5

I was about to say the same about Forlorn Waves too, Josh.

Haha yeah, Forlorn Waves kicks ass.




Baph, Amorphis suuuuuuuuuuuucks

Album Rating: 4.0

You suck

Album Rating: 3.5

I love Silent Waters but all of their other albums aren't too special besides a handful of songs. This is like a better version of old Amorphis imo.

Album Rating: 3.2

Pretty sure Willie would have given this more than a 3.5 if it was winter, js