i stroke my neckbeard with pride while embracing the alf bro
in regards to your last line: reign in blood inspired shitloads of killer bands and in many ways RAISED the bar
this literally did the opposite
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Album Rating: 5.0
Allow me to get philosophical. Every once in a while, there comes a time when the bar can no longer be raised, and thus the only logical outcomes is for it to be lowered.
Think of Metallica's Kill 'em All. Really, it is a logical successor to Diamond Head's Lightning to the Nations, even though it is SIMPLER and more watered-down, not more complex.
Cryptopsy released None so Vile, arguably the pinnacle of extreme metal, in 1996 (?). To this day, few, if any albums have managed to replicate its insanity. SotS came out in 1995, and the band was evidently aware that metal just couldn't get more extreme at that point, so they toned things down. And it worked. That's how I see things.
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everything that made at the gates interesting is gone on this album
really thats all there is to it
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Album Rating: 1.0
lol this albums about as extreme as soccer
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headphones this album doesn't even have any teeth at all
stick to gardens of grief and the first 2 LPs
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which album??
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the red in the sky is ours and with fear i kiss the burning darkness are both incredible and yet both extremely different
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Album Rating: 5.0
everything that made at the gates interesting is gone on this album
really thats all there is to it
Oh, explain to me what was interesting about their previous albums. Was it the "unorthodox" and "artsy" song structures? Or maybe the craptastic production? Or the fact that they are playing their instruments over what their abilities allow?
The site's ratings speak enough for themselves. You're in the special minority thinking that their first 2 LPs were better than SotS.
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EVERYTHING is interesting about those albums - the guitars, to start, and how they play complimentary riffs, one mixed to left stereo and one mixed to right, to psychedelically rape your psyche, the RIFFS themselves... ripe with dark emotion, downright creepy at times - the drumming, some of the most interesting metal drumming ever, the subtle ways he switches up the patterns to the same rhythm - the chaos, the haunting atmosphere, THE LYRICS! the vocals ... the artwork ... everything about those albums is powerful... it just goes over the heads of most - listen to Neverwhere, listen to The Break of Autumn, listen to Primal Breath, listen to the band's title track(from Gardens of Grief)!!!! and then listen to blinded by fear, i mean c'mon there's no comparison, none at all, end of discussion
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Album Rating: 2.5
The site's ratings speak enough for themselves. You're in the special minority thinking that their first 2 LPs were better than SotS.
or could it be that people on this site are fucking clueless when it comes to metal
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DING DING DING
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Album Rating: 4.5
I could never quite get into TRISTIO, but everything else by ATG is pretty good. To this day, I still have no clue why people crap on SOTS. It is a classic, and I look forward to seeing some songs from it live when I go to Maryland Deathfest.
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lol xckyle returns
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lost interest in this band by this stage
red in the sky is one of the best albums ever
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album's good but has the staying power of a stomped maggot. three records beforehand are way better
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lol this albums about as extreme as soccer
lol i laughed
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it slaughtered my soul
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Album Rating: 4.0
its football cunt n8
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actually its "futbal" if your hispanic but ehh fuck it.
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It's football but americans like to steal everything including names
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