Album Rating: 4.0

Ah alright, the bm here is perfect so no complaints with that. Definitely gonna check them out soon.

Album Rating: 4.6

Like I said earlier in this thread, the s/t has some of the best drumming I've ever heard on a bm album. I think you'll dig it and Collapse both hard.

Album Rating: 3.0

Lol wow those riffs actually do sound a little like AILD Toaster, I didn't notice that while listening to it all the way through.

Yeah. I am hearing tons of melo-death influence with repeated listens.
It works great I think.

Album Rating: 4.0

As someone who spent months listening to but melodeath in high school, the riffs hit here pretty damn hard.

Agreed. Out of all of the metal albums I've heard this year, I see this growing on me the most. I'm from around the same area
culturally speaking (southern WV), and I love what this guy does with the bluegrass influences. That goes especially hard for
the Long Road tracks.

Album Rating: 3.0

I hated the bluegrass parts

Album Rating: 4.6

The bluegrass influence on this and Kentucky is awesome and refreshing idk that might just be me.

Really? I could see how you might feel like it's random or non cohesive (and I may agree to a certain extent), but it doesn't hinder the experience at all for me as of right now.

Album Rating: 3.0

Idk, it just sounds kinda amateurish to me. Or I'm just really not a fan of bluegrass.

He's got the chops man, trust me. Aha
That's cool though. Bluegrass isn't even that big in the areas around my location. It's seems like pretty polarising genre.

Album Rating: 3.0

I do love the banjo solo in Ensiferum's song "Stone Cold Metal", but that's hardly bluegrass haha

Album Rating: 4.0

It's on a similar level in terms of quality.

Album Rating: 4.6

It's better tbh. Just my opinion.

Album Rating: 4.0

Same. I was just trying to gauge it on a more general level. I mean I feel the songwriting (apart for the awkward transition between Long Road I and II) is better here.

Album Rating: 4.5

i love the melodeath riffing/leads sprinkled over this. I feel every different musical element (bluegrass, melodeath, neofolk etc.) are not overused and greatly incorporated into the songs. Jammed this like 5 times in 2 days, its awesome.



Have to listen to his earlier recs

Album Rating: 3.5

I don't really like I think it's the Long Road Pt 1 with the acoustic bluegrass jam session? Stuff like that is too energetic and happy for this type of music. The bluegrass on the end of "The Death of Baldur" was fitting because it was folky but there was no hill billy fiddle making it sound awkward, whereas some of the bluegrass here is just odd. I think the folk sections should be rather somber and subdued on an album like this.

Album Rating: 4.5

At first, I found these bluegrass sections to be a little forced upon the listener, but as i listened more, i found them quite fitting. Also, I find the bass-driven mellow section in Long Road Pt 2 to be really dark and relevant

Album Rating: 4.0

It's something that technically "shouldn't fit" but I honestly don't mind it. And I couldn't stand Kentucky where that stuff was really overbearing.

Album Rating: 4.6

It was way more overbearing on Kentucky agreed. He seems to dial it back a little more here, but the influence is still obvious.