Album Rating: 5.0

Agreed so hard Mars, this still their best by planetary margin, but their more straightforward efforts rule too on their own.



Early Mourning and Extinguished Innocence are prob my favs on the new one

Album Rating: 4.0

This is fire, blimey what a crushing and monolithic album

Album Rating: 5.0

I absolutely adore this thing, a masterpiece for the ages

Album Rating: 4.0

Is the prelude considered an essential part of this? What’s the story there?

It seems decent enough. Hell of a gargantuan runtime with it included though

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah, the pacing on this beast is marvellous!



Doom / post / sludge done right. Suffocating atmosphere, v bleak and dark but not without hints of respite (however slight they may be). Removing the prelude (which is cool by itself) makes this a 74 min single song behemoth, which usually feels futile and repetitive to a fault tbh, yet this doesn’t

Album Rating: 5.0

The prelude is very extra as far i can tell, it's not in the original release, you'll do fine without it



"Doom / post / sludge done right. Suffocating atmosphere, v bleak and dark but not without hints of respite (however slight they may be). Removing the prelude (which is cool by itself) makes this a 74 min single song behemoth, which usually feels futile and repetitive to a fault tbh, yet this doesn’t"



Exactly ! it doesn't feel like it drags, it keeps progressing slowly but steadily.



This is a concept album about one of the worst roman emperors, so i like to think about it as a deeply bleak and dark storytelling (even if i don't understand a single word), when you acknowledge the backstory it pushes the whole atmosphere even further, it is absolutely amazing

currently reinitiating my 52 recs list, after almost 3 years of failure, and this magic is what I was on the cusp of?

*tears*

SO SO filthy and SO good. Ugh.

Album Rating: 4.0

Good lord this is MASSIVE.