Album Rating: 3.5

Wish I dug this as much as a lot of you guys. Its good stuff but not nearly as groundbreaking for me.

Album Rating: 4.5

It just has something that I can't really define making it special. It clicks but why is still kindof a mystery to me. On paper this shouldn't work at all for me for so many reasons, but it does and that alone makes it special.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

It Does Not Follow is one of the coolest tracks of the year.

Album Rating: 4.5

Had to bump this, the music is just that phenomenal. I wish the vocalist toned it down with the wailing and quirkiness by like 50%, but I really like the harsh vocals he does.

Album Rating: 4.0

Sometimes he goes full Claypool.

Album Rating: 5.0

The wailing and quirkyness are among those things that makes this shine.

Album Rating: 5.0

quirkiness*

Album Rating: 5.0

Thanks, Pika

Album Rating: 4.5

It does nothing for me unfortunately. It also makes A Umbra Omega unlistenable because of it. Luckily, almost everything else here makes up for it and it isn't prevalent enough to make me walk away from the record completely.

Album Rating: 4.0

Umbra has a different (main) vocalist. I adore the vocals on that one and think it is a significantly better record than this.

Album Rating: 4.0

as a false black metal fan, this really appeals to me. catchy, groovy, clean production. vocals provide this fascinating off-kilter vibe. one of my 2023 favorites

Album Rating: 4.5

"Umbra has a different (main) vocalist. I adore the vocals on that one and think it is a significantly better record than this."



A Umbra Omega is one of the best black metal records of all time in my book. It's actually a Top 10 album of all time for me, so I agree with you, but this one is still a monster. The replayability factor is very rewarding with this one.

This band is just goating black metal rn, their songwriting, quirkiness and musicianship is unparalleled in the scene. They are above everyone else by a margin. They are pulling what Deathspell Omega did in the 00s. This may be my AOTY by an edge over Horrendous this year

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

It's not really a Dodheimsgard alb unless you have theater kid ringleader mental breakdown vocals on top of everything tbh

Album Rating: 4.5

I always loved "theater kid ringleader mental breakdown vocals" then. Nothing better than quirky vocalists giving it all for the cause. Bands with crazy vocalists worth mentioning: A Forest of Stars, Bethlehem, Shining (SWE), Dodheimsgard, Silencer, Devin Townsend... New additions appreciated!

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Well yeah peep the rating lol, I love some good manic vocals.



Unless it's like fuckin Kaonashi. I'm still not over that concert lmao

Album Rating: 4.5

I guess I just don't get the appeal of them at all. I did manage to get myself to the point where they stopped bothering me (at least on this record) though

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

They're a perfect complement to Dodheimsgard's weird post-punk-meets-space-opera-black-metal approach. With how liberally they toy with genre expectations and sounds, it feels appropriate to have an esoteric vocalist at the helm to purvey the madness. There's a lot of personality that they bring to proceedings and it imbues soundscapes with more of an emotional payoff.

Album Rating: 4.5

Indeed.

The closing track here has no hint of metal. It's a modern classical piece of music yet it's one of the highlights here, very cinematic and coherent with the rest of the album, and a perfect way to end it. You know you are in front of top class musicians when they can pull something like that in a metal album. It's like 'The Battle of Chamdo' in Colored Sands by Gorguts. To place something so well composed and different inside a metal album and make it work smoothly is pure class.

Album Rating: 4.5

late to the party here, nice metal

Album Rating: 4.5

This was pretty solidly my AOTY but then Slow came in and sucker punched the shit out of it.