Album Rating: 5.0
This album is still their best but honestly I love all their work.
One unique thing from this release that I miss from their later stuff though are the higher pitched screams/shrieks. On later albums, they don't hit in quite the same way as they do on this album. Like in Tapestry, when the screams kick in again around 7:50 is just 🧑🍳🤌
Can't tell if it's the production or just inevitable changes to Marc's voice over the years.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Just listened to this (and, by extension, NeO) for the first time, and I've gotta say, it's quite good. Really solid prog/death/black metal with some avant-garde and post-metal elements. With that said, I do think it's a bit overlong and riff-salad-y in parts; the production doesn't always help either, making the heavier parts sound really brickwalled and overbearing at times. Still, I was quite impressed with this... I'm curious about how Citadel will be, considering how condensed the runtime is compared to this
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Album Rating: 4.5
Citadel is prob my fave nowadays, the production is better for a start.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, I'm listening to that mammoth first track right now, and I already like it a bit better than what's on here tbh
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Album Rating: 4.5
Painters pt II, that song will blow your mind man.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yep, just finished that part and it absolutely ripped. If the rest of the album goes this hard, I'm already predicting a 4.5 rating
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Album Rating: 4.0
Holy shit, Reveries from the Stained Glass Womb might be just as good. Definitely starting to regret not checking these guys out sooner
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Album Rating: 4.0
surprised you never listened until now
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ngl, even as a prog metal fan, I had the preconception that they'd be an overbearing riff salad-type band with a lack of songwriting focus - especially given Portal of I's daunting tracklist. But I was pleasantly surprised at how engaging the project was... and now that I'm wrapping up Citadel, I actually prefer it to this one
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Portal of I vs. Lies of P vs. Life of Pi
FIGHT!
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Album Rating: 4.0
The thinking man's Opeth, this album is absolutely awesome, bringing all the progressive mastery of that band with some really nice technical flourishes, and even more musical diversity. This is so good.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yea, amazing album
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Album Rating: 4.0
"The thinking man's Opeth"
more like the pompous man's opeth
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Album Rating: 4.0
The idealistic boy's Opeth.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"more like the pompous man's opeth"
Nah, they have much more intricacy and layering to their songwriting than Opeth, who are typically quite straightforward, they just sound amazing and have good structure to their writing. Ne Obliviscaris blow them away in terms of intricacy and how thought-provoking their songs can be.
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Album Rating: 5.0
this album is only more intricate than Opeth because it took like 90 years to make it. Everything else they've made pales in comparison to Opeth
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yeah citadel was a massive drop in quality
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Album Rating: 5.0
this album is very captivating for what it is but everything else they've made is honestly pretty boring and underwhelming
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Album Rating: 4.0
Citadel and Exul are both as good, if not better, than this imo. They really haven't released a boring or bad album
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citadel is trash
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