Album Rating: 5.0

yes

cute name

> there's a new burzum??


have u not seen my review L[

i thought we were friends

Album Rating: 4.7 | Sound Off

hello fren

Album Rating: 3.0

That was a funny ass review park

This month is reigniting the metal stan within me. Quality across the board.

cheers razor

Album Rating: 5.0

Closing in on those 100 pages

Album Rating: 4.0

I'll toast to that.



/toast

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Closing in on those 100 pages [2]

..yep,, because we(i) all need to get this and listen to it ;)

Album Rating: 4.5

100 pages and it's not even officially out yet lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah we've been waiting for this one

Album Rating: 4.5

@MementoMori

Though I think we’re using a different definition of phenomena—I grew up reading about it in the scientific context, where phenomena has an empirical component, so whatever is seen, touched, tasted, smelled, heard; which would exclude thoughts and feelings—it’s not terribly important as I think you understood what I meant anyway since, yes, the distinction I was making between things attributable to perceived external phenomena or things only concocted by our mind.

I also agree that “changing one’s mind” is every much as physical an act as changing the wall; but insofar as you have some control over your mind merely by the process of thinking, you can (potentially) change it by that thought, while changing the wall requires some external physical force, like a sledgehammer. It’s also true that the nature and properties of the wall don’t depend on what you think about it, and anything you think about it can’t be projected as being a property of the wall itself. That’s important to the musical discussion because it means that music, meaning those acoustic vibrations at frequencies in time, just IS, and whatever we think/feel about it can only be true relative to our brains (“it’s true that you think X about Y music”), but not about the music itself. Many times when people have strong feelings about something—music, or morality even—they act as if their feelings are saying something objectively true about something in external reality, even when it’s not.

Anyway, I’m not too hung up on the word “objective” beyond the fact that subjective/objective tends to be the terms people use to discuss this. I’m certainly open to another term in being able to make this distinction between mind-only things like thoughts/feelings and things we assume have some existence in external reality.

I also think we’re basically in agreement on this subject now, unless I’m missing anything we can move onto the culture/biology part.

Album Rating: 4.5

As far as this album being "accessible," anyone who thinks that is kidding themselves. It's accessible only relative to Ulcerate's previous work, which was still already less accessible than the vast majority of death metal, which was already less accessible than the vast majority of other musical genres out there.

Album Rating: 5.0

can't wait to jam this for the first time on release day

Album Rating: 4.5

For you guys talking about/wanting the vinyl: why? You do realize most modern vinyl is made from the digital masters, right? So all you're usually paying for is the bigger artwork and a medium that is measurably/demonstrably inferior to digital/CD. For those who think vinyl/vinyl rips have more dynamic range, you should know that dynamic range meters don't work on vinyl/vinyl rips. Good read/watch on the subject: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/measuring-vinyl-dynamic-range-complicated/

Album Rating: 4.5

people call it their most accessible, and it probably is, but just because they cleaned up and tightened their songwriting. Jamie proved us that he has 8 brains and can go berserk through a whole song a million times already, but I love how he toned it down on this record when it's not necessary and actually just gave a steady back beat on some more melodic and climactic parts. that kind of dynamics makes the music much more impactful



oh and the lovely production (for Ulcerate standards at least, or death metal standards in general) certainly helps a lot

Album Rating: 4.7 | Sound Off

--people call it their most accessible, and it probably is, but just because they cleaned up and tightened their songwriting.--



I think so. Parts of this is "cleaner", less saturated under the typical density of Ulceration [hehe]. Parts of this are downright melodeath at times, but with all the usual flair of a band doing what they know - and more importantly, in their prime.

"For you guys talking about/wanting the vinyl: why? You do realize most modern vinyl is made from the digital masters, right?"

This is true, but the physical limitations of vinyl often necessitate a different, less compressed master, as squared-off grooves will result in analogue distortion (which sounds much worse than digital clipping) and sometimes needle skipping/jumping. So bands and labels often have separate masters for each medium. If you've heard Shrines' LP and CD versions, they're night and day due to how brickwalled the CD is in comparison, even though both masters are digital in origin. Ideally we should just have uncompressed masters on both formats but alas.

Album Rating: 4.5

@Nocte yea that's true, the more melodic sound they were going for on this one probably demanded the whole thing to be a bit "cleaner" than usual.. if that makes sense lol



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