Crack the skye shits all over this and it's not even close. This is good tho.

Album Rating: 3.5

Wait, it's been 20 years since this first came out?



Jeez...

Album Rating: 4.5

"Crack the skye shits all over this and it's not even close. This is good tho."



LOL



Capillarian Crest and Colony of Birchmen are UNTOUCHABLES.

Album Rating: 4.5

yea this one’s their creative peak imo, every single track here delivers



and the ways they incorporated the features are so awesome

Album Rating: 4.0

close but no cookie



Leviathan, CtS, EoS and the new one are comfortably above this

Album Rating: 4.5

"EoS and the new one are comfortably above this"

these people are allowed to vote

Album Rating: 4.5

I’ve been finding it hard to get into their later stuff personally, but man these first four were magical

Album Rating: 4.0

yes, we are my friend, read it and weep

Album Rating: 5.0

Love the new one but nah, no way is it or EOS remotely approaching this

Album Rating: 5.0

'Crack the skye shits all over this and it's not even close. This is good tho.'



It's obviously a taste thing. For me, I really don't like Crack the Skye much at all. It signalled their journey into much more conservative music. I do like Ghost of Karelia though.

Album Rating: 4.0

I wouldn't say 'conservative' necessarily but it is less experimental and embraces well-trodden prog rock tropes more emphatically, whilst moving away from their sludgy roots & that is definitely a reason to prefer one over the other

the quartet of albums post-CtS delve into the territory of various watered-down incarnations of their predecessors. I mean EoS is just 'what if CtS was underwhelming', c'mon. I guess The Hunter has elements of this wilder era despite being a more accessible package overall, but it just fails to deliver