Album Rating: 1.5
"What I remember reading about this album back in the day, was that At the Gates were in dire straits while working for it, because their earlier albums had gone unnoticed at the time"
Again, this isn't surprising. They lost their strongest songwriter and musician who had the strongest vision among them all, effectively resorting to scraping the bottom of the barrel with a subpar glorified EP with Terminal Spirit Disease and then Slaughter of the Soul which was hardly any better in that respect.
Their lack of prior success is more a testament to how criminally unrecognized their work from Gardens of Grief to With Fear was and still is today.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
ok elitist
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Album Rating: 3.0
Explain how what he said is elitist.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
relax lion boi it's locker room talk. guys disagree, they beat each other up, then they become best friends and go out for some brewskis and bitches
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Album Rating: 1.5
"ok elitist"
aw shucks you got me
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Album Rating: 4.5
"Antichrist isn't really deserving of the dismissal anyway, I'll save that for...others."
:3
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
early dismissal back in catholic school was the best cus i'd get there by 7 and leave by 11:45 so i can play oddworld abe's odysee on the ps1. good times
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Album Rating: 1.5
That game was really cool, yeah
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Album Rating: 4.0
@Casavir
You have every right to dismiss this, but every band tries to do its best with its current lineup, so there's that.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
yo i'm glad i'm not the only person on planet earth who knew what that game was fvck yeah dude \m/
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Album Rating: 1.5
"You have every right to dismiss this, but every band tries to do its best with its current lineup, so there's that."
This is true. However, I'm not convinced they came even close to attempting their best with this. Guys like Anders and Tomas were still responsible for writing stuff like Windows and The Architects without needing Svensson as support. Those songs dwarf anything on this album so they obviously could do better. They just gave up on trying which pretty much tracks since they disbanded not long after this.
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Album Rating: 4.2
"Explain how what he said is elitist."
"glorified EP"
format snobbery < elitism
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Album Rating: 1.5
" format snobbery < elitism"
Yeah, and the best songs are just the live versions of tracks from the previous album lol. There's nothing snobby about it.
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Album Rating: 4.2
then why does it make the slightest bit of difference whether it's an EP or an LP
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Album Rating: 3.0
At least they're not In Flames AMIRITE CASAVIR
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Album Rating: 1.5
It's just kind of ridiculous when the best song from the original tracks by far is the instrumental that was likely a leftover from With Fear's sessions and live recordings of songs from the prior two albums. I've similarly called Defenders of the Faith a glorified EP because of the sheer nosedive in quality in its second half.
"At least they're not In Flames AMIRITE CASAVIR"
Yeah, at least At the Gates have two albums I'd consider essential listening.
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Album Rating: 4.0
i feel like this discussion is incomplete without sitar even though i've never seen him in this thread
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Album Rating: 4.5
I like music : )
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Album Rating: 4.5
The phrase “let's just enjoy music” is such a weak mindset. You are ok with what happened, not being critical, imperfection of a craft. When you stop getting angry after listening, you’ve lost twice. There’s always something to criticize, and always room for nitpicking, never settle.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Poser mindset agreed
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