This band sounds very little like Emperor, outside of the obvious "it has harsh vocals/cleans/blast beats/is melodic black metal."

Emperor destroys this band 7 ways to sunday

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I love this, but it's not up there with Emperor.

emperor is a great band and this band is average

i will survive, i will survive

Album Rating: 2.5

This is decent, most certainly epic, but I'm not finding it all that original or engaging.

People would gladly compare this to Opeth, but not Emperor?

Album Rating: 4.5

The principal problem with this album in regards to metal is that *IT ISN'T*. It's just not metal.



Without running the analytical Fast Fourier Transform, I'd eyeball this album as no more than 35% metal – and that's probably being generous. The remainder is a somnambulent admixture of Tim Burton-esque filmscape worship ("Aquatic Deathgate Existence"), blatant acoustic Opeth emulation ("Winter's End", the middle third of "Rebirth of an Old Nation"), and familiar campfire-fed Cascadian Black Metal hippery ("Deus Absconditus: Part I", "Land of Snow and Final"). None of those things are metal.



The 35% that's left just isn't enough. So why do I like this as much as I do? Desperate nostalgia. I miss Emporer. I miss Opeth. That's a pretty awful basis on which to rate albums... but there it is. With Emporer and Opeth either decapitated or simply moribund, Xanthochroid was the closest fix in 2012: a cover band without the covers.



If that isn't a bleak indictment of modern-day progressive death and black metal, I don't know what is.

Album Rating: 4.5

Album Rating: 2.5

Yes this album is indeed uhh

Album Rating: 4.5

This album is hypnotizing me, I want to listen to other stuff but I can't stop listening to this.

It was good at first but now I can't even sit through a whole song.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Still think it rules.

Album Rating: 4.0

better with every listen

Album Rating: 4.5

Still really digging this. Lost count of the listens.

if i cant make myself listen to an album more than twice i cant give it a 3 or anything higher.. just how it is. this isnt a bad album by any stretch of the imagination, its just a little too... theatrical, for me

Album Rating: 5.0

so i listened to this when it came out a solid # of times, it was kinda good, 3 or 3.5.. listened again tonight and it really clicked, enjoying it a lot. Sometimes you have to be in the right mood for something to reach you, I guess. Cool album.

Album Rating: 4.5

Still think this is some awesome BM coming from my homeland, the vast frozen wastelands of Orange County, CA!

Was really close to putting this on my list. Haven't jammed it enough damn...I should do so soon.

Album Rating: 4.5

So nice to finally have a good local band after having shit like Avenged Sevenfold and Reel Big Fish coming from my hometown lol