Album Rating: 5.0

End the motherfuckin hope agreed

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah unsurprisingly this is one of their most "dynamic" sounding albums, yet it's still too loud for their own sake. I hope someday we get more dynamic sounding versions in digital format. That vinyl of Shrines sounded so good...

Album Rating: 5.0

How do they play some of this live?



I always thought they had a lot of back tracks since Jamie plays to a click(?). But at this tour it looked like Hoggard did a lot of stuff with a loop pedal too.

Album Rating: 3.5

Drawn into the next void is low-key the best song here. It brings some dynamism to the album when it most needs it.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Shrines has their worst production, but some of their best songs." Shrines is their best by a wide margin to me. The vinyl master is way better than the compressed af mess they released on CD

This also has a better vinyl version

The difference in quality is not quite as wide though, this album just sounds better in general than Shrines did

Album Rating: 3.5

I remember the first time I listened to Shrines on CD I almost fell off my chair when trying to quickly remove my HP in pain. That first riff entered the scene like a truck driven by a smiling Rick Rubin. Nightmarish 😰

Album Rating: 5.0

Bro to get a 4.2 on this website after 1000 votes at the moment is so ridiculous, this might have been a 4.5 10-20 years ago.

Album Rating: 5.0

man people go on and on about the production on shrines and i get it and hear it but it's not that bad



by comparison, sure, but i'll listen to ulcerate albums back to back including shrines and it just doesnt bug me! different strokes for different folks i guess

Album Rating: 5.0

Same tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

The Shrines production is more baffling to me than it is annoying. Both Vermis and TDOA had really well mixed drums, whereas Shrines has a low tuned ‘fat’ snare, which is high in the mix, with a buried kickdrum. I don’t believe for one second it was an oversight, so it would be interesting to know what made them approach things in that way, because they’ve immediately jettisoned it again with Stare In to Death! I’d like to think Ad Nauseam’s recent album finally puts to bed this silly idea that technical metal has to sound ridiculously compressed and sterile in order to ‘cut through’, because it sounds both organic and extremely clear.

Album Rating: 5.0

Wow this shit's immaculate



The vocals could be a bit more interesting I guess, but if I haven't stopped listening 3 tracks in that generally means I can ignore them not being great

Album Rating: 5.0

I adore the vocals personally. I need to spin this again, it's fucking outstanding.

@GuyMan lol flashback when we showed this to you and you said it sucked and kept wanting us to listen to some lame Queensryche album roflmao

Album Rating: 3.5

Never really dug the guy's vox. Theyre fine. Really wish they kept the guy from OFAF, he was more their speed.

I concur

Album Rating: 5.0

I really like the music, the vox are at this point a light deterrent, but nothing drastic. I couldn't listen to Shrines of Paralysis due to the vox there tho, so guess this one is more listenable

Album Rating: 5.0

!!!!! There’s not enough peanut butter for the jelly i currently have

Album Rating: 5.0

Both were excellent but Mgla showed us all why they are the headliners