Album Rating: 2.5

Review Summary is kinda lame low hanging fruit, but the review itself is great and as per I agree Robert.

review summary is great

Fuck I was actually looking forward to this one

Album Rating: 2.5

It is Abbath! so I will listen to it

why does the album cover look like that

ugly cover art indeed

Album Rating: 2.5

Not as bad as I expected it to be. Motörhead worship is fine. The title track is actually good... the whole record just suffers from bad mixing.



A reminder of one of the greatest pictures ever taken:



https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/ar0/9b77f38ebb101c60a34a857c1c4f02a3

Wooo well big disagreement on this one. I would say this is the first Abbath album I've actually liked. Great musical ideas and sounds. I can hear the instrumentation just fine. There is some distortion and wash that is plenty appropriate to a black metal album. I found earlier Abbath work among other things, a little too studio slick for my tastes. This is like a less riff intensive, more expansive sounding Bathory's the return in of course Abbath's style. Love the distant sounding leads. Percussion is mixed low and on point, providing a nice stomp throughout. The vocal performance growls and howls with the best. I even like the cover from ride the lightning. I can hear of course some of where the complaint comes from, there's more compression than necessarry. So I can see where irritation can come in and ruin an album for some, and usually, if something is overcompressed I am right with those critics but this one was working for me. A distant, echo-y juggernaut was just what I was in the mood for.

songs are meh but the production is fantastic. love the griminess

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

Wtf? How is production on this fantastic? It has absolutely nothing to do with the primitive style of early black metal. This has simply absolutely atrocious mixing. It doesn't add anything to the style or atmosphere, it's simply bad.



Listen to some old school Brazilian black metal from late 80' and early 90'. This was primitive production. It sounds as if recording hardware was made out of sweet potatoes and soya beans and mixing was done on a speaker less Atari. But somehow they managed to make the instrumentation legible.



This is an utter, unlistenable piece of shit.

Came here after seeing Abbath congratulating themselves on their facebook page after getting a 9.5/10 review from Metal Injection. lmfao

Album Rating: 2.5

Expected worse tbh. The idea of Motorhead but make it thrash black is cool, it's just a little boring here.

>The idea of Motorhead but make it thrash black is cool, it's just a little boring here.

so Midnight then? Devil Master? Shitfucker?

Album Rating: 2.5

as far as Midnight goes they're doing more of a modern day Venom thing but yeah they rule hard af

"Wtf? How is production on this fantastic? It has absolutely nothing to do with the primitive style of early black metal. This has simply absolutely atrocious mixing. It doesn't add anything to the style or atmosphere, it's simply bad.



Listen to some old school Brazilian black metal from late 80' and early 90'. This was primitive production. It sounds as if recording hardware was made out of sweet potatoes and soya beans and mixing was done on a speaker less Atari. But somehow they managed to make the instrumentation legible.



This is an utter, unlistenable piece of shit."

some tasty pasta right here

Album Rating: 1.5

"Wtf? How is production on this fantastic? It has absolutely nothing to do with the primitive style of early black metal. This has simply absolutely atrocious mixing. It doesn't add anything to the style or atmosphere, it's simply bad."



this part is simply the truth.

"an album in 2022 doesnt sound like it came out in the early 80s"

outstanding criticism guys.

Album Rating: 2.2

You guys all went off tangent didn't you.

Album Rating: 1.5

@Senetrix

have you missed the whole retro trend in metal and rock ?

and btw let me tell you a little secret: it's not like the "old" recording techniques of the 1980s have been lost to time.



and no the production doesn't suck cause it sounds too "modern", it sucks cause it fails to do its "job".

sometimes this site is so cringe.