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| 4.0 excellent | Balerion | December 3rd 16 |
More like AshBoner
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| 4.5 superb | borya | December 3rd 16 |
one of the best ambient bm albums in a long time... you know it's good if it's not on sputnik's hype train
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| 2.5 average | zaruyache | November 30th 16 |
Yet again they take Ash Borer's furious bm and water it down with crappy atmospherics and mixing
that doesn't make any sense. Why can I barely hear the rhythm guitar at all at some points? Why
does it sound so thin, so low, and barely contribute anything other than just fuzzing in the
background most of the time? Why is the lead guitar the only instrument that seems to matter?
When it was announced that Randall Dunn (the guy who produced every WitTR LP since Two Hunters)
was going to produce, I assumed we'd get a nice, balanced clean sound a la a more aggressive
WitTR. But alas, the mixing is just as unwieldy as on their last two releases. As an upside, the
band have peeled back some of the theatrics from Cold of Ages (excessive atmospheric junk, clean
female vocals) in an apparent attempt at getting back toward a more raw black metal style.
So hey, baby steps.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jim1 | September 21st 20 |
Imagine thinking ash borer is boring lmao. Fantastic album with incredible peaks and troughs of speed and aggression. Huge.
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| 0.0 | ramon. | November 30th 16 |
more like Ashboring, amirite
i feel like i don't understand this band and that's alright
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | May 5th 21 |
It's always difficult to rate when a band changes styles unexpectedly. The shift isn't too drastic here, this remains black metal, but they do move a way from the bread and butter atmospheric passage - atmoblack - more calmer passages of their prior records. This one is slower, it evokes older era bm at times, and I just dig that less - but kudos to them for trying new stuff you know. I also find that the prod makes it sound like a debut a bit sometimes, which obviously doesn't help. The style shift perhaps could've worked better on shorter format, and in fact the outro of 1 makes it feel a bit like a standalone EP that could've been worthwhile. The droney noisey midtrack on 2 is really cool and also makes the track feel like it could've been an EP in itself. The second half of the track picks things up and is actually excellent, one of the peaks of the album. In fact the peaks are when AB do what older AB did. 4's nice. There is an album conclusion that wraps things up nicely, and all in all this still has some (but fewer) excellent atmoblack sections, with still out of this world vocals; it just doesn't reach the heights of their prior work on a consistent enough basis. 3.6
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| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | March 28th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | loulou | August 6th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Lvxfra | October 25th 21 |
| 3.5 great | yayafa | January 29th 21 |
| 2.5 average | jmh886 | March 5th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | yoil | December 31st 19 |
| 3.5 great | Prole | October 10th 19 |
| 2.5 average | tyler | March 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nuberus | January 6th 18 |
| 3.0 good | EJinHD | December 31st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | buttz | November 3rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | tgdv | May 19th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Swarm | April 29th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Wolfe | April 28th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kriss | April 12th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Krvst | March 23rd 17 |
| 3.5 great | emmny | March 13th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | K4nOo | March 12th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Elynna | February 18th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | January 18th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Coast | December 30th 16 |
| 2.5 average | YakNips | December 30th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mitch S. | December 23rd 16 |
| 2.5 average | Wizard | December 22nd 16 |
| 3.0 good | slaps | December 6th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Thor | December 5th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Hawks | December 4th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | GodL1ke | December 2nd 16 |
| 3.5 great | sevhar | December 1st 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | Wolfe | November 30th 16 |
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