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| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | December 17th 20 |
Many times you come across a black metal band that mistakes repetitive song-writing for atmosphere, long duration for gargantuan epic-ness and sees heaviness as a subsidy for good structure and instrumentation. Prison of Mirrors kind of walks the line in between. Their songs can use their length really well, but their other songs can also go for way too long than necessary. Their song-writing can be brutal and menacing, but it can also be repetitive and dime-a-dozen. They can flash their instrumental finesse, but they can also drip to a snooze. It's an uneven album that goes for too long, but that parts that are great are worth it.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | September 22nd 20 |
Cool evil bm, but I don't think they have fully reached their potential yet. They have some cool ideas and sounds, but they are most commonly overused, protracted, or simply lost in a sea of more generic sounding stuff. The prod on some guitars on 1 is particularly flat and poor, and compositionally it's fine but has been done better before, but the end of the track is ok. 2 has a cool drum intro that rapidly unfolds into cliche, but the second half gets progressively more evil and hellish and gets really cool by the end, concluding on a monk chant sort of thing that is super cool here, but will be overused later. The intro to 3 is quite clumsy but the unfolding riff is crazily glacial and really cool, into a nice monkish bridge entering the last third of the track. This hinge between 2 and 3 really is the peak of the album, as the behemoth 4 is pretty boring and far too long, with only some cool riffage here and there but certainly not enough to hold the fort for 22min. The fadeout outro into monks feels cheap too, considering we've heard that twice already and it sounded exactly the same. 3.3
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| 3.5 great | Lvxfra | October 25th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Taku | April 12th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Host78 | February 6th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Gelt666 | December 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | kx8 | December 28th 20 |
| 1.0 awful | Sorgh87 | December 25th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | gagnonov | September 29th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Jerrha | September 25th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Nephren | September 25th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Avar616 | September 24th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Musta6 | September 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Woodsman | September 20th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Elynna | September 18th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Arlind | September 17th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Lykurg | September 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mitch S. | September 3rd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Donchivo | September 2nd 20 |
| 2.5 average | Runeii | September 2nd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Yahya | September 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | JKzer0 | August 29th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Lekturn | August 25th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Stagger | August 9th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Ekin | August 2nd 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Ethile | July 28th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | MAB | July 21st 20 |
| 3.0 good | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | July 7th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Nixos5 | June 29th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Vjnop | June 25th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | bbm | June 16th 20 |
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