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| 4.0 excellent | TheTripP | June 16th 23 |
I'M GONNA RIIIIDE RIDE RIIIIDE! Angus McFife coming in hot with an upgraded McSix!
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| 4.0 excellent | ilies | May 16th 23 |
This band is funny similar to Rhapsody of Fire. Very fun and great wit in lyrics plus a magic spells and dragons to carpe diem.
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| 4.0 excellent | frozencarl | April 27th 23 |
drama and weird attachment to gloryhammer aside, this shit slaps hard. sounds exactly what you'd expect a gloryhammer/orden ogan mashup to sound like
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| 3.5 great | Panzerchrist | April 25th 23 |
Despite feeling undeniably rushed, there's a veritable, fervent energy that runs throughout
every track on the album, and it further cements the idea that Thomas was not just a simple
vocalist in the Gloryhammer canon, capable of being quickly and simply replaced.
A couple of small notes:
As much as I'd like to disconnect this project from the GH machine, there's no denying WHY it
worked. Storytelling throughout their albums' runtimes kept the listener engaged, while also
further incentivizing checking out the next album. On that front, AMatSoP doesn't quite offer
that level of storytelling, or storytelling *finesse*. There's no doubt GH's first album was
more concerned with setting up the characters at play rather then the drama at hand, but it
still managed to make most aspects, otherwise, a lot more clear. AMatSoP definitely struggles
to keep the narrative thread untangled, which is a shame.
The focus on characters feels a bit unbalanced, though I understand the need for a "victory
lap", as well. Thomas has an especially stacked roster of musicians at his disposal, but it's
difficult to get a gauge on their personalities; either through the songwriting or the
storytelling. Again, I understand the need to return with as much pomp and drama as possible,
but the rest of his band feels a touch underutilized, as a result.
I'm hoping, all in all, that these issues will be addressed as they take a bit more time on a
follow-up. This is a solid base, and it really just needs to be reiterated upon. Fun for
sure.
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| 4.0 excellent | Mitch | April 24th 23 |
Dumb, but fun with tons of catchy hooks. This definitely receives the RRC seal of approval; feel good music perfected.r
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| 3.5 great | terriblekonrad | April 23rd 23 |
This is great, despite of 2 first singles which are kinda lame in the lamest possible way.
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| 5.0 classic | Ztrain | November 9th 23 |
| 1.5 very poor | NeoZod | May 18th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Jimmer | April 27th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Keira | April 24th 23 |
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