Hopefully it's decent

They tagged it black metal which is interesting considering they're all electronic now

shame cuz thats easily their best album

I thought that was supposed to be their swan song, but since they're continuing it'll be interesting to see what they do next. This band can really do no wrong.

Well that's just, like, your opinion man.

i mean some of their "black metal" stuff is kinda boring

Fucking psyched.

Go play in traffic OvDeath.

cold

I wish it wasn't so. Brb, gonna go lament in a graveyard to some vintage MDB as I cut my wrist and bleed myself dry in anticipation of entering the void.

Calling all their albums trash is pretty dumb.

except not, because they kinda are

no he does this constantly, he does these purposefully contrarian opinions and then plays the victim when he knows perfectly well what hes doing, its been his modus operandi ever since he got run off the site and then came back as the "elite metal forum overlord" he is right now.

youre just playing right into it.

People just dislike strong opinions that they disagree with

I like most of WITTR's work so here's hoping they're onto something good

fucking hyped

guys stahp

I think they have a crush on u Snox

ovdeath is sooo cool his meta game is so on point on this thread. these guys are from olympia near me i think and yet i've never heard one person around here utter their name.

(Slides in to see comments, sees angry arguments. Casually slides out of comments)

New album hype hype gonna rule. Or at least I hope it does; I wasn't big on Celestial Lineage.

"ovdeath is sooo cool his meta game is so on point on this thread. these guys are from olympia near me i think and yet i've never heard one person around here utter their name."

wouldnt be BLLAACCKKKK METUL otherwise

i guess not. I'd think at least one utterance would escape the bowels of the underground scene though.

Pumped

I am genuinely excited for this. Diadem of 12 Stars, 2 hunters, and Celestite are three very solid albums.

I listen to Diadem way more than any of the others tbh

First 3 albums all slay, Celestial Lineage is ok I guess, and Celestite is pretty sweet. Def interested to see what they put out next.

what would fenriz say?

prob call it hippy junk without enough punk riffzzz

So yeah hyped

But what even happened in this thread

Hopefully they don't go for the linear and super repetitive style of BC and instead expand on a sound that is more reminiscent of both TH and CL.

slightly hyped

People on this site just gang-hated it after Jac posted his terrible 1.0 review of it lol.

noice

Black Cascade is better than Celestial Lineage and Two Hunters both though.

nah

diadem is still my fav

Two Hunters will forever reign supreme imo

Not as hot on this band and atmospheric black metal as a whole as I used to be though tbh

your statement was bullshit, end of story

stop your whining

Everyone should check Ardour Loom if they need something to whet their wittr appetite cough cough.

I mean you came in solely to shit on a band you don't like so...

Two Hunters was superb, I've yet to catch up with the rest

Hoping for more two hunters/celestial lineage style, could never get on with black cascade

'3 Hunters' confirmed

Black Cascade kicks ass.

That record is a solid 3.5 for me.

Diadem riffs so fucking hard. But i really like all their bm stuff, never got very big into celestite though. if they're going back to bm, that's pretty awesome.

This thread is weird

the boys are back in town

hope they sell me some Wranglers

new two hunters or bust

I havent been active in the community since like 2012 so I don't know who to hate anymore


You can start with me

Why would some of you guys want another Two Hunters? I love that album, but that's pretty dumb.

well something in the vein of that but expanded upon I suppose. Bring back the meaningful buildup ambient sections and long song runtimes. I didn't like Diadem for its sound quality but I could actually go for something like that now, given their albums have fantastic recording quality now adays.

The only album of theirs I'm not crazy about is Celestial Lineage, which is a pretty average album. Diadem and Black Cascade are pretty much tied for my fav and I love Two Hunters too, but I don't want an exact replica of it by any means.

Damn im super excited for this. Im with Zaru, it would be cool if the album had a more raw production style this time around

I'm sure most everyone who calls for a part two of anything ever doesn't want an exact replica of said thing.. Merely a throwback to the quality and themes, perhaps? Honestly though, if they've improved their strictly ambient approach I would be more than ok with that as well. Celestite was pretty ok.

Celestite is a damn good album. I think that might've just been a one time thing unless they decide to return to it at some point in the future, who knows I guess.

Hope so.. I enjoyed Celestite a fair deal more than I did Celestial Lineage. Seems like a move to dark ambient would work out for the better for them. But... who knows, indeed.

Agreed with that too. Celestial Lineage is easily their most underwhelming for me.

Nah that honor belongs to Black Cascade. Celestial Lineage is the most forward-thinking of their releases, with no shortage of the otherworldly atmosphere found on their first two. What it also has in common with the first two (particularly Two Hunters), is that it's more of an album experience than a collection of songs like on Cascade.

Black Cascade seems pretty consistent to me. Celestial was really disjointed, like you get Thuja, then a crapshoot of black metal and experimental sounds for fifteen minutes, then it goes back to Astral Blood, then ends on a long dirge. It's a jarring way to organize the album.

Agreed w/ Dis_Con_Nec_Ted, Celestial Lineage is their best since Diadem and Two Hunters.

CL is entirely a collection of songs. You have songs that are wildly different, then a bunch of interludes placed haphazardly between them all. Cascade at least had a consistency of style across its four tracks, whereas each main song on CL seems to want to do its own thing with little regard for the album's flow. "Jarring" is a good word for it.

^ Agreed. Celestial Lineage has some great songs, but it doesn't have the same flow as Black Cascade. Celestite isn't a bad album, but I would really like to hear some more black metal from these guys.

Haven't really enjoyed anything they have done since Black Cascade, always give them a shot though.

I've only heard Diadem of 12 Stars and liked it as much as I could considering it was just Dead as Dreams again. I've heard good things about Two Hunters, maybe I'll spin their discog today.

Im beyond fucking excited for this. Celestial Lineage was underwhelming, yes, but I still thought it was solid at its core

I hope they tour again. Half of my affinity for this band is because they put on my all-time favorite concert in a parking lot in RI even though I'd never heard a note of their music when I showed up.

yea ill never get the mixed reception for CL. Nearly as good as two hunters tbh

Talons you're high bro.

I love CL but Idk about better than Cascade.

That shoegazing part at the end of A.Trance is so fucking good. God damn

Who gives a damn about flow when the album for the most part just is flowing with unmemorable riffs in a wall of sound and consistently is lacking dynamics to make the individual song stand out. To this day I still can only remember that riff or two in Ex Cathedra from the top of my head.

that one riff m/ m/ m/ m/ m/ m/ m/ m/ m/ m/

"Who gives a damn about flow when the album for the most part just is flowing with unmemorable riffs in a wall of sound and consistently is lacking dynamics to make the individual song stand out."

Never listen to Paysage.

listening to Atmos BM for the riffs

smh

A riff can be atmospheric too, y'know. ...and memorable. But I know, I'm among bm authorities itt and not listening for the right reasons, right

i like the twinkles )*o*(

Unfortunately I can only agree with the first part. And toast always needs butter.

Wait what? Two Hunters has a pretty dark atmosphere throughout.

"Paysage has great riffs though."

Yeah, but try humming one.

That part is gorgeous and I'm desperately trying to create something like it on the album I'm currently recording.

Oh yeah, just as an update: They said on facebook the new album would be out in 2017. Hype!