 | Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
3.9
excellent
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| 3.0 good | Gary STAFF | September 27th 23 |
Rather unexciting.
1 Bumps | Bump |
| 3.0 good | Eggnog Addict | June 25th 22 |
decently tinged bm that doesnt rly do anything special
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| 3.0 good | rage11111ro | October 1st 21 |
This does not flow exceptionally well
for me. I have mixed feelings on the
drum sound and the harsh vocals do not
blend well enough whilst the cleans are
great.
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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | August 12th 19 |
Less experimental than their other releases, this one has a quite classical melodic/atmospheric black metal feel reminiscent of the second-wave. Just a plain great black metal album.
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| 3.0 good | zaruyache | December 16th 16 |
The production is weirdly treble-heavy in a way that is very unlike BAN, and the songwriting is equally straightforward and lacks the personality and weirdness the band is so easily known for. "Saturnian Poetry" feels like the work of an experimental band trying to force themselves into a more "typical" sound, and it just doesn't work.
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| 4.5 superb | Serenityinaz12 | February 6th 15 |
After a bunch more listens I'm upping this to a 4.5. Still not as good as 1 and 2 but it's damn good anyway.
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| 4.0 excellent | DJPaulsGimpArm | October 10th 14 |
The live drums on this recording REALLY improve the overall sound compared to Memoria Vetusta I
and II, but the melodies are a bit lacklustre by comparison. That is not to say they are bad, to
the contrary this is one of the best BM albums I've heard in a long time. It's just a testament to
how perfectly crafted the previous two albums in this series were.
The first time I listened to this album, I listened to it two times back to back in it's entirety
and was completely swept away to an ethereal, sonic other-world. This is one of those albums that,
once it's finished, you feel like you have returned from a great voyage or journey and the reality
of your waking world seems somehow distant and unfamiliar. Truly high calibre, finesse material
from start to finish, with virtually no filler or fluff.
Production is excellent and really captures the cold yet beautiful essence of the second wave of
Scandinavian Black Metal, when it was still new and exciting. The album's only flaw is that some
tracks are more memorable and less repetitive than others and some of the melodies are not quite
as striking as on this album's predecessors. I pick up hints of sonic and tonal similarities to
Lunar Aurora and Wodensthrone, in addition to the traditional Norwegian fare that this album
celebrates (particularly early Emperor). Perhaps not BAN's best material, but still an
unmistakable triumph that must be experienced by any true connoisseur of the genre.
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| 4.0 excellent | Lassie | December 3rd 25 |
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| 3.5 great | T5Cx | February 18th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jake E. | August 28th 24 |
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| 3.5 great | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Bard0 | October 26th 23 |
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| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | January 4th 23 |
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| 3.5 great | Lvxfra | October 25th 21 |
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| 5.0 classic | Laen | August 6th 21 |
| 3.5 great | bbm | June 13th 21 |
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| 3.0 good | Rail | August 28th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | chanson | February 11th 17 |
| 3.5 great | mRA | January 6th 17 |
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| 1.0 awful | stub | December 5th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gmork89 | November 9th 16 |
| 3.5 great | p4p | November 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | GxTxK | October 23rd 16 |
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| 4.5 superb | cndflg | June 1st 15 |
| 3.5 great | trvvve | April 29th 15 |
| 3.0 good | trve | April 9th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryan P STAFF | March 31st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Phate72 | March 23rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | CWBrown | March 23rd 15 |
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| 3.5 great | krthll1 | December 27th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | slaps | December 16th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Xenophanes EMERITUS | December 12th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | modulor | December 4th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | SaT4R | November 28th 14 |
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| 5.0 classic | DrAQA | October 16th 14 |
| 2.5 average | adr | October 16th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hyper | October 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wizard | October 10th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | unkle | October 10th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Deviant. STAFF | October 7th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | September 28th 14 |
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