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| 4.0 excellent | ThrashK | July 4th 13 |
Some really transcendental ambient black metal - it's heavy, fast, cold, dark and especially moody. You know, we live on this somewhat friendly planet with its blue sky, but outside that, it's just dark, cold space over and over to infinity.
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| 2.5 average | Bedex | November 15th 22 |
I am not at all convinced by this one. There are many glimpses of goodness, but the albums really feels like it cannot choose between first wavey chuggy chugs, and vast expansive bm atmosphere. Now I like variety in albums and I dont mind stylistic shifts, but here you cannot have more than three minutes of one without it turning into the other. Even the prod jumps from relatively thin on the atmo bits to fuller on the chug. It is particularly chaotic on 4 with random drums coming in for a minute, volume changes etc. It doesn't help that I am already not a fan of the chuggy flavor of bm to begin with, and indeed the crumbs of greatness are all in the atmospheric bits for me. I like the synths that complement them too. 6 is the only track I enjoyed on the whole, with delicious atmo riffage and a relatively coherent structure unlike anything else here. Bumped the album up a tier, but it was brought right down by the closer, which is chuggy, takes ages upon ages to end, and yet still manages to conclude on a fadeout. 3 is quite cool around 5min in, the first wall of bm on 1 is fun, there are other good bits, but man did I mention this is 76 minutes long too? 2.7
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| 4.0 excellent | rage11111ro | August 6th 21 |
A journey into space filled with amazing riffs and atmosphere.
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| 4.0 excellent | EasterInTheBatcave | June 9th 16 |
An album this dense and detailed would be tiring at half the length, and therein lies Dark Space I's biggest problem: it's too long for its own good. However, the atmosphere is really, really excellent (very dark and cold), the ambient passages are great, and the sample work is cool too. All in all, this is an excellent black metal record, marred only by an excessive runtime.
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| 3.5 great | zaruyache | August 29th 15 |
It's good but holy balls is it long. The band only seem to waver between two styles; super fast tremolo riffs with super simple chord progressions, and militaristic mid-paced chugging palm-muted riffs. Add keyboards over those two styles and Darkspace somehow manage to write a 70-minute record using just those two ideas. It's really quite amazing, but it's difficult to sit through because it all just gets old. Like Oh, we're doing some blast beats? I wonder what'll happen nex--oh we're chugging now? Didn't see that coming!
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| 4.0 excellent | Lani | August 18th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Inveigh | December 30th 23 |
| 4.2 excellent | Ryan P STAFF | November 2nd 23 |
| 4.5 superb | kodama | May 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | tekth | November 8th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Lvxfra | October 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | August 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | kleggi | June 16th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | May 4th 21 |
| 3.5 great | yayafa | February 4th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | ckssr1 | April 5th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gary STAFF | January 29th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Elynna | September 27th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ArchonX | September 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | blou52 | July 11th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | March 14th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Basara | November 3rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atari EMERITUS | October 13th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sapee | August 31st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | July 22nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | May 29th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | KyoZM | June 19th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Tuoni | February 6th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Lanas | October 13th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Malchior | February 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | 8genre | January 5th 16 |
| 3.5 great | btati | November 12th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | trve | October 2nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nud | September 22nd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Aion | March 6th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | p4p | December 27th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | esav | November 22nd 14 |
| 2.5 average | Pho3nix | October 16th 14 |
| 3.5 great | adr | October 1st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | joitp | April 20th 14 |
| 2.5 average | Zeg | December 20th 13 |
| 3.5 great | unkle | November 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | unkle | November 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Caelum | April 18th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | MrBug | February 25th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Disco | February 19th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wizard | October 19th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lonkipur | September 17th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Rail | May 20th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | leycec | March 12th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | eternium | February 12th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Alien | January 8th 12 |
| 3.5 great | YUJOS | July 22nd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nacen | May 9th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Kyle Ward EMERITUS | December 19th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Aether | November 15th 10 |
| 2.0 poor | Aether | November 15th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vesper | September 30th 10 |
| 3.0 good | ameypv | October 15th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | ameypv | October 15th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zoo | December 14th 08 |
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