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| 2.5 average | Bedex | January 8th 23 |
I don't know what it is but I just don't click with this band. To me it all sounds like a blurry directionless mess with some good moments but no architectures tying those moments together. It takes 10 minutes of (too) slow and relatively boring buildup to get anything I find compelling on 1, then shrieks come in and it all intensifies to a cool feeling of horror, only to be dropped literally 30 seconds later after which it all fades away into quasi-nothing. Why? The track returns with some bm druminess but I find it kinda awkward before it finally turns to something really quite cool at the 15min mark. After a smooth transition 2 is just long drone with interspersed gritty noises, and frankly it is well crafted and works well but it overextends. By the midtrack a lady starts talking and it already felt about time the track ended. 3 restarts into something bmey again but my reaction was more 'erf do I really want it to' than anything positive. There's a nice guitar at 2:45 but I'm really grasping at straws here. This gets all quite boring to me even though the agressive wall at 11min is cool - again with this feeling of the music being a blurry meandering that sometimes gets cool almost by accident. The second half (10min) of the track is going back down into dronebient of sorts, giving a matchingly underwhelming conclusion to the album. 2.6
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| 3.0 good | rage11111ro | June 24th 21 |
Intense, repetitive, truly frightening, there are some truly bone chilling moments in here.
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| 4.0 excellent | EasterInTheBatcave | June 11th 16 |
Dark Space I contained a few actual "riffs" (or parts which you could tap your foot to, anyway). Dark Space II tones this element down and instead takes the wall-of-sound concept even further than its predecessor. The length has been shortened for this release-- 54 minutes vs. the 76 of Dark Space I-- which is a good thing, and the atmosphere is still very absorbing. However, the record is overly repetitious at times, and the samples are very difficult to decipher, which is a disappointment. (Special mention to "Dark 2.10," though, which is an incredible track and one of my favourites from the band.)
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| 4.0 excellent | Lani | August 18th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Inveigh | December 30th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | kodama | May 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kos | April 21st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | tekth | November 8th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Lvxfra | October 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | August 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | kleggi | June 16th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | May 5th 21 |
| 3.5 great | yayafa | February 4th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | kabster | September 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | tyler | July 12th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gary STAFF | January 31st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | blou52 | November 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Elynna | September 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ArchonX | September 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | March 14th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | gagnonov | February 20th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | mifzal | February 1st 19 |
| 3.5 great | Basara | November 3rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sapee | September 10th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | bSmith | July 22nd 18 |
| 5.0 classic | esav | November 22nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | GazAldo | June 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nud | April 11th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lanas | October 13th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | ckssr1 | August 26th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Malchior | February 18th 16 |
| 3.5 great | 8genre | January 5th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | trve | October 2nd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Steev | August 3rd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Aion | March 6th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | neikos | December 15th 14 |
| 3.5 great | adr | September 9th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | August 31st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | YakNips | June 12th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Zeg | December 20th 13 |
| 3.5 great | unkle | November 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kyle Ward EMERITUS | October 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | ThrashK | August 3rd 13 |
| 3.5 great | Tuoni | July 19th 13 |
| 3.5 great | E0N | May 1st 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Caelum | April 18th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | MrBug | February 25th 13 |
| 4.7 superb | Ryan P STAFF | February 13th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | leycec | September 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rail | May 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | GodL1ke | March 21st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | YUJOS | July 22nd 11 |
| 3.5 great | Nacen | April 26th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Aether | November 15th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Vesper | September 30th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Zoo | December 8th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | ameypv | October 15th 09 |
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