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| 3.5 great | cjbizzlebizzle | December 1st 17 |
Fast-paced and ominous black metal with 66 minutes of aggressive riffs that evoke a satanic, dark feeling reminiscent of BM from the days of old. Eleven Dragons on the surface is primarily black metal thanks to those guitars. Acrimonious is not trying to blend genres as so many do these days but deeper down there are hints of death metal. Right beside the guitars is one of the smoothest basses ever found on a black metal record. The basslines are just phenomenal at times. The album does run on a bit long but repeated listens are extremely rewarding thanks to the depth of the guitars, bass, drums and to a bit of a lesser extent the vocals. The man on the mic is not boring by any means but does stick to a standard BM yowl sans a few wayward screams. Eleven Dragons is one of the better BM albums of 2017 that doesn't stray too far into other genres and one that would translate amazingly to a very dark, foggy room in a live setting. It would benefit from a bit of a trimming but Acrimonious do well by giving the listener some instrumental sections that really help pace everything.
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| 3.8 excellent | Voivod STAFF | August 15th 17 |
Terminating 5 years of silence, Acrimonious have returned with an album that can be described as both a completion of the half-finished experimentations introduced in Sunyata, and an expansion of the debut album, in which cleverly composed melancholic second wave black metal was blended with discrete death metal elements. This is easily among the best albums to come out this year from the Hellenic black metal scene. Favourite tracks: Satariel's Grail, Incineration Initiator, Elder of the Nashiym, Litany of Moloch's Feast. Stream: http://wtcproductions.bandcamp.com/album/eleven-dragons
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| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | March 14th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Laen | October 27th 17 |
| 3.5 great | gnimas | August 30th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | August 18th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | heck | August 18th 17 |
| 2.5 average | ckssr1 | June 12th 17 |
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