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| 0.0 | Black Daimon | March 8th 17 |
Severed Monolith is a brilliantly paced and quite detailed album. Each song features several layers of tight, technical and varied music that only engages interest more and more over each subsequent listen. Penultimate track ?Crushed Under the Weight of God? displays this songwriting prowess with incredible nuance in its nine-minute runtime. But with its vast influences and erratic aesthetic tone uneasily hanging over every facet of the music, it can be hard to suspend disbelief and fully immerse yourself within its style. With perhaps an iota more care when developing the lyrical concepts, the song titles and the unity of its interludes to fit completely in line with one another and with the monstrously perfect artwork, Severed Monolith could have been a modern classic -- but it?s in those stupidly insignificant details that it loses me.
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| 3.5 great | zaruyache | September 19th 20 |
death metal morbid angel-core.
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| 4.0 excellent | Panzerchrist | March 9th 17 |
Has a heavy Immolation influence hanging over it, despite the fact that the album name, artwork and track titles would seem to indicate deep, chasmous death metal of the ten minute affair (though this does have 1).
I think I personally prefer it to the previously mentioned band's newest, on account of some especially strong songwriting, and song construction in general. The riffs on here are not only unusually heady, but extremely varied as well, of vastly different tempos, techniques and with interesting transitions as well. Each instrument has an exemplar moment within the compositions (the drums having some particularly interesting fills and general patterns), but these leads absolutely steal the show.
My only real complaints with the album comes from A) the surprisingly formulaic vocal performance, and B) the inconsequential interludes, which add nothing of value to the album. Otherwise a standout album, and an early contender for death metal album of the year.
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| 3.5 great | heck | January 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lvxfra | October 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryus | October 14th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Surtur | October 5th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Pon EMERITUS | October 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | blou52 | April 18th 20 |
| 3.5 great | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | October 13th 18 |
| 3.0 good | JS19 | September 8th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | GhostK | August 26th 18 |
| 3.5 great | GazAldo | December 23rd 17 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | September 17th 17 |
| 2.5 average | ckssr1 | June 30th 17 |
| 3.0 good | K4nOo | March 12th 17 |
| 2.5 average | Elynna | March 10th 17 |
| 3.5 great | YUJOS | February 26th 17 |
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