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| 0.0 | sean | June 17th 17 |
The musical equivalent of a tiny flaccid penis that not even the most powerful Viagra could help.
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| 2.0 poor | zaruyache | June 16th 17 |
How Not To Play Symphonic Black Metal: A Guide.
I still basically hate this band so yeah. Overly-cheesy super serious black metal with
nothing goofy or fun to help balance it out and actually make it an enjoyable record.
There's a lot of chugging, basic tremolo-work, the drums aren't very prominent in the
mix, and the vocals are too in-your-face with their snarled and enunciated delivery.
It's whatever.
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| 3.5 great | Eggnog Addict | March 20th 23 |
finally an album that actually cares about the instrumentation. cool album
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| 2.0 poor | missark | October 1st 20 |
A far departure from the early stuff, not my taste anymore, and if you are a fan of the first few, ignore this one.
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| 2.5 average | cjbizzlebizzle | December 1st 17 |
Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten is a fitting title for the musical package contained in Carach Angren's newest release. The album is first and foremost a symphonic horror story concept and secondarily black metal. Symphonic arrangements are present during the entire 41 minutes and overall the album sounds like a poor man's black metal version of a horror Christmas/holiday movie. Many of the main issues for this album revolve around the frontman. The approach to BM vocals is very dry and stale with hardly any variation. When the lyrics can be deciphered it is often hard to take any of them seriously and they are extremely literal. One moment sticks out is the part where he mentions countries and the gem "United States.... OF AMERICA" comes out. Moments like this pull the listener out of the concept/story that is going on and serve as a distraction. The album is truly just not evil enough for what they are seemingly going for. Oddly enough, the parts where the vocalist is more incomprehensible shine with good beefy guitar riffs and sometimes excellent symphonic elements. That being said, the songwriting itself is sometimes too haywire and the lack of structure serves as a weakness to the album as a whole. Before the first half is over the entire bag of tricks is used and for a short runtime this one drags on. Cheesy vocals but some good metal lies underneath that fans of traditional black metal are sure to hate.
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| 4.5 superb | Robinanimate | April 23rd 17 |
Best album since the debut imo. 1 year and 7 months after release, when still not tired of the album, the raised rating seems only appropriate. Not a bad song in sight, just growing pieces of pitch black theatrical extravaganza.
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| 3.0 good | Aranox | September 20th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Raoul | June 9th 21 |
| 3.0 good | yayafa | February 11th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Brabiz | December 8th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Sasaboy | September 22nd 19 |
| 2.5 average | Blurbs | March 31st 19 |
| 3.5 great | Gary STAFF | November 20th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Jhator | August 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Agonba | July 4th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | mRA | July 4th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Trey STAFF | June 25th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | KILL | June 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | dragoth | June 19th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryan P STAFF | June 19th 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | ian b. | June 18th 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | bbgames | June 17th 17 |
| 2.5 average | N2B3J | June 16th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | Elynna | June 16th 17 |
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