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| 2.5 average | cjbizzlebizzle | November 26th 18 |
Black metal meets Victorian folk meets prog/avant metal meets a lead vocalist named Mister Curse who is sure to divide those who happen upon "Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes". A Forest of Stars are a unique outfit with a sound that you will have a hard time finding elsewhere. Violins and cellos join synth elements book-ending a black metal base sound all in support of one of the more theatrical vocalists you will find in the black metal world. Mister Curse will not be everyone's cup of tea because he may come off as tortured genius artist to some and the kid who tried way to hard in English class to others. At times his shrieks really compliment the creepy atmosphere but the more he rants and gets involved the more tiresome it becomes and at times approaches laughable with his use of curse words. On the whole Mister Curse is just a bit too much to be taken seriously. Grave Mounds... has its moments but on the whole it drags on too long and the songwriting is too jolting with black metal voyages randomly interspersed with folk passages without much sense of marriage between the two. On top of that the production accentuates Mister Curse and the violins drastically more than anything else and you almost forget they have a bassist and drummer at times. A nice idea for genre blending but this album just becomes way too easy to stop paying attention to for a 64 minute journey.
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| 4.0 excellent | Loveloth | December 12th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | November 26th 23 |
| 3.5 great | phylyps | November 29th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Chippe | May 24th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Chrysoar | December 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | SgtShock | September 8th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Spag | March 28th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | yoil | December 31st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | eirinn | December 10th 19 |
| 2.0 poor | aGit | December 2nd 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Sagal | February 12th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Aranox | January 21st 19 |
| 3.0 good | Coast | January 13th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | kx8 | December 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | osmark86 | December 11th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Egarran | December 11th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Ryan P STAFF | November 30th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Nisraak | October 19th 18 |
| 3.5 great | mRA | October 19th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | October 11th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Kruppe | October 6th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Zecke | September 30th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Elynna | September 29th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Jeejee | September 28th 18 |
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