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| 3.6 great | clavier EMERITUS | June 7th 19 |
well this was a crushingly gorgeous (think: extremely thorny roses) album that i did not expect to discover. another win for the icelandic scene
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| 2.5 average | 2026 | October 26th 23 |
one of those dreamy modern bms. glad its so short i was bored
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| 4.1 excellent | Erwann S. EMERITUS | November 26th 20 |
Terrifying. At the same time, this is goddamn beautiful. This is due to da album's real MVP: the tone. It's dissonant and creepy, with occasional gorgeous parts that echo the emotion bands like Suis La Lune can create. The vocals pursue the same goal, their inhumanity being only matched by how ironically human the despair they are conveying is.
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | July 12th 19 |
Absolutely amazing black metal. Would be in 4.5 range if it weren't for the vocals which I found
frankly quite horrendous most of the time. It is one thing to sound inhuman and despaired, it's
another to sound like field recording of evil sick burping babies. The instrumentals on the other
hand are out of this world and make every single track a jam. I love the unique gnarly,
aggressive, noisy, droney almost tone the band creates. It has horror and bleak feels, but also a
sort of emo feel at times - not sound, juts the emotion of it. An instrumental version of this
would nearly be a potential classic - the record is extremely strong, cohesive and unique, not
too long to bore but long enough to thoroughly entertain. 4.22
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| 4.5 superb | Brandon Scott EMERITUS | June 14th 19 |
This year for black metal is what last year was for death metal. There is not a day that goes by that I don?t discover something killer. In particular the Icelandic scene. I?ve waxed on about it a lot recently, but it just keeps delivering and at an inhuman pace. My latest discovery is the band Anvald. They definitely have elements of the Reykjavík sound, but instead of the usual blastbeat intensity they slow things down to a crawl, allowing their creepy, dissonant sounds to worm their way into your head and make camp. Highly recommended.
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| 4.0 excellent | robotmagician | June 11th 19 |
Another band showing the unbelievable strength of the icelandic bm scene. No coincidence that DG of misthyrming has his hand in yet another masterful album.
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| 4.0 excellent | heck | February 25th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Prole | August 8th 23 |
| 3.0 good | ckssr1 | November 25th 22 |
| 3.5 great | qt | January 22nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | December 12th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Lvxfra | October 23rd 21 |
| 3.0 good | CK1991 | January 30th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Spluger | January 2nd 20 |
| 3.5 great | YakNips | December 29th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | DJO | December 14th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | dam1inc | December 1st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | mifzal | August 29th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greem | August 24th 19 |
| 3.5 great | tyler | July 9th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | alpsi | July 1st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | June 26th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | bbm | June 22nd 19 |
| 3.5 great | gnimas | June 21st 19 |
| 3.5 great | Xavier | June 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | elch21 | June 19th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Gary STAFF | June 16th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Elynna | June 14th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | June 11th 19 |
| 3.5 great | bmelt | June 7th 19 |
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