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| 5.0 classic | Lybrium | December 12th 09 |
Callisto are on a mission. Since their compelling debut, this heavy, melodious Finnish band have been oozing creativity, and this release is surprisingly different, and not surprisingly, very good.
"True Nature Unfolds", served as an excellent name for Callisto's debut album, as the songs this group create tend to roll leisurely, almost subconsciously, into each new movement. Make no mistake, this is a very heavy band, yet the song structure and instrumentation is very melodious and slow-burning, allowing ample time for the listener to get sentimental, before being pummeled by a wall of epic, distorted chords. This feeling is what Callisto puts into each release, A very natural, ebb and flow of emotion, captured in the pretense of hard rock, jazz, doom, and ambient, and just good old jammin. Callisto's sophomore album, "Noir" was a sprawling record that left little unsaid in terms of textures and soudscapes, and "Providence", the bands latest effort, does much of the same and more, with the luxurious addition of clean vocals.
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| 4.0 excellent | stabbler | December 15th 11 |
not immediately appealing; in fact it feels that callisto has abandoned their heritage, but over time this becomes an incredibly rewarding listen, escaping the boring repetitiveness of many other post-metal bands
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| 2.0 poor | jybt | April 14th 12 |
Post-metal with mostly clean vocals is a slowly growing idea; the potential problem is neutering the music so much that it becomes a mess of nothing, and Providence is mired in generic, meaningless chords, song structures with no direction, poorly orchestrated transitions into the rare and ineffective heavy sections, and a vocalist who just isn't well-suited for this type of music. The title track avoids these problems by building towards a dramatic finish with Callisto's signature cryptic, poetic spiritual lyrics, but perhaps this piece is the only selling point of the album. I look forward to hearing another band try an album like this, but they'll have to succeed where Callisto fail at creating captivating musical journeys.
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| 2.0 poor | 2ool | February 22nd 17 |
| 3.0 good | mursu | May 24th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Apollo | December 2nd 15 |
| 3.9 excellent | Deviant. STAFF | August 11th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | June 29th 15 |
| 3.5 great | marasm | January 30th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Majkl | November 12th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | neikos | January 21st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | h0rsie | November 17th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Uqnivde | October 20th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Rudawy | February 3rd 13 |
| 2.5 average | JS19 | February 3rd 13 |
| 3.5 great | cb123 | September 25th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Shvyin | June 11th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | smeaf | June 9th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shuyin | April 24th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Coast | December 21st 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Toolock | September 28th 11 |
| 2.0 poor | GibTG | May 20th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | May 13th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Japsu | September 22nd 10 |
| 3.0 good | Voivod STAFF | September 11th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | vdop | July 18th 10 |
| 2.5 average | cjacob6 | September 29th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | alsid | September 28th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Zoo | August 29th 09 |
| 1.5 very poor | lobby | June 15th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Photon | April 10th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Asaura | March 18th 09 |
| 3.0 good | 204409 EMERITUS | February 25th 09 |
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