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| 3.0 good | ajcollins15 | May 27th 21 |
Have you ever wonder what it would be like if Castlevania had a ?kick-ass? black metal soundtrack to it. Well even if you haven?t that?s exactly what this new EP from the Texas native is doing and, in some aspects, it?s really fun and cool. However, this also leaves me wondering what in the world would you do with this past what has been done? When it's on its more of a novelty than anything and I have a hard time seeing anything else past it. Still, the bit music has a lot of charm to it at least.
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| 3.0 good | Gary STAFF | May 26th 21 |
I'm a bit doubtful about the "synergy" here, but inserting the old-school arcade video game soundscape into black metal is a noteworthy effort the least. Weird stuff, but for me it offered far less enjoyment than the classic method of mixing (true) dungeon synth into atmoblack. Interesting experiment, but that's all I could say.
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| 4.5 superb | Brandon Scott EMERITUS | May 7th 21 |
Even going into this record knowing what it would sound like, I was still very much floored by
Gonemage’s debut album. Continuing in the spirit of Cara Neir’s last outing, Mystical Extraction
is the dungeon crawler alternative to Phase Out’s platformer black metal. Imagine if Bergtatt-era
Ulver and Castlevania’s Symphony of the Night soundtrack sired a child that was raised by
Dillinger Escape Plan and Slowdive and you’re halfway to understanding what Mystical Extraction
sounds like. Nothing here seems cobbled together though, with multi-instrumentalist/vocalist
Galimgim carefully curating elements from the aforementioned genres and sculpting them in ways
that feel fresh yet nostalgic all at once. Black metal and video games both share a certain
reverence for the past, but if Mystical Extraction is any indication, they’ve always had more in
common than we ever thought.
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| 3.0 good | Mojito | March 15th 25 |
| 3.5 great | arf | October 19th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | RogueZ | May 17th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | GallyP | May 10th 21 |
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