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| 4.5 superb | Melodeth | November 17th 24 |
Tamas creativity abounds with another mesmerizing foray into avant-grade (black) metal with the customary folk n synthesizer passages
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| 4.0 excellent | Ferretmusic | November 22nd 24 |
Truth be told, last year's album, Alfld, was a bit of a disappointment to me, while it went for a more straight forward approach, I missed the eccentricities of the band. XII.... returns to this amongst a large list of guests that take the album through black metal, hungarian folk, psychedelic synth rock in way that it could be separate distinct albums but still works together as a whole
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| 2.5 average | Gary STAFF | November 14th 24 |
Very-very disappointed. "Piros Kocsi, Fekete j" and the title-track are super-super awesome, but the rest is... either way too "modernish" for my ears ("Mindenev?" or "Alhulls"), or simply way-too-out-of-place... why the hell is "Lydihoz" on this album? I don't get this Balkan music in the concept or style for this album at all. The lyrics are however very-very pretty, but altogether the album was my biggest disappointment.
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| 3.4 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | December 10th 24 |
This iteration of Thy Catafalque sees trad Hungarian folk grab its fair share of the soundscape, but that proposition mostly shines in the backhalf.
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| 0.0 | didnt ask to be staff, was made staff anyway, then got demoted for not doing staff stuff | December 3rd 24 |
I'm quite a Thy Catafalque sceptic and even I just admit that the bulk of this was stellar. I am still not the biggest fan of their grungy production that often works against the plethora of instruments they bring in as a feature, and the runtime as always is worthy of a trim, but the song-writing is their tightest in years and the crescendos do make me just the healthy nibble teary eyed.
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| 4.0 excellent | Comatorium. | November 19th 24 |
Does Gary actually like anything or just likes to bitch, I truly cannot tell you
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| 4.0 excellent | Ectier | November 16th 24 |
Hmmm im unsure atm i think Alfold is a lot better, this is kinda fun though
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| 3.5 great | cjbizzlebizzle | December 31st 24 |
The opener and 'Mindenevo' get things off to a very great start and the album as a whole stays high quality throughout. Thy Catafalque has (re?)introduced some guttarals and heavier elements into the mix and their style of blending proggy/avant metal and Hungarian folk music remains unique and a joy to listen to. 'Vilagnak vilaga' is another highlight showcasing excellent traditionally sung vocals. It is a bit hard to keep up with their albums as they tend to be prolific but I have never been burnt by them and they do the metal plus folk thing about as good as anyone. 'Vakond' is really cool as well.
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| 4.0 excellent | fantalas | November 23rd 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Spag | November 3rd 25 |
| 3.0 good | manosg EMERITUS | April 2nd 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | kabster | March 20th 25 |
| 4.5 superb | Sasaboy | January 13th 25 |
| 3.5 great | hadriel | December 31st 24 |
| 3.0 good | Marci | December 30th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. EMERITUS | December 18th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Chrysoar | December 17th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Risodo | November 25th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | mikep87 | November 23rd 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lani | November 23rd 24 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | November 20th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Elynna | November 20th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Scheumke | November 19th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | mRA | November 19th 24 |
| 3.0 good | 8genre | November 19th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | KManoc1 | November 19th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Sunnyvale EMERITUS | November 18th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | November 18th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zakusz | November 18th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | EvoHavok | November 17th 24 |
| 2.5 average | Ryan P STAFF | November 16th 24 |
| 3.4 great | Trey STAFF | November 16th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | November 16th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Komodog | November 15th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juuso | November 15th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | ariich | November 15th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | JoneHK | November 15th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | madtwoo | November 15th 24 |
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