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| 2.0 poor | Ossacip Olbap | October 28th 23 |
modern blargh bm spliced with prog bullshit
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| 4.0 excellent | OllieS | September 24th 12 |
There are many good things about 'Underwatermoon'. It is an example of how to be creative in a genre (extreme Metal) which is often limited by an excessive focus on riffs and needing to be 'heavy'. Yet it can still provide the 'heavy', with excellent harsh vocals and an extremely focussed drum performance. The problem is that the band hasn't yet harnessed or refined their creativity: many of the songs feel disjointed (see the title track and 'the Curse of Gypsy'). There are many excellent passages, but these come randomly; indeed, the best parts of the album, in 'Wreckage Ghost' ('I tried to follow her...') and 'Hunting the Human' (the first chorus), are where there is a clear direction or journey towards the climatic passage. The disjointed nature of the songs hurts their flow, making them feel bloated, even if there are excellent parts within them. The other issue is the clean vocals aren't good enough to provide the depth and melody they intend to add, limiting the potential of the parts where they're used; 'And Flames...' is fantastic due to the female vocals - on the others it seems the band is trying so hard to not sound like Power Metal that the clean vocals suffer. Add to this a large album length, which makes the songs susceptible to blending together, and you have many problems which cannot be overcome, despite the excellent songwriting and genius which this band definitely does possess. I look forward to hearing more from them in the future, when the songwriting is refined.
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| 0.0 | TheStig | January 2nd 11 |
Not the album I was expecting it to be. Sitting under "Black Metal" is a bit deceiving. Black metal elements are abundantly present, as are progressive tendencies. Beautiful interludes of synths and acoustics giving a bit of a medieval feel, varied vocals, and massive riffs make this album stand out. Underwatermoon is a monstrous record, that can definitely be intimidating. However, it's one of my frontrunners for 2010.
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| 4.0 excellent | Babyss | September 10th 10 |
This was a surprise! It can easily enter the great symphonic BM league where Carach Angren, Mirrorthrone, Septic Flesh and Transcending Bizarre belong to
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| 3.5 great | Spag | May 22nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | em17ah | March 29th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brandon | October 22nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | April 20th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Legit | October 22nd 12 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | May 2nd 11 |
| 3.0 good | itchy | March 1st 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Toretto | December 21st 10 |
| 3.5 great | Jebull | November 21st 10 |
| 2.5 average | lobby | November 17th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | pixmpy | November 5th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Oceans | November 4th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | advate | October 19th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | BlueW | October 4th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Zion | September 24th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Kyle Ward EMERITUS | September 19th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hawks | September 15th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | jrowa001 | September 14th 10 |
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