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4.5 superb | Highlander79 | December 18th 10 | Something that Trey mentioned in the review early on really stuck out to me when I finally bought this album. It's sound can only be described as huge, sprawling, epic, and beautifully dystopian. To get what I'm saying, try this: listen to Marianas Trench by August Burns Red or the Sound of Truth by AILD, or at least the opening. Then listen to Empire or New Aurora. the difference is mind blowing, not because ABR suck as musicians (they don't) but because there is so much more going on underneath the main thrust in the case of AVL. The subdivided, off-beat, lightning speed snare riffs are incredibly fun, as is the military precision double-bass, and the way the two play into one another. But listen to the underlying guitar bits, the way the sound shift doesn't feel the slightest bit forced, even when it goes from hell-bent anvil crushing to piano. I'm usually a verse-chorus, melody-heavy kinda rock/punk fan. but this... these guys are doing what Underoath wishes they could do. Maybe a good way to describe this is Periphery but better and without making the studio effects the primary means of delivery. I dunno. But what i do know is that I thought I was growing out of my metal phase. I wasn't. I was just tired of the same boring, forced shit and hadn't heard this.
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5.0 classic | sspedding | May 22nd 11 | One of the greatest post metal albums ever written and recorded. Period.
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4.0 excellent | Trey STAFF | January 22nd 20 | Imagine, if you will, the chaotic post-hardcore riffs of Define the Great Line-era Underoath combined with the expansive peaks and valleys of a latter-day Isis track, add a bit of math metal to the mix, and finally push up the levels of intensity as well as the ambient atmospheres and you’ll have a basic idea of what to expect. The problem is that until you actually receive the frenzied bludgeoning this album delivers, you’re still probably not even close to knowing what is actually on The Long Procession. The riffs are crushing and chaotic, the drummer is a beast on the kit, and the growled/screamed vocals are pummling. Even when they move into a more melodic moment or switch to clean singing, the sheer intensity doesn’t let up at all. In between all of this dissonance is moments of electronic ambience that serves as excellent transitional pieces between each chaotic episode. No matter what you think you’re going to hear on The Long Procession you’re still in for a surprise.
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3.0 good | Apollo | January 23rd 12 | This lost a lot of its appeal over repeated listens....
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3.5 great | Crowe | August 11th 11 | Ug, The Long Procession is really, really good. Amia Venera Landscape put work by similar contemporaries Devil Sold His Soul and Rinoa to shame rather easily. But here's the thing that sucks: it's too fucking long. The band uses up all of its ideas by the time "Marasm" is in the midst of escalating to the heavens. It's frustrating. Just cut the fat next time, and they'll have an easy metalcore-atmospheric sludge-post-hardcore-whatever classic on their hands.
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4.5 superb | Lordpanch | April 26th 11 | Amia venera components live 10 kms from my town, so i should promote them, but i'm sincere, for me the long procession has good but also negative aspects. One of that is not to sing in their original language
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3.5 great | InvertedChurch | March 27th 11 | Even though massive in sound, the songs just don't stick.
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4.5 superb | ChildOfHate | March 14th 11 | Amazing album. It is expansive, chaotic and beautiful. The drummer is a god-damn machine and the guitarists can play some really technical riffs. But the quality that makes this album so good is the songwriting, which is almost perfect. Now, if only they'd cut out most of "Ascension" and left out "Infinite Sunset of the Sleepless Man", this would be a Perfect album.
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4.5 superb | iwubmoosik | March 12th 11 | god dayum, this album sexed me up
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5.0 classic | Redman54 | February 24th 11 | It hard to combine so many styles and succeed with it. Amia Venera Lanscape have done it here with complete finesse, so what the ambient sections to go on for a little too long >cough ascending cough< but I can look past it because everything is so well crafted here.
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4.5 superb | MalConstant | March 17th 23 | Baby come back, any kind of fool could seerThere was something in everything about yourBaby come back, you can blame it all on merI was wrong and I just can't live without you
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4.2 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | June 23rd 20 | Damn why didn't I discover this back in 2010? 2000s post-hardcore's striking riffs and clean vocals, metalcore's technicality, post-metal's atmosphere and crushing vocals, and ambient passages give the whole lot more weight: this is a fucking great mix of influences. What's interesting is how they chose to vary their soundscape: sometimes you'll get a post-rock/post-hardcore part, followed by a post-metal one, stopping for a short metalcore passage, then rising into a post-metal/post-hardcore epic. They know how to use their influences to create a quite unique sound. Ofc it's a tad too long, and some parts are ever-so-slightly dragging, but this an enormous album, the kind of dense work you have to come back to to fully digest.
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3.5 great | Chino smoking it up! | June 26th 19 | Drumming and atmo are superb here...not digging the melodic vocals, not even a bit...not the vocals per se, but in terms of the songwriting...feels somewhat dated emo idk...not feeling it. The rest is very Cult of Luna/ The Ocean post. cool stuff. Recd Tracks - Marasm; Nichòlas
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4.0 excellent | Bedex | May 30th 19 | Temporary rating as I had godawful poor listening condition, plus was not paying enough attention. Almost would 4.3 it right now though. Really diverse, and managed to make me like vocals I usually find annoying borderline insufferable. Post-rock, post-hardcore, post-metal, post everything, with intelligent interludes and shifts in atmospheres, instrumentation, and vocals. MUST re-listen. 4.2
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4.5 superb | Have you tried jamming Helcaraxe? CONTRIBUTOR | January 12th 18 | This is both beautiful and earth-shattering, containing some of the most intense and spastic section I've heard In an album. The vocals are like an ocean wave, coming in both calm and drawn out tides while also coming in like a fully-fledged tsunami. Really, only one word can describe this, and that is-monolithic.
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3.5 great | Alex C. | January 15th 16 | It is quite overrated, at least here on Sput. The mix between atmospherics and metal is not properly balanced and this results in listening to the whole piece as a boresome experience. But some tracks slay and the potential for something great is definitely there.
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4.5 superb | Abrogation | December 7th 12 | The perfect mix of Math, Post-Metal & Ambiance. Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time.
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4.5 superb | peterdigiacomo | October 17th 12 | I think a 5 is a little too high for this album actually. A 4.5 is good enough!
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4.5 superb | CrimsonLies | August 19th 12 | By far one of the best debuts released by the Italian scene, launching itself ahead of numerous post metal bands. From crushing guitars, bone chilling vocals to the sound of pounding, monumental drumming, the wall of sounds this band produces is not confined within the mountains of percussion but rather explores and expands into the landscape it has defined.
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4.5 superb | DomesticTerrorist | June 29th 12 | Intensely heavy and beautiful. Supreme in atmosphere and technically amazing. I just want more.
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0.0 | Julianna Reed EMERITUS | May 22nd 12 | The Long Procession is pure, unadulterated emotion that throws its punches patiently. There's a gut-wrenching moment in each song here, and while the album could be a little shorter it's strikingly potent. Metalcore mingles with its sister subgenres to create something extraordinary, and we're all waiting with bated breath for what these gentlemen do next.
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4.0 excellent | Jezzami | May 21st 12 | First 2 tracks are amazing but then it kinda burns out..
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5.0 classic | immortalizepain | January 12th 12 | For a very long piece of art, one's exhaustion will be predictable after listening to this.
For a genre that's starting to wane, this band brought out a different output just by mixing
out those cliched simple, obvious techniques. Highlighting technicality put no drawback to
their sense of creativity.
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4.0 excellent | asaf | December 22nd 11 | one of the only extreme metal albums i can doze off to...
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4.5 superb | MasBarHigeuoris21 | November 23rd 11 | One of the most brutal, heaviest metal albums I have ever heard. Marasm is a beast of a track and a great instrumental. This album would be a five it wasn't for Ascending and Glances Part I. However, those misses don't really do too much to take away from this incredible album. Can't wait to hear more music from them in the future.
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4.5 superb | theskyatnight | September 2nd 11 | More originality than your mom's gorgeous friend with elegance and style and class.
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4.0 excellent | BurnedBlack606 | August 16th 11 | Pretty damn good when it gets going, but there's way too much filler bullshit to make a full listen worthwhile.
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4.0 excellent | patrickfannon | August 5th 11 | The sound of the end of the world in the key of Green.
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5.0 classic | xandermander | July 1st 11 | It took a few listens, and being a long album it took me a while, but after about 8 plays this album just becomes the tits.
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3.0 good | iatemyparot00 | January 20th 11 | it's good but there are way too many passages of ambiance that really don't add to the album
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4.5 superb | HereComesTheStorm33 | January 7th 11 | The only problem here is the duration of the ambient sections. That apart, this is a vicious metal assault, with great riffs, precise drumming, and a great voice. This is absolutely notable, considering that "The Long Procession" is this band's debut.
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0.0 | Motiv3 | December 19th 10 | Coming in Late in 2010, Amia Venera Landscape's debut The Long Procession is definitely something special. Its very easy to compare this albums sound to other bands and genres in parts and certainly is not short of influences,however this album to me is simply genreless. Whilst this album is a bit too long (albeit, the ambient passages) and is lacking a little in cohesion, Amia Venera Landscape have a unique sound which is not too commonly replicated in a debut. With The Long Procession being a lot to take in, i wouldnt be surprised if this grew on me more with several more listens. Top 10 of 2010.
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