Erebus666
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Average Rating: 3.68
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5.0 classic
Ad Nauseam Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation
Atheist Unquestionable Presence
Augury Fragmentary Evidence
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Death Symbolic
Death Human
Demilich Nespithe
Gorguts Obscura
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance
Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame
Necrophagist Epitaph
Opeth Blackwater Park
Steely Dan Aja
Ulcerate Everything Is Fire

4.5 superb
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Ad Nauseam Live at Roadburn
Allan Holdsworth All Night Wrong
Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon
Artificial Brain Artificial Brain
Blood Incantation Starspawn
Brand X Unorthodox Behaviour
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool
Dead and Dripping Nefarious Scintillations
Death The Sound of Perseverance
Death Individual Thought Patterns
Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus
Defeated Sanity Chronicles of Lunacy
Donald Fagen The Nightfly
Drift Lab Moonlight
Gigan The Order of the False Eye
Gigan Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity
Gorguts Colored Sands
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust
Ihsahn After
Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury
Imperial Triumphant Alphaville
Imperial Triumphant An Evening with Imperial Triumphant
Imperial Triumphant Goldstar
Intronaut Valley Of Smoke
Katatonia Night Is the New Day
Kexelur Epigrama De Un Pasado Perdido
Kostnateni Úpal
Leprous Bilateral
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire
Martyr Feeding the Abscess
Maruja Pain to Power
Nile Those Whom The Gods Detest
Absolutely crushing record. Technical as hell. Only thing keeping this from perfection is a slightly better production. However, this is by no means poorly produced, it's the only Nile album that is actually well produced. Part of the reason why it's my favorite Nile album.
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Skin Tension Inaugurate Renaissance
Soundtrack (Film) The Crow
Steely Dan Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan The Royal Scam
Steely Dan Katy Lied
Steely Dan Gaucho
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Toughness Black Respite of Oblivion
Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis

4.0 excellent
Abysmal Descent Dismal Thoughts
Adversarial Solitude with the Eternal...
Agropelter The Book of Hours
Ancient Death Ego Dissolution
Baring Teeth Atrophy
Baring Teeth The Path Narrows
Blood Incantation Interdimensional Extinction
Blood Incantation Hidden History Of The Human Race
Blood Incantation Live Vitrification
Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge
Blood Monolith The Calling of Fire
Burning Palace Elegy
Cadaveric Fumes Dimensions Obscure
Cadaveric Fumes Echoing Chambers Of Soul
Cancer Void First Metastasis
Casimir Liberski Cosmic Liberty
Catatonic Effigy Putrid Tendency
Cephalic Carnage Anomalies
Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien
Cephalic Carnage Lucid Interval
Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty
Chaos Inception Vengeance Evangel
Coffin Curse The Continuous Nothing
Cognizant Inexorable Nature of Adversity
Continuum Of Xul Falling Into Damnation
Convulsing Perdurance
Corpus Offal Corpus Offal
Deafheaven Lonely People With Power
Death Leprosy
Decryptal Simulacre
Defacement Duality
Defacement Doomed
Defeated Sanity Chapters of Repugnance
Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity
Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata
Diskord Degenerations
Donald Fagen Kamakiriad
Donald Fagen Sunken Condos
Elder (USA-MA) Liminality/Dream State Return
Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions
Exterior Palnet Haragma II
Flagelo Insaciable
Gigan Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
Gigan Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery...
Gigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence
Gleb Kolyadin Gleb Kolyadin
Gleb Kolyadin The Outland
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Gorguts Considered Dead
Hexvessel Nocturne
Hierarchies Hierarchies
Hiromi Out There
Hour of Penance The Vile Conception
Hour of Penance Paradogma
Hour of Penance mature their sound and songwriting and the result is one of the most
impressive modern death metal albums I've heard in recent memory.

With this album Hour of Penance have found a sound of their own. Much more dynamics in terms
of structure and songwriting than their previous works. Plenty of groovy sections you can
slam your head to. Sure there are slight references to other bands (Behemoth, Nile) but it's
a minor nitpick; there are very few DM bands that don't sound at least slightly like one
another.

While another fellow here mentions they barely miss the upper echelon, I can't help but
respectfully disagree. Not only do they match the upper echelon with this album but they
exceed. If they weren't already, Hour of Penance are now one of the top bands in their sub-
genre. For example Paradogma easily competes with Behemoth's Evangelion, and to my ears, is
superior.

Between this, Lost Soul's "Immerse In Infinity" and Fleshgod Apocalypse's "Oracles", I'd say
fans of the genre have plenty to look forward to.

Easily one of the best albums this year and I have a feeling it will make a lot of year-end
lists.
Imipolex Acts of Vulgar Piety
Imperial Triumphant Shrine to the Trident Throne
Imperial Triumphant Abyssal Gods
Imperial Triumphant Inceste
Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy
Imperial Triumphant Covers Collection
Kakothanasy Metagonism
Kamra Unending Confluence
Kostnateni Přílišnost
Kronos The Hellenic Terror
How is this band not signed to a major label? These guys should be headlining festivals. This shit is like Decapitated on steroids with some Necrophagist/Faceless style soloing thrown in to boot. Amazing album from an absolutely killer band! We'll miss you Kristof! Hopefully they can find a suitable replacement, and quick!
Labyrinthine Heirs Labyrinthine Heirs
Leprous Coal
Leprous The Congregation
Malacath Eternal Roar of the Thunder and Rain
Malthusian The Summoning Bell
Martrod Draumsýnir Eldsins
Maruja Tir na nÓg
Mary Halvorson About Ghosts
Matteo Mancuso The Journey
Messa Close
Messa The Spin
Mitochondrion Parasignosis
Mitochondrion Antinumerology
Mortual Altar of Brutality
Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction
Neptunian Maximalism Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu
Noise Trail Immersion Tutta la morte in un solo punto
Omnicidal Instinct Catharsis in Blight
Opeth The Last Will and Testament
Paroxysm Unit Fragmentation // Stratagem
Perishing Malicious Acropolis Unveiled
Putridity Morbid Ataraxia
Qrixkuor The Womb of the World
Retromorphosis Psalmus Mortis
Ritual Mass Cascading Misery
Rothadas Töviskert... a kísértés örök érzete.. Lidércharang
Sarmat Dubious Disk
Sarmat Upgrade
Sea Mosquito Fire, Magic & Venom
Sea Mosquito Majestas
Sepulcrum / Blood Oath / Nigromancia / Phantom Evoking the Abominations
Shardik Cruelty Bacchanal
Siderean Spilling the Astral Chalice
Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy
Steven Wilson Insurgentes
Steven Wilson 4 1/2
Strigiform Aconite
Suffering Hour In Passing Ascension
Suffering Hour Dwell
Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning
Suffering Hour Impelling Rebirth
Swans Birthing
Tenebrae in Perpetuum Vacuum Coeli
The Aristocrats Duck
The Faceless Planetary Duality
The Ominous Circle Cloven Tongues of Fire
The Overmold The Overmold
Theurgy Emanations of Unconscious Luminescence
Tigran Hamasyan Shadow Theater
Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot
Tomarum Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
Trauma (PL) Imperfect Like A God
Trauma (PL) DetermiNation
Killer Polish Death Metal. The way it should be done. Some awesome songwriting and dynamics on this album.
Undersave Merged in Abstract Perdition
Uulliata Digir Uulliata Digir
Veilburner The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom
Vile Apparition Malignity
Virvum Illuminance
Void Revenant Celestial Procession
VoidCeremony Abditum
Warp Chamber / Benothing Two-Song Split
Weeping Sores The Convalescence Agonies
Wobbler Hinterland
Wormrot Hiss

3.5 great
Acherontas Νekyia - The Necromantic Patterns
Act of Impalement Profane Altar
Amplifier Gargantuan
Antiversum De Nemesis Omnes et Omnia
Atavistic Decay Immakulate Invokations
Atrate Beyond Depth. Beyond Thought. Beyond Self
Barren Path Grieving
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Beyond Mortal Dreams Devastation Hymns
Bleed Bleed
Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere
ByoNoiseGenerator Subnormal Dives
Car Bomb Tiles Whisper Dreams
Caustic Wound Grinding Mechanism of Torment
Centuries of Decay A Monument to Oblivion
Charlie Griffiths Tiktaalika
Chepang Jhyappa
Clairvoyance Chasm of Immurement
Coffin Rot Dreams of the Disturbed
Compulsed Amalgamated Anguish
Continuum Of Xul Voratore
Cosmophage Sidereal Malignancy
Crypt Sermon Saturnian Appendices
Darkside Ritual Chamber of Deathlessness
Dawn of Ouroboros Bioluminescence
Dead Chasm Spectral Tyranny
Deathless Void The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin
Decrepit Birth Polarity
Defacement Deviant
Defacement Defacement
Deftones private music
Deliquesce Saviour / Enslaver
Dephosphorus Planetoktonos
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Innern
Diabolizer Murderous Revelations
Dione Astrolatry
Dispossessed (USA-OR) Democide
Donald Fagen Morph the Cat
Dormant Ordeal Tooth and Nail
Drawn and Quartered Lord of Two Horns
Dream Theater Parasomnia
Dwelling Below Wearisome Guardians
Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture
Escarnium Inexorable Entropy
Esoctrilihum Ghostigmatah – Spiritual Rites...
Execration (NOR) Odes Of The Occult
Fallujah Xenotaph
Falsus Evangelium Veneficvs, Barratry, et Magnvm Peccatvm
Felgrave Otherlike Darknesses
Five The Hierophant Apeiron
Fleshbore Painted Paradise
Floating The Waves Have Teeth
Floating Hesitating Lights
Foetorem Demo 2025
Frogg Eclipse
Grey Aura Zwart Vierkant: Slotstuk
Grog Sphere of Atrocities
Har Cursed Creation
Haxprocess Beyond What Eyes Can See
Heteropsy Embalming
Hexrot Formless Ruin of Oblivion
Hexrot Gloomwrought
Homunculus Promotional Demo MMXXIV
Hooded Menace Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
Hyperdontia Dormant Scourge
Ihlo Legacy
Inchoation From Nothingness... (demo)
Iniquitous Savagery Edifice of Vicissitudes
Innumerable Forms Pain Effulgence
Insineratehymn Irreverence of the Divine
Intricated Apocalyptic Metamorphosis
Kardashev Alunea
Keep of Kalessin Reptilian
Leprous Malina
Lugubrious Garment Demo MMXXV
LYXAETHERIVMINTHRAXAS Polymorph Particle Engagement
Malefic Throne The Conquering Darkness
Malformed Confinement of Flesh
Malignant (USA-CA) Reign of Decrepitude
Nahasheol Serpens Abyssi
Omegavortex Diabolic Messiah of the New World Order
Ossuary Abhorrent Worship
Panzerballett Übercode Œuvre
Patristic Catechesis
Pelican Flickering Resonance
Phobocosm Gateway
Phrenelith Ashen Womb
Pillars of Cacophony Paralipomena
Proscription Desolate Divine
Psychonaut World Maker
Putrescent (USA-CA) Darkness Embraced
Pyramid Mass Gargling Rot
Pyramid Mass Spewtrid
Rale Spirit Death
Revocation New Gods, New Masters
Ritual Ascension Profanation of the Adamic Covenant
Rwake The Return Of Magik
Sallow Moth Mossbane Lantern
Sallow Moth Blue Permutations
Sarmat Determined To Strike
Sedimentum Derri​è​re les Portes d'une Arcane Transcendante
Solfatare Asservis Par l’Espoir
Son of Aurelius The Farthest Reaches
Species Changelings
Steely Dan Two Against Nature
Steely Dan Everything Must Go
Steven Wilson The Overview
Summoning Hellgates Spear of Conquest
Teitanblood From the Visceral Abyss
Terror Corpse Ash Eclipses Flesh
Testament Para Bellum
Thanatorean Ekstasis of Subterranean Currents
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate
The Faceless Akeldama
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
Umulamahri Learning the Secrets of Acid
Unbirth Asomatous Besmirchment
Undeath Enter Patient/Endless Graveyard
Uthullun The Barbed Thread of Madness
Valdrin Apex Violator
Varnheim Void
Veilburner Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy

3.0 good
Abigail Williams A Void Within Existence
Acephalic Void We Chose Death
Akouphenom Connections To The Erebus
Allegaeon The Ossuary Lens
Atheist Jupiter
Bear Mace Slaves of the Wolf
Between the Buried and Me The Blue Nowhere
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One…
Blut Aus Nord Ethereal Horizons
Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Changeling (DEU) Changeling
Coroner Dissonance Theory
Crown of Madness Memories Fragmented
Cryptopsy An Insatiable Violence
Decedent For Those in Shallow Graves
Decima Pauvres Créatures
Defigurement Endbryo
Degraved Spectral Realm of Ruin
Deliberalize The Allure of Deceit
Depravity (AUS) Bestial Possession
Dessiderium Keys to the Palace
Dione Cosmosphere
Dysentery Dejection Chrysalis
Eschaton (USA) Techtalitarian
Execration (NOR) Return to the Void
Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia
Not as good as Oracles. Not enough new material.

The production of this CD was completely butchered. I'm pissed I paid money for it. Seems it was made from poor quality, lossy masters and the tracks are highly clipped.

Shame this happened, but oh well it's only an EP (and not a great one). Hopefully they're working on a full-length and hopefully the production on that isn't butchered.
Full of Hell Broken Sword, Rotten Shield
Gazpacho Magic 8-Ball
Glorious Depravity Death Never Sleeps
GoGo Penguin Necessary Fictions
Hamvak Maelstrom Of Abhorrent Incantations
Hate Bellum Regiis
Hell / Mizmor Alluvion
Krallice No Hope
Leprous Pitfalls
Leprous Aphelion
Leprous Melodies Of Atonement
Lurk Aegis
Miseration The Mirroring Shadow
Mitochondrion Vitriseptome
Ominous Ruin Requiem
Plasmodulated An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell
Prophetic Suffering Rivalry of Thyself
Pupil Slicer Fleshwork
Re-Buried Flesh Mourning
Ritual Fog / Chaos Relic Split
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Rivers of Nihil The Work
Sallow Moth Deformity in Ceremony
Sleep Token One
Sleep Token Two
Steven Wilson To the Bone
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex
Swelling Repulsion Fatally Misguided
Tentacult Synaptic Perfidy
The Acacia Strain You Are Safe From God Here
The Faceless Autotheism
The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost
The Last Felony Too Many Humans
The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine
Meh, it's alright. I prefer the previous 3 albums to this one.
Tiktaalika Gods of Pangaea
Trauma (PL) Archetype of Chaos
While this album certainly isn't bad. Trauma have unfortunately (at least for me) kept moving in a more "industrial/modern" direction since they chose to change it up after the release of DetermiNation (their last good album imho).

This is a continuation of the direction they took with their EP Hamartia and resulting LP Neurotic Mass. I only really like 2 tracks on this album, "A Dying World" and "The Slime". The rest are pretty forgettable.

If you're hoping for the kick-ass sound these guys had during their peak (Imperfect Like A God, DetermiNation) I'm afraid to tell you you're not going to find it here!

They recently reformed a new line-up with a full-time bassist and have Chudy back on vocals (he was vocalist during their peak period) so hopefully if they decide to keep making music they return to the roots that caused people to start taking notice.
Trauma (PL) Neurotic Mass
Trigger the Bloodshed Degenerate
Trypanon Through the Portal of Flesh to Achieve Divinity
Unaligned A Form Beyond
Vacuous In His Blood
Vildhjarta + där sjunger under evighetens granar +

2.5 average
Behemoth The Shit Ov God
Benthos From Nothing
Blood Incantation Timewave Zero
Ion Dissonance Cursed
Jakko M. Jakszyk Son of Glen
Machine Head Unatoned
Obscura A Sonication
Sepulchral Curse Crimson Moon Evocations
Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Sleep Token Sundowning
Steven Wilson The Future Bites
Tentacult Untamed Revulsion
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
Xenoautopsy Irreversible Anthropocide

2.0 poor
Crypts of Despair We Belong in the Grave
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Sleep Token Even in Arcadia
Vulvectomy Aberrant Vaginal Gestation

1.5 very poor
Pyramids Pythagoras

1.0 awful
Jane Remover Revengeseekerz
Veil of Maya [id]
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