My favorite from these guys so far. The deep sadness is exquisite, but there's more monstrous death doom on this one, but that stuff is great too, and don't let me mislead, it stays on plodding funeral rhythms.   Nov 10, 2022

This starts off with atmospheric black metal, then directly goes into just about half of the metal sub-genres that exist. I think the 2nd track is even groove metal with some death metal influence. Impressively, each style is performed with genuine passion for it, and it's all executed well. Highly recommended to metalheads.   Nov 10, 2022

These killer riffs are so fuzzy they might perm your hair. It's more stoner than doom. If that's fine with you, then definitely give this one a try.   Nov 10, 2022

Good doom, with some very creative drumming parts. Actually, all the aspects of this album are nice, but I feel they could've tinkered with exactly how to play it, and then it would have an even bigger impact.   Nov 9, 2022

Some really groovy movements, and it incorporates a shredding sound uncommon in black metal. These guys have their own style, and here they've made a nice unnerving album.   Nov 9, 2022

Impressive, unique, and very well executed. I heard these guys earned their reputation for blackened thrash. This album has such an interesting blend of genres. To a lesser extent, you'll hear prog, post-metal, heavy metal, metalcore, & even a little death metal mixed in. Respect to these guys for putting in all their favorite parts of their favorite genres, and the album cover is friggin cool.   Nov 8, 2022

Either their best or in the top 3 for the Wolves! Female vocals, Drudkh influence, 2nd wave Norwegian influence, tolling bells, & blasts of harshness like the blowing of a destructive wind make this one of those perfect atmospheric black metal albums.   Nov 8, 2022

For some unknown reason the album title really appealed to me. This music is very good for increasing your libido for everyone's shared goal of breeding the demonic army for world domination. The downside is that, after listening to this black metal with evil organ playing, you might crave Count Chocula, which is unhealthy.   Nov 6, 2022

I really enjoyed this djent album. The song 'Dreamer' has some emo-sounding vocals that make me cringe a little, but it's a little flaw for an album packed with inspiration.   Nov 6, 2022

Soaring beautiful melodies with prog complexity. 95% of the time it avoids sounding corny, which is a commendable feat.   Nov 6, 2022

Impressively thick sound with a surly feel.   Nov 6, 2022

I was instantly swept away into a fog and floated for 37 minutes. When it ended I was surprised so much time had passed. Also gravity existed again at that point.   Nov 6, 2022

For the first half of the album I felt most songs were just so-so, but I really liked most of the songs on the 2nd half, where the melodies were a lot more interesting. It turned out to be a very nice mix of 90s and early 2000s influences.   Nov 6, 2022

Cult of Fire deserve their name. The burning passion on this short EP is astounding. It starts off sounding kinda pagan to me, and the 2nd track is textbook atmospheric black metal done to perfection. What a band.   Nov 4, 2022

I was totally cheered up by the rich industrial soundscape and energetic instrumentation on this one. It was also fun to discover how lighthearted the songwriting felt and how that makes the short track lengths more fitting, which I was guessing were going to be a negative for me. Great album.   Nov 4, 2022

Enjoyably dark & airy atmosphere and great driving beats. A little here & there, I don't like the singer's approach though he is rather accomplished. Also, I was very happy to hear gothic metal that's not a hybrid with another sub-genre. Overall, it's a very high quality album.   Nov 4, 2022

Incredible! It's a very long album with tons of slow music, and it never loses energy. It totally changed the way the world around me looked. Respect to Esoteric.   Nov 4, 2022

Overall enjoyable and quite a journey. The metalcore moments and some of the singing diminish my enjoyment, but I'm guessing that, for metalcore fans, this stuff is well executed. The progressive & djent are the reasons I listened, and Augment delivered some great music in those genres.   Nov 4, 2022

This is a solid straight black metal album / all the songs on it are good.   Nov 3, 2022

Awesome album! It's often very bluesy, and draws from classic rock, but I even hear some Koяn influence. This is a very fresh take on rock and metal, and the instrumentation is electrifying.   Nov 3, 2022

Very solid album, perfectly blended combination of all the most foundational black metal bands.   Nov 3, 2022

Nice gruff stoner metal.   Nov 3, 2022

Gorgeous and epic with a film-score style. At parts it's just symphonic music with harsh vocals. Where it goes full metal, I find it Burzum-style, but even better. I remembered liking it when it was new, today I listened again, and love it even more.   Nov 3, 2022

Incredible album with the most intense & moving sense of nostalgia I've ever heard. After the midpoint it also gets vicious and evil as you could imagine. Not to be missed.   Nov 3, 2022

This album has some real energy and passion to it, with good vocals. Though some other albums are just average for me, I'm glad I gave Kalmankantaja another try.   Nov 2, 2022

Talk about ambitious, maybe the most ambitious this year. It weaves from black metal, through so many other sub-genres, and then back again. Disc 3 is a 53-minute song. Yup.   Nov 2, 2022

Truly great album. I used to have this one on regular rotation when it was new. Very dark, smashing, & pummeling, but it also has those melancholic post-metal high notes. I really wish this artist had more albums.   Nov 2, 2022

Solid album that is 100% in 2nd wave mode. I also really like the title of track 9 for some reason. Hail Cthulhu.   Nov 2, 2022

Nice cold & evil on this, and yet another very good black metal band I learn of here. How many million German BM bands have released something in 2022?   Nov 2, 2022

죽어버린 남자다움에 오함마로 심폐소생을 시키는 앨범. 멈췄던 심장이 그들의 리프와 드럼을 따라 다시 뛰기 시작한다.   Nov 1, 2024

스래쉬 음반을 언급할 때 항상 다섯 손가락 안에 꼽는 앨범...모든 곡이 베스트일 정도로 완벽하다. 개인적으로 Stronger Than Hate을 가장 좋아한다.   Nov 6, 2024

85-90, 예전에 빽판으로 즐기던 음반. 운이 좋게 다시 시디로 구입하게 들어보게 되었다. 지금 이 시점에서는 좋게 들렸고 시원시원했다. 녹음은 거칠긴 하나 가끔 너무 갑갑한 믹싱이 되어 있는 메탈음반이 많은데 차라리 이런 식으로 만드는게 낫다 싶다. 1,2집도 언제인가는 구해지지 않을까 생각해본다.   Oct 30, 2024

어쿠스틱 기타, 첼로, 플루트 등을 이용하여 녹음한 어쿠스틱 사운드의 작품이다. 그러나 표현하고자 하는 사운드의 방향성 자체는 무겁고 진지하다. 멜로디가 약간 서늘한 냉기를 품고 있다. 더운 여름에 들으면 시원함을 느낄 수도 있지만 대체로 가을의 분위기에 잘 어울린다. 커버아트와 음악의 매칭이 절묘하다.   Nov 4, 2024

90-95. 이 시기의 블가 앨범들은 다 좋은 듯. hansi의 보컬을 더 느끼고 싶어서 사모으기 시작한 앨범인데 그렇다고 나랑 맞는 음악을 하는 밴드가 아닐 수 있었지만 지금까지 몇번들어본 결과는 만족스러운 행진 중이다. the eldar같은 곡은 지금의 나에게는 최고의 곡. 인트로+본곡 같은 스타일로 중복이 되는데 큰 단점같지는 않다. 조화롭게 잘 넘어갔다.   Nov 8, 2024

95-100 2024년까지 나온 오케스트라와의 협연 음반 모든 것을 통틀어 최고다. 다 어설픈 편곡때문에 그냥 원곡 듣고 말지 라는 생각이 드는 반면 이 음반은 최소 제대로 만들어진 영화음악 하나 들었다 할 정도로 편곡자체가 매우 잘 되어 밴드와 오케스트라가 제대로 융화 예상과 달리 스튜디오로 앨범을 냈지만 dvd 2disc를 사면 라이브 시디가 포함되어 있는 듯 하다.   3 days ago

85- 90 채스틴의 기타가 바삐 움직인다. 당시의 다른 기타리스트와는 다른 맛이 있다. 레더 레온은 참 좋은 보컬같다라고 생각을 또 하게 되었다.   Oct 27, 2024

라센은 일본 빅터에서 받아 동일하게 12번 "Rainy Nights"이 더 들어가 있다. 앙그라 초기는 의외로 많이 듣지 않아 생각보다 익숙하지 않은 면이 있다. 현재는 이 정도 점수를 주고 다음에 또 감상하면서 고쳐보도록 하겠다   Oct 28, 2024

Their most representative album of the eighties, full of innovation and class, with forceful themes and a benchmark in style for the hard rock genre, in fact it is their best-selling work to date! My personal precise rating is (94/100) Faves: Criyng In The Rain and Don´t Turn Away!   Oct 30, 2024

완벽하다. 지금와서 painkiller 정도의 힘을 기대하는 것은 무리지만 관록과 경험으로 영그러진 놀라운 앨범을 냈다. 엔지니어링도 크게 한몫했다.   Oct 31, 2024

옛 모습이 그립다. 그래도 화이팅!   Nov 1, 2024

조금도 기대안했었는데….훌륭합니다!!   Nov 1, 2024

온갖 괴생물체들이 꿈틀거리는듯한 아트워크의 세계관이 펼쳐지며..끈적이는 불협화음 데스 사운드에 빨려든다.   Nov 6, 2024

The album finds Blood Incantation returning to their death metal roots with renewed psychedelic vigour, eager to tear apart familiar metallic ideas   Nov 6, 2024

80-90. 메킹 커멘트를 보고 얼라이브를 베스트 대용으로 해도 된다는 의견에 2,3를 사게 되었는데 1,3에만 rock and roll all nite가 있다는 것을 다시 여기서도 알립니다. 이번에 사게된 앨범이 일본반 shm-cd 규격인데 음질이 나쁜게 아니지만 2보다는 살짝 거친게 아닌가 싶다. 아직까지는 얼라이브 시리즈+일반 스튜디오 베스트 조합으로 끝낼 생각.   Nov 6, 2024

85-90 기본적으로 2010년 이후 이들의 앨범이 특별히 구리다고 생각이 든 적이 없다. 이번 앨범은 기다려도 라센이 안나와서 결국 수입반을 샀다. 전체적인 곡 수준, 연주 수준 모든게 긍정적 방향이다.   Nov 6, 2024

85-95. 5번은 후기 대표곡. 커버한 밴드가 sodom , megadeth, helloween, Jorn 등이 있다. 필 라이엇이 안죽었다면 사이크스가 백사로 과연 넘어갔을까 하는 생각과 씬 리지가 꽤나 터프한 느낌도 갖게 되는 과정이었는데 이 미래가 재미있었겠다 라는 생각이 드는 앨범.   Nov 6, 2024

Very good work on guitars,a tight rhythm sectionand lots of keyboards effects the way only FATES WARNING teached to play !   Nov 7, 2024

훌륭한 데뷰. 1집을 꼭 사야 할까라는 생각으로 살다가 이제야 얻어걸린 느낌으로 사게 되었다. 물론 1집을 필수라고 여기지 않았지만 후회도 없다. 보컬이 멤버들보다 나이가 10여살 많은 걸로 기억하고 게디리의 좀 더 듣기 좋은 버전이라고 생각이 든다. 다만 믹싱이 마음에 들지 않아서 살짝 밋밋하다. 보컬과 드럼이 살짝 뒤로 간 느낌.리믹스가 절실하나 과연?   Nov 7, 2024