Very balanced songwriting full of catchy sections and riff paradise. Somewhat pagan-feeling in some of its melodies. Recommended for 2nd-wave yearnings.   Sep 27, 2022

Criticize me if you want, but I'm giving this album such a high score partly because of the amazing pieces of visual art and the story they tell. The music is also super powerful, Actually I started off in a bad mood because I assumed it was Modern Day Babylon type sound. This band is very deathy, even more so than Meshuggah. The vocals are not my cup of tea, but I still found it extremely hard to stop replaying this album. It sounds mysterious and the artwork is so surreal.   Sep 26, 2022

A little hard for me to rank. It's funerary mournfulness is lush, but I feel if a similar song is played by Evoken, Evoken's would have more tightness and urgency that just jump right out of from the sound and fill one's chest. Anyway, enjoyable as bloody heck.   Sep 25, 2022

Fun compositions and beautifully layered, building to huge crescendos.   Sep 25, 2022

When you listen to Summoning and similar bands, did you ever want the black metal element to be more raw, underground, and frantically evil? This album is exactly that. It's definitely a fun combination the way Gusforladt does it. Recommended.   Sep 25, 2022

I had this terrible dream where someone told me it's impossible to play very happy & lively melodies in bleak and angry genres of music. Like how when standing you can lift your right foot up, or the left, but both is just not possible. I was all depressed. After waking up I played this album and realized it was just a very bad and totally untrue dream. Now the earth is a magical wonderland..... well at least this album sounds like it is.   Sep 25, 2022

Wow wow wow wow. Insane progressive metal, mixed with a death metal that's surprisingly atmospheric, and just a skosh of black metal in the mix. It's a lot of genres, but you can also clearly hear that sometimes they fully step outside of the genres' framework and just play truly original compositions. I find the first 5 songs have the most power, but it's a total class act from start to finish. Unforgettable.   Sep 25, 2022

Guitar-wise, it's fuzzy grinding paradise. Sometimes I like burly vocals, but the ones on this album aren't quite my thing. On the other hand, it does a great job of playing very modern metal that also lets you feel those important Sabbath roots.   Sep 25, 2022

Great songwriting and genuine passion fill this powerful 1-hour 2-minute album of nature-worshiping melancholy. You'll take a journey through all of autumn and finally welcome winter's chill.   Sep 25, 2022

Tons & tons of fun.   Sep 24, 2022

Very kult with strangled vocals and tons of evil. Sometimes nice and catchy too. I have a feeling some black metal fans will give this one a perfect score.   Sep 24, 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed this album. I was a little afraid I was going to find it too corny, but I learned it's exactly corny enough. Also, at one point it gets really folky, and at another it sounds just like Pink Floyd. Both of those added to the fun.   Sep 24, 2022

Relaxing & bluesy. Also matches well with the space theme.   Sep 24, 2022

Fantastically insane and mindwarping rhythms. I think they found the Necromonicon and summoned some squids from another dimension as session musicians.   Sep 24, 2022

Now this is just the kind of stuff I'm looking for. It's well played and very sleekly produced. It's also noticeably more exciting than his previous albums. Great progress and a happy surprise.   Sep 24, 2022

I was wondering when a metal band would have saxophone throughout the whole album instead of just a solo or 2. Mute Ocean does that apparently, and they do it well too. I got those enjoyable frigid feelings for a whole hour, plus a somewhat trippy feeling from the sax. Nice.   Sep 24, 2022

Good, not great. A lot of the lyrics have too many concepts to be evocative. The good compositions start with Track 4, and Track 5 is my favorite. Billy Howerdel doesn't shine until late in the album. It's not as gorgeous as Mer De Noms or 13th Step, but there's still a ton of noice moments.   Sep 21, 2022

This reminds me of when their 2007 album came out and I just had to buy it. Clutch's music is still fresh, and these guys must be staying young in the right part of their hearts. Hard rocking with passion. The last song is slow and not up to the level of excellence as the rest of the album, Anyway, thank you Clutch.   Sep 20, 2022

My pick of the day. Very Mayhem sounding in all the best ways. The vocalist gets totally piercing sometimes, and the songs are mostly freezing but vigorous at the same time. USA black metal is so often atmospheric, progressive, avant-garde, or post. It's great to hear classic 90s style from new US artists. Also yes, please use Sephiroth's bell everyone; he's been dead for 20 or so years: he doesn't need it.   Sep 20, 2022

Very good production and the djent works with the songwriting very well. I think with some lines where Tatiana's vocals are more like talking, they missed a chance team up with one of the other members to give the vocals more variety. Unfortunately their is too much singing at many points. However, the passion is totally high on this. It's hard to decide if it gets an 85 or a 90.....   Sep 20, 2022

Based on what I heard on this album, I might become a huge fan of this band a lot sooner than I learn how they actually want us to pronounce their name. Solid throughout with that grim black death sound, and to my ears getting a skosh proggy at times. Really enjoyed it.   Sep 20, 2022

I hear the fundamental elements of black metal working very well here. The guitars are icy and the compositions are scary in a fun way. Good early album by Behemoth.   Sep 20, 2022

Not so great for me. Well played, but the songs don't make a point, and sometimes there's too much singing. I was going to go lower, but tracks 7 to 9 were more satisfying.   Sep 20, 2022

Very satisfying mix of heaviness & aggression with the eerie gothic female vocals.   Sep 19, 2022

Massive in its melancholy, and it has intelligible lyrics that are effective and actually about something. This artist shows us respect by thinking about what he writes before releasing it.   Sep 19, 2022

Their first full-length and it's really good. Sometimes it sounds a bit like jazz. I think they were incorporating a bit of it as they developed their own original style over the next few years.   Sep 19, 2022

Fantastic in all imaginable ways.   Sep 19, 2022

With this very commercial sound & production, I tried hard to dislike this music but I actually really liked it. It has atmosphere, emotion, & attitude. I hope they have other albums this good.   Sep 18, 2022

Great guitar sounds on a very dank new album from a dank band from Denmark who chose an awesome band name.   Sep 18, 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