Metal Reviews

hehe, you are probably right. But i find i can look past that as the songs themselves easily outdo grom and As the forests dream eternally. (Which isnt to say that i dont like those albums. I love all bm era behemoth)

Recently purchased - Xasthur - Self titled EP

i got a Windir t-shirt today.. yipiiii!!!

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain : 2LP including an extra track


so far a bit "meh"... a bit too much ambient post-rock thingy for my taste, it's not that i don't like it, i just don't like it in an agalloch-context, at times those tracks just seems to be fillers.. had hoped that i would be a bit more like the old stuff, with more normal tracks like the old stuff. There's a few awsome tracks, though

but i will give it some more spins...

I just got mine yesterday. I haven't played it even though I really want to hear the new track and how the sound compares overall to the cd.

I wasn't quite as into it at first listen either, and I'm sure some people never will be. For me though, after a few spins... Oh my, it's really a gorgeous album, and I'm to the point now where I pretty much find it impossible to pick a favorite Agalloch relese.

-Tyrion

I listened to it again today. I'm not a huge fan of the post-rock song cycle at the end of the album but the other 4 complete songs are all very good. They are never going to make another Pale Folklore and I'm fine with that now.

Rakoth - Tiny Deaths
Rakoth - Planetshift
Summoning - Stronghold
Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
Swallow The sun - Ghosts of Loss
Ablaze in Hatred - Deceptive Awareness

Mysticum - Lost Masters of the Universe.

listened to Ashes against the grain again just now... it seemed pretty good now. It was the cd version however. I think the extra track ruins the balance - too much post-rock/ambient sheize. It seemed way better without that.. nice.

Sigh-Gallows Gallery
I bought it online, so it hasn't arrived yet

A pathogen t-shirt.

Destruction - Thrash Anthems

Venom - Resurrection

Can anyone post the correct track listing to Thrash Anthems? Mine is very screwed up. All the tracks are named wrong, and I can't seem to figure out which one is which.

Decapitated - The Negation

Now my Decapitated collection is complete!

Dimmy - For All Tid
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Witchery - Restless & Dead
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Destruction - Sentence of Death/Infernal Overkil/Mad Butcher/Eternal Devestation

Valar - Magic And Wyrmfire

what the fuck man, this shit is gay. Everytime I try to buy something out of the ordinary to give other genres a chance, this happens. Luckily it was only 9 bucks or I'd be pissed.

The music side of things isnt terrible to be honest, but the vocals.. what the hell, why are they so low in the mix? I hate it. Oh well, I'll give it some more time, I did just get home.

Maybe you should listen to it before you buy it, or read some reviews on it.

Couldnt, the store is a good distance from home and I dont get there that often, plus alot of metalheads go there, I took a chance on something hoping for it to be really cool. Since I wrote that actually Ive listened to the whole album, the intsrumental tracks are cool and the music in the other songs is pretty good, the vocals are atrocious. However I can ignore them, I dont regret buying it anymore.

Also, isnt it fun buying an album with abit of mystery, not knowing every little detail about it? Sometimes I like to do that, if I didnt I wouldnt be into Anathema right now, so sometimes it works.

Carcass - Choice Cuts

Rainbow Live in Munich 1977

Awesome. Catch the Rainbow is such a good song.

In Flames - Whoracle (Deluxe Edition)
Carcass - Heartwork

Bathory-S/T

Anyone else noticed the startling similarity between Burzum's "War" and Bathory's "Necromansy"?