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Yazz_Flute
April 27th 2009


19174 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This is better than Somberlain and Reinkaos.

SCREAM!
April 27th 2009


15755 Comments


This is better than Somberlain and Reinkaos.

That is blasphemy in its purest and simplest form

Crimson
April 27th 2009


1937 Comments


This is better than Dissection.

SCREAM!
April 27th 2009


15755 Comments


I just got Dissection's DVD in the mail and I am ready to defend them until death

But honestly, these guys are like dissection with poorer riffage.

Hyperbore
April 27th 2009


856 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

No, they're like Dissection with a cohesive theme to their melodic development throughout the whole album. Dissection just makes songs - Far Away from the Sun works like a symphony, each piece leads into and gives meaning to the next until the work is finished.



Also, Dissection's "riffage" is little more than an Iron Maiden ripoff. Which isn't to say that it's bad, but if one can say this album is a poor copy of Dissection(which is retarded), it should be even more obvious that Dissection's an even poorer copy of Iron Maiden.

Yazz_Flute
April 27th 2009


19174 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Storm of the Lights Bane worked extremely well as a full album, I can see how Somberlain and Reinkaos were more just songs (which they were) but I'm pretty biased towards SOTLB, being the first "black metal" album I ever listened to over 2-3 years ago.

SCREAM!
April 27th 2009


15755 Comments


I just finished listening to The Sombelain and i found it worked very well as an album. The songs flow together very well and the acoustic songs seem to seperate the album into different parts which also helps.
Last time i listened to this however, i got bored a little past the halfway point

Hyperbore
April 28th 2009


856 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Then you didn't really listen to it. Not closely. There's more to an album "working very well" than how well its songs flow, since the perception of "flow" changes from one person to another. If you investigate the actual composition of this album, however, you'll notice a few distinct features; the restatement of a certain melodic motif in every song, the introduction of a narrative structure in a song only to repeat it with a changed final movement, and the continuous increase in sonic layers. Dissection, whether one likes or dislikes them, makes comparatively simple music.

Motiv3
May 2nd 2009


9116 Comments


This is on par with the Somberlain, immense album so far (about half way through)

Hawks
May 25th 2009


88483 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Album still slays. I want to bump it up to a 4.5, but I don't think I can.

ThusSpokeZarathustra
May 25th 2009


293 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

A criminally underrated album. I might even go as far as to say it’s a notch above The Somberlain and Storm of the Light’s Bane (both of which I believe I’ve rated as 4’s) but it’s still pretty damn close.

‘In the Nightside Eclipse’ has my vote for the best bm album cover ever but this one's pretty freakin great as well.





Hawks
May 25th 2009


88483 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

No this isn't better than Storm of the Light's Bane or The Somberlain. Those albums are both pretty much black metal classics. This is still great if you want some Dissection influenced melodic black metal though.

Hyperbore
May 25th 2009


856 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yes it is better, and Hawks is a retard.

SCREAM!
May 25th 2009


15755 Comments


Hawks is dead on about this here

Athom
Emeritus
May 25th 2009


17244 Comments


SotLB and this are both 4's to me. I just happen to listen to this more.

Hawks
May 26th 2009


88483 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hawks is dead on about this here


Thanks Scream.

Hyperbore
May 26th 2009


856 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I didn't realize you had hearing problems, scream. That must suck for someone who frequents a music ratings site.

Hawks
May 26th 2009


88483 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

You act like we're saying that this album sucks. That's not the case. This band just isn't better than Dissection.

Hyperbore
May 26th 2009


856 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

No, I'm acting like your taste in music sucks, which it does, since you keep saying Dissection's brand of musically simple rock-heavy Iron Maiden knob-slobbering is better than this.

Hawks
May 26th 2009


88483 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hahahahaha ok troll.



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