lmao "6. Skyclad Passage (additional track only available on the limited gatefold 2xLP and LP, booklet and poster variants)"

why the hell isn't this the last track then? if it's integral to the flow of the album why is it limited edish

WITTR sold out

song is good though

and that Saidan release is FIRE

I dig how incredibly larpy the video is. Nice song. Looks like a good time to got into this band

i would recommend going to chronological order, but they start out strong, have a few meh albums and then have recently become pretty great again

Love this band to death, but yeah what's up with that vinyl only bonus track in the middle of the album. They aren't the first band to throw a bonus track in the middle of an album, but I have generally have found their releases to be front to back experiences, so it definitely seems out of place.

> Skyclad Passage (additional track only available on the limited gatefold 2xLP and LP, booklet and poster variants)

i was never going to buy this anyways, but this shit pisses me off so much. will never support any band that does this gimmick.

Eh, I can't get mad at them trying to make some money. Probably rough if black metal band is your main income

this will literally not entice 1 person that already wasn't going to buy the vinyl version to buy it, it will only increase ppl pirating the whole record to get the track

its the same as the bullshit "weve only pressed this to 300 LP's and wont even put up a bandcamp link" fake exclusivity shit. instead of making music people actually want to buy, they create artificial scarcity just to get people to panic purchase. in the age of digital music, this kind of physical media gimmick just entirely unnecessary and insulting.

especially when its ALWAYS about vinyl LP's, which are well known to have some of the lowest profit margins and are hugely detrimental to the environment.

youd think a bunch of kombucha drinking west coast hippie granola people would care more about something like that, but i guess gimmicking people into buying your shitty music is more important.

"it will only increase ppl pirating the whole record to get the track"

I was thinking about this too, but if they only ever release it on vinyl, then you'll be downloading a ripped vinyl mp3 vs. a "better" sounding digital release.

^ yep same thing when Motorpyscho published an entire studio album on vinyl only (Child of the Future). Fortunately my own rip turned out decent although not perfect because otherwise I'd be fucked if I wanted to jam it when I please (and the only rip floating online even sucks lol)

Pleasant surprise. More agressive than expected, but pretty cool stuff. Good to hear some variance on the vocal front too.

youd think a bunch of kombucha drinking west coast hippie granola people would care more about something like that, but i guess gimmicking people into buying your shitty music is more important. (2)

If it's black metal who cares about the "lower" quality, and aren't vinyl supposed to sound better anyway?

I'm still mad about Two Hunters having different tracks on vinyl tho.

"I'm still mad about Two Hunters having different tracks on vinyl tho."

they just slowed down the intro to cleansing and added a bonus track - no different otherwise. the CD version of cleansing is better anyways.

i can understand bonus tracks on an edition to incentivise people buying it but like, tracks in the middle of an album is just fucking absurd.

edit: actually i've looked at the tracklist and i think i know why they did this. the track lengths mean that side C is the only place it could have really fit on the record - two tracks a side. because "Masters of Rain and Storm" is nearly 11 minutes long. i'm assuming it's a 45 rpm record so that limits it to about 15 minutes a side - adding it to the end would have meant that it'd have one side at about 9 minutes and having "Underworld Aurora" and "Masters of Rain and Storm" on one side would have been over 18 minutes on one side. i don't think it's integral to the structure, i think it's simply because there was nowhere else on the LP it could go.

"youd think a bunch of kombucha drinking west coast hippie granola people would care more about something like that, but i guess gimmicking people into buying your shitty music is more important."

I could be wrong but I feel like wiitr are probably actually city people cosplaying as self sufficient farmer hippies

"they just slowed down the intro to cleansing and added a bonus track - no different otherwise. the CD version of cleansing is better anyways."

I like the longer version of Cleansing actually, it's not just slowed down but has a whole extra ambient part before the track would start on the CD version.

And To Reveal kicks ass

the ambient start *is* just the into slowed down pretty much. that's what i mean.

🦑

To Reveal whips, and it does make sense why they cut it from the CD since it doesn't really stylistically fit with the rest of the album but still it deserved a spot

This sounds alright

Catastrophically overrated band.

now yes a decade ago no

They were probably more overhyped a decade ago. Not that much hype around them now and they have a pretty solid discog imo

a decade ago they had three highly regarded albums D:

I like all their albums but yeah

"Catastrophically overrated band."

lol what is this descriptor, "catastrophically", like really? it's a catastrophe that this band is overrated? you care that much that people hype up bands you don't like as much as they do?

i used to care so much about this shit and it's so dumb.

lots of trolls to feed 'round these parts

So that additional track is just a neat dungeon synth track, probably not integral to the album but I dig it and it fits very nicely as track 6

I don't thiiink I hate this? I'm more into riff-oriented 'big guitar sound' bm but this at least has better sound orientation and structuring than the last one, I think.