Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III
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thegreywind
November 8th 2015


38 Comments


Cool.. You're awesome

Asmodeuss1990
November 8th 2015


388 Comments


One of my favorite things in life are reading Crysis reviews.

Excellent review as always mang. I've enjoyed their earlier work for sure so its a shame this mammoth release didn't live up to the hype I had for it. Gonna jam this out and see how it is.

Crysis
Emeritus
November 8th 2015


17628 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Thanks man, glad you liked the review. The album is worth a shot, if only for the third LP.

ExhaleTheLight
November 8th 2015


1223 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I dug the all the songs the released from each LP, shame that the first two don't really hold up, but then again that's the risk of releasing a double/triple LP.

Flugmorph
November 9th 2015


34363 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

pretty exited about this

DungeonBoy
November 9th 2015


9737 Comments


Great review. I don't have high hopes but I'll still check out of curiosity.

Archelirion
November 9th 2015


6594 Comments


Really not 100% I'll check this, even though I kinda want to. Everything else they've done is at least a 3.5 in my opinion, but... 2 and a half hours is a lot. Think I'd have to do it LP by LP and do it that way... though I won't be able to treat it as a singular experience, sadly.
Mint review, as per always ^.^

Crysis
Emeritus
November 9th 2015


17628 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

However much they aimed for it, this is not a singular experience. I feel as if all three LP's are quite different and the only one that I think is the sound they were going for is the acoustic one.

ThyCrossAwaits
November 10th 2015


3993 Comments


Roads To the North, Songs From the North

see also: I Know What You Did In the North, While You Were In the North, It Happened One Night In the North

ThyCrossAwaits
November 10th 2015


3993 Comments


It's Hard Out Here For the North

The North Is Too Damn High

DarkNoctus
November 12th 2015


12210 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

listening to this now and these soulless clean vocals really are ruining this



the fact they're singing about such negativity and yet sound so sterile and soulless utterly destroys the effect of the album

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 12th 2015


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 3.8

Did this leak?

DarkNoctus
November 12th 2015


12210 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

it did indeed

DarkNoctus
November 12th 2015


12210 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

tbh, i'm not sure why they didn't just remove a couple of weaker tracks from album 1, take the best couple of tracks from album 2, merge them and make this a double album. then release the other tracks from album 2 as an ep or something later.



there just aren't enough differences in the songwriting between the first two records to really warrant them being apart. both of them strive for a very similar atmosphere, even if one goes down a far more serene route. but then, regarding album 2, it honestly feels like sometimes they just forgot to add the harsh vocals and electric guitar, like, some moments were begging for it. the first two albums make the third, which is the strongest one, seem kind of out of place like some weird anomaly where if the first two were together with only the strongest material from both it would have showed both sides of their composing style far more faithfully.

Crysis
Emeritus
November 12th 2015


17628 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

agreed on all counts, as i said earlier "This would be excellent if they combined the funeral doom record with a few songs from the first lp and then used acoustic interludes"



his cleans do have some emotion on some tracks i.e. "Heart of a Cold White Land" but 95% of the time it is lifeless. at least on new moon he had some semblance of emotion to make it engaging.

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 12th 2015


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 3.8

Jamming the first disc now, sounds pretty standard for them but great just as expected. Stoked to hear what discs 2 and 3 sound like.

OverSlyZed
November 12th 2015


164 Comments


The first album is pretty good. It has some alt metal vibes and very nice production.

DarkNoctus
November 12th 2015


12210 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

honestly i think the production is one of the worst parts of this, it's pretty overcompressed and kind of sterile

DarkNoctus
November 13th 2015


12210 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

depends what you mean by internet rip

Crysis
Emeritus
November 13th 2015


17628 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

our promo was 192kbps so it's not like i had something revolutionary



production sounds average to me, neither exceptional nor bad



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