Album Rating: 4.5
I wonder why they stopped using keys honestly. It fit their sound so well and they really just kinda cut them after estrangement. I think there's some on microcosmos but it's used very sparingly and the last few albums it's been completely gone if I recall correctly
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Album Rating: 4.5
Need more warmoon lord style keys in BM for sure
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Album Rating: 4.0
Don’t remember being very excited by the singles but this is really good, definitely their best in a long while even considering their resurgence in quality in the last few years.
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>album consists of four ~10 minute long songs
>there were singles
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Album Rating: 3.5
plural?
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Album Rating: 4.5
Straight up they released November and the nocturnal one prior to the album release lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
Right, didn't think I was crazy talking there lol. Pulled a blackbraid and dropped half the album early.
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to be honest, coming from someone who has only dabbled in Drudkh and who certainly is not an authority when it comes to taste in black metal, I found this to be relatively highly enjoyable on first listen... though it does seem fairly accessible by black metal standards... I can hear an elitist somewhere calling this pussy shit or uh not "kvlt" enough, as they say
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Album Rating: 4.0
The kvlt attitude is wildly inconsistent, they'll declare some of the most melodic folksy stuff kvlt but if it has post rock elements then it's false or whatever, there's no tracking what those clowns think.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think there’s a shift towards accessibility across quite few bm bands these days. The kvlt/strictly underground aspect is possibly less attractive to bm musicians now because black metal is pretty well known overall, social media makes everything pretty public. And black metal bands want to tour and keep writing music just as much as other genres. So small concessions in terms of accessibility probably have pretty huge payoffs in terms of financial support and the ability to keep making music. your average Spotify punter isn’t going to stick around for hyper inaccessible stuff. If there’s no reduction in quality I think accessibility is fine, but if the music becomes boring then that’s a shame
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah I don't think the true kvlt black metal elitism is really much of a thing any more
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Album Rating: 4.0
The one thing I love to see more than anything else in black metal is beautifully produced albums where the musicianship can actually shine. I remember saying Nattens Madrigal would bn amazing album if it didn't sound like shit and getting absolutely lambasted for it. I stand by that though.
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Album Rating: 4.5
But when it did exist it was super misguided since a lot of those guys were 2nd wave purists and all the 2nd wave bands they worshipped are made up of dudes that are actually fans of bands like kiss and motorhead lol
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Album Rating: 4.5
@WatchIt I agree although raw production can also be so fkn good when it’s done right and it forces you to listen hard and can be more immersive. I think individual musicianship is becoming more praised in bm, where traditionally the main focus is a cohesive overall energy/atmosphere
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Album Rating: 4.0
There's plenty of examples ofBlack metal albums that benefit from raw production. That one in particular just seems to suffer from it, imo of course
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think that nattens would be perfect with its lo fi production but just slightly less treble overall. Particularly on the guitars of course. Everything sounds pretty decent for bm of that time outside of that and even the bass is clearly audible. I like the bite of the guitar but it could have a slightly more balanced tone
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Have you jammed the Nattens remaster
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Album Rating: 4.0
Whaaa?
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Yea check out their compilation Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997. It has all their black metal stuff including demos, all remastered
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Album Rating: 4.5
Real talk I didn’t know that existed
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