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| 4.0 excellent | MasBarHigeuoris21 | February 18th 12 |
This is easily one of the heaviest, most crushing, most brutal post-metal albums ever. Kind of hard to really describe the sound without sounding too fanboyish, but after listening to this album, anyone can see why brutal and crushing are tossed around. This is right up there with Neurosis Through Silver in Blood, Cult of Luna The Beyond, and Isis Oceanic as far as post metal heaviness goes. This album may not have the diversity or complexity of PreCambrian but it makes up for it with its sheer aggression and its unrelenting heaviness. Other post metal bands have explored there heavy sides but few have come up with anything nearly as heavy as this record. Not every song on here is really good but the quality of The City in the Sea, Austerity, Killing the Flies, Queen of the Food-Chain, and Inertia more than make up for the shortfalls. This is definitely not for the faint of heart. Only those looking to be knocked on there ass by brutal music should listen.
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| 3.0 good | resident sputbirb with fancy hat | November 9th 18 |
After jamming this album again today I have come to the conclusion that this is probably The Ocean's worst studio album. Most of it is fairly average metallic hardcore fair and the album doesnt have a good sense of flow. However it does have two outstanding tracks which would be the crushing opener "City in the Sea" and the more adventurous "Queen of the Food-Chain". Its not a bad album by any means but a low point for the bands standards.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jared Floryan | May 8th 15 |
Aeolus is best known as the Greek god of the winds, and there existed a nation of people named after this legendary figure. Aeolian honestly couldn't be a more appropriate title for this record, seeing how the punishing, yet competent brutality of the album might be a kind of personification for gales entering our ears. Post-metal project The Ocean (or The Ocean Collective) fuse hardcore, sludge, and death metal elements together with not much trouble in the way, and the release's overall sound somehow makes it both unapproachable and accessible. I myself really enjoyed what I've heard from Aeolian, which means that I'm pretty damn tempted to check out the others even if they don't bear stylistic resemblances to this one.
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