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| 4.0 excellent | BallsToTheWall | September 20th 19 |
There are records with and without zazz. Hallucinogen is a zazzy, star studded affair from beginning to finish. Blut Aus Nord took the zazz train to zazzville for this record. #Zazz
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| 4.5 superb | Chino smoking it up! | September 26th 19 |
I think the cover is awesome, however it can be misleading (with the title of the album) when you jump expecting for a psychedelic exp. Haallucinahliaand and Cosma Procyiris though are indeed a cool tone change towards this idea. The album. Its not indeed an immense trip through psychedelia but a very gazey and beautiful BM album, with some true metal riffs to keep you engaged m/
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| 4.0 excellent | tenderscum | September 22nd 19 |
Feels like I'm riding neurons to space. Makes no sense, but it's how I feel.
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| 4.6 superb | Gary STAFF | November 15th 23 |
Inaccurate title aside (this is not psychedelic at all), this album is brilliant! This sticks out the Blut Aus Nord discography, since there were no hints in the past about stepping onto the path of cosmic black metal -- but who cares, if the result is this amazing! "Nomos Nebuleam" was definitely the pinnacle on this album (10/10 song), so that should have been the closer track, in my opinion.
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| 4.5 superb | rage11111ro | September 1st 21 |
A truly beautiful atmospheric black metal piece of art. Everything is set up in a way that is entrancing and soothing at the same time.
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| 4.0 excellent | Inoculaeted | October 29th 20 |
I'm not even hugely into black metal but I think this rules. There's genuinely beautiful riff
composition happening here. It's drenched in gaze-y spacey distortion, but it's there. The
vocals are mostly humming mysteriously behind the guitars, giving it that stoner vibe rather than
the classic abrasive BM shriek. Brilliantly executed. Will revisit often.
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| 3.0 good | cjbizzlebizzle | December 27th 19 |
Atmospheric black metal with some prog elements in the instrumentation with a strong guitar performance but vocals that fail to keep things all that interesting. The mix and chanting/ambient/background vocal flavor makes the album very much more of a black metal guitar album more than anything. There are a lot of guitar leads and riffs that stay within the black metal realms but push the boundaries making this record worth checking out. Beyond those guitars, there is just not that much to take in unfortunately.
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| 4.0 excellent | ManiacBlasphemer | October 19th 19 |
A hard album to asses and to rate. I had to give it half a dozen spins to sink in. My first impression of it was that this is definitely not the usual dissonant traditional black metal this band played on the previous 2 records and that in style, it tends to be more similar with the material they released on the 777 trilogy. The other impression is that, although the style resembles that of the trilogy, the songs are much softer and accessible. The vocals are scarce and usually buried in the mixed. Only the impeccable choirs get a more prominent role. Instrumentals dominate. Unlike the 777 trilogy, there are no tracks that standout here. The album flows seamlessly, shifting from more catchy melodies to dull moments. The strongest tracks are 1, 3, 4 and 5, but the rest also have their moments. This is not a masterpiece, but a solid album with no filler songs, only filler sections in all songs.
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| 4.1 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | October 2nd 19 |
This one tops Cosmosophy as their best 2010s release. It's atmospheric, very melodic (those riffs are spicey). What makes this album different are also the vocals: they are extremely low on the mix - which makes them sound like chant instead of screams (when they are not straight-up chants) -, making the whole album one of their most esoteric.
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| 4.5 superb | Kveldev | September 23rd 19 |
Triumphant comeback after the rather
disappointing Deus Salutis Mae
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| 3.5 great | Xenophanes EMERITUS | September 23rd 19 |
MV3 is my favorite black metal album of all time (I know, right?) so hearing a bit of a return of it is, er, music to my
ears. Too bad the album art and name are so on the nose.
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| 4.5 superb | Laen | September 23rd 19 |
it's essentially MV4 so I couldn't be happier
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| 4.5 superb | br4dl3yb34r | September 21st 19 |
Not as psychedelic as I expected with that title and album art, but it sounds like stuff in the Memoria Vetusta trilogy, so thats cool.
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| 4.0 excellent | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Dizchu | October 28th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Hawks | August 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | January 4th 23 |
| 3.5 great | bahlof | December 14th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Smerte | November 19th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Kos | October 24th 22 |
| 3.5 great | DNiewen | September 18th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | August 10th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | JoneHK | May 22nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | MonkMan | February 9th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | vakuola | January 5th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | qt | December 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | December 6th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Lvxfra | October 22nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | qiblas | May 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Surtur | April 25th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Doono | March 9th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Harlz | February 28th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Roogan | February 18th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | yayafa | February 1st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | dragoth | January 27th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Oobaloo | December 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | kabster | November 1st 20 |
| 3.5 great | remi | October 12th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Avar616 | September 24th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Pho3nix | September 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lykurg | September 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Devin666 | September 3rd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aranox | August 25th 20 |
| 3.5 great | ariich | July 20th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | qzaj66 | June 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | kx8 | May 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | 2ool | March 6th 20 |
| 3.5 great | alpsi | March 1st 20 |
| 4.5 superb | bSmith | January 30th 20 |
| 3.5 great | CK1991 | January 30th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | motyli | January 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | TanMan | January 16th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Moge | January 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | ckssr1 | January 1st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fenix | December 30th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Veldin | December 29th 19 |
| 3.5 great | tyler | December 29th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dimosths | December 27th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Lelle | December 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | DANcore | December 15th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | aGit | December 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | alamo | November 27th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | neikos | November 25th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Steev | November 22nd 19 |
| 3.5 great | hadriel | November 20th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Inveigh | November 20th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | GhostK | October 31st 19 |
| 3.5 great | Coast | October 29th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | kspsml | October 29th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | LMadden | October 24th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | ralpo | October 24th 19 |
| 2.5 average | bbm | October 15th 19 |
| 3.5 great | unkle | October 15th 19 |
| 3.4 great | Trey STAFF | October 14th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greem | October 12th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sunnyvale STAFF | October 11th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Phate72 | October 8th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | catzlol | October 3rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | October 3rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | em17ah | October 3rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | October 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | gk1979 | October 2nd 19 |
| 3.5 great | Kruppe | October 1st 19 |
| 3.5 great | emmny | September 29th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Kyle Ward EMERITUS | September 29th 19 |
| 3.5 great | gagarin | September 29th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Eons | September 28th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | P0laris | September 27th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Mila91 | September 27th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | EKN | September 27th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Atari STAFF | September 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Scheumke | September 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | StarsDie | September 25th 19 |
| 3.5 great | AntalWS | September 23rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | hsb | September 23rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | 8genre | September 22nd 19 |
| 2.5 average | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | September 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Elynna | September 21st 19 |
| 3.0 good | Dmax28 | September 21st 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Gmork89 | September 20th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | September 20th 19 |
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