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| 4.0 excellent | Chino smoking it up! | October 12th 20 |
Disclaimer: This soundoff won't comment the cover. This album slaps. Definitely more formulaic
than experimental but it connects you to a thrill electric wire end to end. FUN RIFFS!!! BAD ASS
LEADS!!!INSANE VOCALS!!!
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| 1.5 very poor | GamamJ | October 2nd 20 |
Just as I expected, absolute trash. Listened to it for a friend, but good lord, wish I did not.This is basically the definition of trying to cover up non-existant songwriting with pure unadelturated intensity. It just makes it sound worse. Oof.
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| 3.4 great | Trey STAFF | January 13th 23 |
Pure unadulterated intensity sums this up pretty well. We'll have to agree to disagree on the ?why'. I'm not saying I don't understand that kind of reaction, though. Anaal Nathrakh have always been on the cusp of being unlistenable. They're just so damn noisy and unrelenting that a lot of times I just can't listen to them. It's only the times that they kind of throttle back that I can really get into them ? Endarkenment is one of those times. Keep in mind, ?throttle back' is a relative term here. This album is still an intense, over the top exercise in extreme metal that will almost certainly leave you exhausted, but there's also just enough random melody and occasional hooks that I actually really enjoy this.
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| 3.5 great | Malcontent | November 2nd 20 |
Extreme Power Metal. Endarkenment is best on tracks like Feeding the Death Machine, Punish Them, The Age of Starlight Ends, and the title track. It's an extreme, exhausting, *incredibly* over the top cacophony that somehow works around an actual melodic core. Comparatively, tracks like Thus, Always, To Tyrants are weaker: it sounds mad: extremity for its own sake, untethered to any guiding purpose or melody. When their sound is constrained by an actual melody, it sounds all the more powerful: equally parts catchy and demented, like a sadomasochistic take on Viking Metal: brutal, punishing, and somehow, fun. It's heavy, obviously, and spends the majority of its runtime absolutely pummeling the listener, but it doesn't simply destroy, it also inspires.
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| 4.5 superb | Masha2k | October 5th 20 |
This is it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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| 0.0 | Xenophanes EMERITUS | October 4th 20 |
“A Pig With Cocks in its Eyes”
Hey how did they know my high school nickname?
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| 3.5 great | heck | October 2nd 20 |
It's Anaal Nathrakh: Nothing more, nothing less. Their glory days are behind them and they've settled into their ways, but their ways are still enjoyable.
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| 3.5 great | Piglet | January 12th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hawks | November 15th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | JTFly17 | September 3rd 23 |
| 3.0 good | qt | August 29th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | February 8th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Derek | October 24th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 19th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | January 29th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | JoneHK | December 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | CygnusX1 | September 18th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kasper | July 8th 21 |
| 3.5 great | 8genre | June 17th 21 |
| 3.5 great | alsid | April 6th 21 |
| 3.5 great | yayafa | February 21st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | P0laris | February 5th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | coopj | January 9th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | silvr | December 30th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | December 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | dragoth | November 18th 20 |
| 3.5 great | em17ah | November 7th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Yoni91 | November 2nd 20 |
| 3.0 good | Elynna | October 26th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | madtwoo | October 12th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | chayka | October 7th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Aranox | October 7th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | hsb | October 7th 20 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | October 7th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Spag | October 7th 20 |
| 2.5 average | jesper STAFF | October 5th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | kx8 | October 3rd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dizchu | October 3rd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | October 2nd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | GhostK | October 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | mogmi | September 30th 20 |
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