I actually really enjoyed some of these songs. The Sixth Day, Pix Lax Dax, Like Father like Son, and Pretty World, Pretty Dies are my favorites.

Album Rating: 2.7

Aye, there’s nothing bad here, it’s just that the sound comes from very trodden ground. I also wish they just expanded on the themes a bit more here too. The themes in the heretics were slightly better implemented.

Album Rating: 4.0

IIIIIIII.......STAND ALONE!!!

gud to see incorrigible bigotry got a remaster

"It’s alarming how similar some of these tracks sound when compared to the material on Rituals and The Heretics." -- Yeah, those tracks definitely sound like they're built on the same materials.

You can tell when an old band starts struggling for new ideas. I love the new Priest album, but there's a few tracks that are very reminiscent of previous material. Sometimes that gets in the way for me, other times, like with Priest, I'm even glad for it. It seems to be a coin flip how it hits me the first time I hear the track. If it hits me wrong, then it's really hard to shake that bad first impression. For Attic, I couldn't shake the vocalists' "I-wanna-be-King-Diamond" style on their earlier albums, but I got past it on the new one somehow. No reason why, not one that I can verbalize anyway -- it just seems to be a subconscious part of my mind making its own decisions.

As much as I love them, I think their creative spark pretty much stopped at Kata Ton Demona Eaftou. Probably the anger of Sakis diluted over the years

Listening to this now and it's not as bad as I expected so far tbh. There's just a spark missing somewhere and it's hard to put into words

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper

Album Rating: 4.0

Slayz.

Album Rating: 3.0

"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper"



Thine Is The Kingdom is an underrated RC tune

The closer is such a jam. Despite being completely by the book I dig it

Album Rating: 4.0

Lets go!!!

Album Rating: 3.5

“ but the problems stem from every release proceeding Kata Ton Demona Eaftou where the band dilutes their sound in the service of the concepts.”



Something grammatically incorrect about the use of “proceeding” there btw, just caught on a re-read.



I’m listening to this in full now and I really, really want to like it more than I actually do. There’s something genuinely cool about this style, but they’re not exactly nailing it here. It’s just not grandiose enough to be the epic narrative it’s clearly trying to be. The tracks are simply not busy or exciting, they can’t carry the weight such a deliberate and methodical approach needs to get off the ground, it does feel far too thin and exposed. I prefer this error compared to being excessive and choking the life out of a track with multiple layers of choirs and symphonies, but they could have padded this out a bit more.

Album Rating: 3.5

Not going to jump on a judgement immediately though, and I’m prepared to eat some of my words if this grows on me in the interim, but it definitely feels like it’s missing something.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Hey Notrap!

Album Rating: 3.0

"There's just a spark missing somewhere and it's hard to put into words"



"but it definitely feels like it’s missing something"



the sauce! its missing the sauce!!

Album Rating: 2.7

Fixed scuro.



And yeah, the thing missing is tangible. I still enjoy listening to this, I’ve been jamming it quite a lot since I got it, because it’s easy listening, but there was a lot of potential with this one which makes it pretty disappointing.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

One of the best albums this year. Some of these songs get to epic like The Farewell. Completely nailed this

Album Rating: 4.0

Frigg yeah. M///

I want to like it, but you could slap any of these songs on Rituals and it would just sound the same.