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3.8 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | February 28th 20 | Nantais homies (oh yeah boiz eat tha galette) coming back again with their trademark atmoblack with sludgy tints. It's not as immediate as Exile or s/t, but the band still knows how to pull out nasty riffs. Back in 2013, they found their formula: an intro, a slapping first track, a whopping last one, and good riffs in the middle. Even though you could argue they're lacking originality by repeating this recipe, they know how make it work. However, I feel the album truly picks up with the fourth track, The Crowning, making this my least fave of them. Still top kwaliteit though, and a different beast than the first two; the most distinctive change is the singing: less "depressive" and much more raging, which on the one hand decreases the ominous atmosphere but brings a newfound violence. The album ends with these last four words: Regarde les hommes tomber, concluding the trilogy of one of the most exciting bands of the last decade. Plus did I tell you they're from Nantes?
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4.0 excellent | Robert Garland STAFF | December 26th 19 | This is as good as anything else they've released in their career. That's enough said honestly.
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3.5 great | Inoculaeted | November 1st 20 | Stellar Cross is a really sweet mid tempo changeup that circles around a dreamy repetitious riff.
The chanting type vocals add a creepy element that elevates the drama and the whole things boils
over to a violent crescendo. Probably my favorite track on this album. I find that these guys
have the ability to craft consistently interesting experimental stuff with their sludgy
Mastodonian diversions, but they go back to the meat and potatoes BM barrage more than I like.
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4.5 superb | Fernando Alves STAFF | March 30th 20 | Few times have an album title and artwork been so appropriate. The band truly ascended through fire. It will most certainly be among my favorite black metal albums of the year.
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4.0 excellent | Chino smoking it up! | March 11th 20 | OMFG if that ain't a way to end a metal album I don't know what is m/m/m/. Honestly think this is a big step up from their previous, which I dig a lot but still feel it is "one sided mood" and relies to much on atmo. Recd tracks - The Crowning; Au Bord du Gouffre.r
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4.0 excellent | Pherin | May 15th 22 |
4.0 excellent | Lvxfra | October 25th 21 |
3.5 great | MAB | August 18th 21 |
3.5 great | h0rsie | March 2nd 21 |
1.5 very poor | gschwen | December 28th 20 |
5.0 classic | Sorgh87 | December 24th 20 |
4.0 excellent | kx8 | December 23rd 20 |
4.0 excellent | cb123 | December 15th 20 |
5.0 classic | Niordor | December 7th 20 |
4.0 excellent | Yoni91 | August 16th 20 |
3.5 great | em17ah | July 22nd 20 |
4.0 excellent | Thibs | May 29th 20 |
4.0 excellent | slish | May 3rd 20 |
4.0 excellent | motyli | April 3rd 20 |
3.5 great | jmh886 | March 17th 20 |
4.0 excellent | Greem | March 15th 20 |
3.2 good | Trey STAFF | March 15th 20 |
3.5 great | Atari STAFF | March 11th 20 |
3.5 great | Elevon | March 2nd 20 |
4.0 excellent | rid | March 2nd 20 |
4.0 excellent | leon486 | February 29th 20 |
4.5 superb | zzf1918 | February 29th 20 |
4.0 excellent | hesperus | February 28th 20 |
4.0 excellent | bbm | February 26th 20 |
5.0 classic | fossaII | February 25th 20 |
3.5 great | JLR2DEG | February 23rd 20 |
3.5 great | Vasilis S. CONTRIBUTOR | February 19th 20 |
4.0 excellent | Wolfe | December 26th 19 |
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