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Gorgeous album. My favorite of the last 20 years.

Very ambitious project to make a 3-hour rock opera. Definitely too long...

Back to the style of the first two albums. 2017's masterpiece.

One step forward... and now two steps back. After delivering some very atmospheric post rock on the last album, the band went back to the mix of post black metal/shoegaze of Ecailles de Lune. Still a very strong album, but not my favorite.

Too bad this (sort of demo) album was never released properly. From what I see from this rough mix, it was indeed their best album.

My least favorite album since Deliverance. Seems that the growls are gone, but the songs have become more cheesy. Had to wait for the final track to find the Opeth I really like.

A compilation of the two EPs "The Barghest O'Whitby" and "The Manuscript". Classic depressive doom(death).

A mix of the heavier stuff (Marrow) and the old stuff (Mantle, White), with a lot of acoustic/instrumental interludes. A good surprise.

A re-recording of the 1988 classic. Unfortunately, light years away from the original...

I've completely overlooked this album when I discovered the band, probably because I started with Dead Winter Days and hated the harsh vocals. But the rest of this album is marvelous, and I'm glad I fixed the mistake...

Medieval black metal band Peste Noire delivers here a very controversial album. The dark lyrics based on medieval poems have been replaced here by political pamphlets around very modern subjects: ecology, social fracture, civil war... The music, quite far from their black metal roots, is an eclectic mix of punk/rock, ska, french folk, eurodance and avant-garde metal. Vocals alternate between male and female, clean, spoken, growls, carnivalesque... It's a mess, but a good mess. Most funny album I've listened in ages.

Nice gory cover art... so did Annihilator move to death metal? Not really... In fact, it's probably their most balanced album since All For You.

Okay there are still a lot of fast paced thrash metal songs, but that's the trademark of Annihilator since the first day. However, this time, the band added more melodic songs ("No Surrender", "One Falls, Two Rise"), a ballad ("Perfect Angel Eyes"), even the guitar interludes are back. In the end, an enjoyable album.

The sadest music I've listened in ages... Mimimalistic electronica backed up with a classical orchestra. Almost a requiem.

This is their most melodic album to date. Shorter songs, less metallic, with the middle-eastern parts put in front. One of the best albums of the year...

Monstruously produced and doomy as ever! However, this clearly sounds like a swansong...

A step back from the previous albums. Less folkish, more metal-oriented. But still very enjoyable...

For all the parents in the world: we love you. And what better way to say it than with this gorgeous melancholic album.

Good rocking instrumental progressive metal. A bit repetitive for me... but still a solid album.

In the vein of their last albums. Not bad, but after Evinta or even The Barghest O'Whitby, the songs lack originality...

If like me you're someone that loves Cradle of Filth's music but hates the unbearable vocals they use... then this album is for you. A collection of re-recorded songs from their first albums in orchestral versions with only female vocals and male narration. No blastbeats. And no shrieks!

I just regret a few things: no "Bathory Aria" (maybe it was too long or already orchestrated enough in the original version), a pointless second disc (instrumental versions of tracks from the first disc that were already 80% instrumental), and only one new song (Goetia - clearly the worst of everything on the disc).

For sure, after listening to this record and checking the original versions, unless you're a hardcore black metal fan, you will find them quite horrible.