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Comment by PowerWyrm 4 years ago
Therion - Beloved Antichrist 2018
Very ambitious project to make a 3-hour rock opera. Definitely too long...
Comment by PowerWyrm 6 years ago
Alcest - Kodama 2016
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.
Comment by PowerWyrm 7 years ago
Saviour Machine - Legend Part III:II 2011
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.
Comment by PowerWyrm 8 years ago
Opeth - Pale Communion 2014
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.
Comment by PowerWyrm 8 years ago
My Dying Bride - The Vaulted Shadows 2014, Compilation
A compilation of the two EPs "The Barghest O'Whitby" and "The Manuscript". Classic depressive doom(death).
Comment by PowerWyrm 8 years ago
Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere 2014
A mix of the heavier stuff (Marrow) and the old stuff (Mantle, White), with a lot of acoustic/instrumental interludes. A good surprise.
Comment by PowerWyrm 9 years ago
Manowar - Kings of Metal MMXIV 2014
A re-recording of the 1988 classic. Unfortunately, light years away from the original...
Comment by PowerWyrm 9 years ago
Agalloch - Pale Folklore 1999
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...
Peste Noire - L'Ordure à l'état Pur 2011
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.
Annihilator - Feast 2013
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. Comment by PowerWyrm 9 years ago
Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X 2013
The sadest music I've listened in ages... Mimimalistic electronica backed up with a classical orchestra. Almost a requiem. Comment by PowerWyrm 9 years ago
Orphaned Land - All Is One 2013
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...
Comment by PowerWyrm 9 years ago
Black Sabbath - 13 2013
Monstruously produced and doomy as ever! However, this clearly sounds like a swansong...
Comment by PowerWyrm 10 years ago
Amorphis - Circle 2013
A step back from the previous albums. Less folkish, more metal-oriented. But still very enjoyable...
Comment by PowerWyrm 10 years ago
Mono - For My Parents 2012
For all the parents in the world: we love you. And what better way to say it than with this gorgeous melancholic album. Comment by PowerWyrm 10 years ago
Kong - Merchants Of Air 2012
Good rocking instrumental progressive metal. A bit repetitive for me... but still a solid album.
Comment by PowerWyrm 10 years ago
My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures 2012
In the vein of their last albums. Not bad, but after Evinta or even The Barghest O'Whitby, the songs lack originality...
Cradle of Filth - Midnight In The Labyrinth 2012, Compilation
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. |
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