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This is really how modern doom metal should be played. Interesting riffs, great arrangements, sorrowful/spacey vocals, and a thick as fuck sound. It sounds modern, but in only the good ways. I can hear everything that's going on, but the tone is analog and warm. Amazing hooks. I saw these cats live the other day and they blew me away. Buy this.
This album is fucking awesome.
If it's even half as good as the demo thing, then I'll love it.
You won't be disappointed. It's great!
I can't get into the vocals. I hope they start growing on me. I feel the same way about some of the newer YOB vocals as well as parts of Asunder's (RIP) vocals. :-\
Everything else is solid though. Get arrangements, riffs, and atmosphere. Nothing is over-the-top or overdone.
If you don't immediately love that dude's voice you got issues.
YOB's vocals fucking kill, and Asunder, by all accounts WAS the best doom band to ever touch this planet... until this album came out.
Just sayin'.
Quote from: SunnO))) on March 18, 2012, 02:40:42 AM
If you don't immediately love that dude's voice you got issues.
YOB's vocals fucking kill, and Asunder, by all accounts WAS the best doom band to ever touch this planet... until this album came out.
Just sayin'.
Yeah, i love Mike' vocals when they're all shrill and high pitched. The singer in Pallbearer has a great voice also, it totally sits with the music.
I wouldn't say its the tone of these bands vocals, because I generally dig that. There are times when vocals get dragged out with the slow tempos that just doesn't sound organic to me.
This album is fucking amazing to me. It's like all of the best elements of trad doom, peaceville death/doom, and psych prog thrown into one. I feel guilty for liking new releases more than all of the classics, but this is really better than all of the classics.
Quote from: zackled on March 19, 2012, 04:11:03 AM
This album is fucking amazing to me. It's like all of the best elements of trad doom, peaceville death/doom, and psych prog thrown into one. I feel guilty for liking new releases more than all of the classics, but this is really better than all of the classics.
It's got everything. It's the shit. I listen to it at least once a day.
I'm liking this a lot. The middle song is a bit meandering but the others are top class. One of the riffs on "An Offering of Grief" is just one of the best I've heard in absolutely ages. Goes to show what a good vocalist, some harmonies and some well thought-out hooks can do for a band. Definitely elevates them above the ordinary and into "could go far" territory. They are genuinely heavy too, like it's a natural sound and not forced like I hear with some bands. I love it when records kinda come out of nowhere like this. Very very impressed.
The more I listen the better it gets, truly great. They deserve every bit of attention they're getting imo.
This band is awesome, hopefully I get to see them in May!!!!!!!!
So, I learned never to listen to reviews by "The Needle Drop" on youtube. I need to know if dude has ever been in a band in his life, he said they basically blow their load in the first two songs, and the rest were just filler. Fuck that clown. If you post here, homie, nothing against you, but you're wrong. Just sayin'.
Yeah, that's just his opinion though. He writes that on every review. I love this album and I also <3 TND.
Quote from: zackled on April 23, 2012, 12:20:34 AM
Yeah, that's just his opinion though. He writes that on every review. I love this album and I also <3 TND.
He's got a dumb opinion, and he's a fucking tool.
herp derp just like metals
Finally picked up a copy of this. Blasting it on headphones as the sun fails to rise through a thunderstorm. Soooo fucking good.
So I hadn't listened to this record in a month, revisited it and it still retains as much of the impact it had on me when I first listened to it. Truly the best album to come out in 2012 so far.
Totally different cds but I am so glad I added the new Gaza and Pallbearer cds to my collection this week!! 8)
Love this album and so pissed i am missing them tonight because of a work trip! But this album rules!
Normally I'm not the biggest fan of the slower stuff but I can appreciate this album. I'm also not the biggest fan of the vocals either but they certainly aren't terrible or made me turn them off. Pretty solid stuff in my opinion.
I have this, but I have not really invested as much time in it as I should. Mostly put it on as back ground music. I like what I have noticed so far though.
Quote from: Mr. Blue on March 14, 2013, 11:31:40 AM
I have this, but I have not really invested as much time in it as I should. Mostly put it on as back ground music. I like what I have noticed so far though.
you need to go ahead and invest time into it. One of the 3 best records from last year
I also love this record, it does seem to get better with each listen too, I honestly thought they were British the first time I heard it it sounds so bleak, yep, love love love it! Im so psyched about seeing them in June...
I've been digging this alot since I got my grubby hands on a copy, and man, this has staying power. I saw them last May at vitus bar, and the riffs sounded so powerful, positive, sorrowful, borderline angelic...that I had to walk out on Loss after two songs because it sounded too negative to my ears after what Pallbearer laid down. the harmonies live are absolutely gorgeous, and yeah, upon first listen I was like Arkansas? There's an Arkansas in Britain?
I remember playing with them and they were definitely heavy. I can't get into the album though, it really does nothing for me. Honestly I find it really, really boring and difficult to connect with emotionally.
Wow Andy, I hear you, but this album is special. It's as beautiful as As Heaven Turns To ash, but with soaring harmonies added and Warning-esque vocals (?)...for me it's nearly all about the emotion, the tones, the riffs, the harmonies and melodies just accentuate this entire feeling of....I don't know..this uplifting yet sorrowful feeling washes over me the entire hour. I can't explain it. I hadn't had that feeling in a long time before I picked my copy of this one up, the first listen was something I wish I could recreate, but of course every album that hits this hard the first time says what they have to say once, each listen afterwards is just to bask in the sweet memories. It's so traditional yet the modern production made even the heaviest, muddiest riffs cut you to the bone with their clarity. I fucking LOVE the atmosphere on this thing.
Bah, to each his own :)