"This stuff smears crap on the walls o..." more

"This stuff smears crap on the walls of the word "genre." I don't know what it is, exactly. The sounds are amazing, but does it have enough melody for me?" less

"10 tracks. The guy has a nice voice, ..." more

"10 tracks. The guy has a nice voice, with a darker timbre in his range. Looks like they hit the melodic metal side of things a bit more, with some hard-driving riffs and piano. Samples sound good; might be fair to place them in the Hammerfall camp." less

"Big riffs and multiple-part harmonies..." more

"Big riffs and multiple-part harmonies. Hard-rocking, and sounds very tuneful and positive (perhaps less my thing?). Almost a little AORish." less

"11 tracks. Vocal harmonies that are a..." more

"11 tracks. Vocal harmonies that are as weirdly intertwined as the cover would suggest. Samples make it hard to pick up on the progginess of it, though it comes across like King's X on a surly bender with Magic Pie." less

"12 tracks. 8/10 on DPRP. I can tell t..." more

"12 tracks. 8/10 on DPRP. I can tell that they have a keen sense of dynamics and don't mind letting a song build, but that makes it a bit hard to see how they pull it all together from the samples. From DPRP: Sure, the album is a bit scattered; sure, each song (the short ones excepted) meanders a bit, seldom finding a melodic centre. But this is a very fine, ambitious, interesting album � and one that�s fun to listen to. It�s not a genre exercise, and it�s not, or not merely, a showcase for all the ideas the band has come up with to this point in their existence: it�s an announcement of a creative band that will, I hope, in the next few years help to prove my prediction about at least one of the emerging directions of metal to be true.

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"8 tracks. Very throwback with Hammond..." more

"8 tracks. Very throwback with Hammond organ up your wazoo." less

"6 tracks. Indie-prog from members who..." more

"6 tracks. Indie-prog from members who would one day bring us Rachel's." less

"Also indie-prog witht he raw energy o..." more

"Also indie-prog witht he raw energy of At the Drive-In. About as crazy and tuneful in the same way. AMG says they combine King Crimson and Fugazi, and that seems fair enough." less

"A cool mix of sounds and genres in th..." more

"A cool mix of sounds and genres in this black-metal album. 10 tracks that may tap into the same successful mixture of styles as a good Tristania album." less

"Fits in with the black metalish side ..." more

"Fits in with the black metalish side of the Therion, Cthonic Chronicles, etc set" less

"13 songs. 8/10 on DPRP. Female fronte..." more

"13 songs. 8/10 on DPRP. Female fronted rocking-out" less

"6 tracks. Instrumental. Heavy and met..." more

"6 tracks. Instrumental. Heavy and metallic, but with violin." less

"11"

"11"