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Atavist - III: Absolution



7.1 | 25 votes |
Release date: 19 June 2020
Style: Doom metal, Sludge metal

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01. Loss
02. Struggle
03. Self-Realisation
04. Absolution

Staff review by
RaduP
Rating:
8.5
The more I listen to this, the more I think it should be mandatory for any slow doom album to have a violin.

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published 23.06.2020 | Comments (6)

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14.12.2020 - 03:22
Rating: 7
Troy Killjoy
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"Loss" and "Absolution" make great bookends but the tonal shift into a distractingly faster paced and darker, grittier sound in between ruins the immersive experience they worked so hard to establish with a tidal atmosphere of sauntering riffs and depressive melodies. There's an underlying fuzzy guitar effect that muddles the overall compositions slightly but it actually works as a nice contrast to the softer shades of doom on display. I'd appreciate this a lot more on a personal level had it not felt so musically inconsistent as a whole.
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