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The Ruins Of Beverast - Unlock The Shrine



8.5 | 117 votes |
Release date: 3 August 2004
Style: Black metal

Owners:

105 have it
20 want it


01. Between Bronze Walls
02. Skeleton Coast
03. Euphoria When The Bombs Fell
04. God Sent No Sign
05. The Clockhand's Groaning Circles
06. Procession Of Pawns
07. Summer Decapitation Ritual
08. Cellartunes
09. Unlock The Shrine
10. Subterranean Homicide Lamentation
11. The Mine
12. White Abyss

Additional info
Released as a double LP in 2005, limited to 250 hand-numbered copies.
Also released as a special die-hard edition, limited to 250 hand-numbered copies comes with bonus 10" mini LP of The Furious Waves Of Damnation demo. Packed in special hand-made bag. CD re-release in 2006.

Staff review by
Lucas
Rating:
9.0
From the ashes of the mighty, yet criminally underrated Nagelfar, rose the new one-man-project The Ruins Of Beverast. Musical mastermind and sole member Alexander Von Meilenwald had decided that he had nothing more to say with Nagelfar, and frankly, it was a good decision. Not only had he already released the brilliant "Srontgorrth", a highlight that cannot be reached once more anyway, but he also felt that it was time for a change in a style. Out with the bombastic Avant-Garde Black Metal filled with trumpet-tongued angels and apocalyptic electronics, in with a far more basic, dark and despairing type of Black Metal.

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published 07.02.2008 | Comments (16)

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Comments: 10   Visited by: 482 users
16.06.2011 - 21:36
Rating: 9
InnerSelf
proofread free
Revisiting this .... can't get enough of it
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He who is not bold enough
to be stared at from across the abyss
is not bold enough
to stare into it himself.
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26.04.2012 - 15:16
3rdWorld
China was a neat
Fucking addicitive!!! What a sharp production style...!!!
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17.12.2012 - 02:54
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
36 votes. That is a travesty.
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18.12.2012 - 19:29
Rating: 9
InnerSelf
proofread free
Written by Guest on 17.12.2012 at 02:54

36 votes. That is a travesty.

And Atmospheric Black has allegedly become hipster music now, underrated as hell.
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He who is not bold enough
to be stared at from across the abyss
is not bold enough
to stare into it himself.
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27.05.2014 - 17:27
Rating: 9
moonflash

I have arrived too. Yet to listen to their other albums but this one is one of the darkest albums I've ever heard. Brilliant atmospheric stuff.
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16.06.2014 - 06:57
Lit.
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I HAVE ALSO ARRIVED. Lots of sweet riffs in here.
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03.07.2015 - 04:44
Rating: 8
Roxana.M

this album is a breath-taking and haunting masterpiece!!!! utterly catchy riffs...A great dark journey !! i know there are so many great BM bands but seriously Ruins Of Beverast is one of those rare bands that creates incomparable BM albums . Alexander Von Meilenwald is genius !

Great review ! [ i really liked what reviewer said about Dummy Burger! lol ]
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16.02.2020 - 15:31
Rating: 9
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
The Clockhand's Groaning Circles is a FUCKING BANGER
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I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

~ II. VII
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16.02.2020 - 15:34
LuciferOfGayness
Account deleted
Written by Auntie Sahar on 16.02.2020 at 15:31

The Clockhand's Groaning Circles is a FUCKING BANGER

...always Between Bronze Walls for me, still, until this day one of the best black metal songs ever.
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26.07.2023 - 20:06
Rating: 10
AV6

This is one of those albums I found through sample songs on myspace, Between Bronze Walls for example. Bought the album, thought I could never digest all of it, numerous replays later and there it clicked. There was never going to be published an album so influencial or special for me. Still holds up years later. Rest of the discography have their own place/time, this one just has that extra little something.
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