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Imo this is the best album of the year , and it is WAY better than In A Flesh Aquarium . I love to listen to this from start to finish , a great experience .
thanks for the review  ( but my score would be 9.5ish  , this is perfection )
best thing on the album : killer female vocals , she just nails it in every freaking song ! |
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| Fantastic review. Extremely accurate. I love this band. I love In a Flesh Aquarium and I do love this more, I was worried they wouldn't be able to outdue Flesh Aquarium and oh boy was I wrong, def the best avant garde/progressive album of the year imo. \m/ |
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| Yeppe deffinetly a bands that defines Avant-Guarde. I'm so proud of them. I remember when I saw'em live in lots of churches basements. Now they have worldwide recognition and will take part in Hellfest. Good things does happen to great bands |
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| One of the best albums from 2011 IMO. It takes MANY listens to disentangle the mess, but it is totally worth it. I have liked it more and more each time through. |
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| In a Flesh Aquarium was good but this one sounds to me like total gibberish. I find In a Flesh Aquarium more concise, it is crazy but the crazy parts flow one after another, not everything is played at the same time like on this one. Still, I will try it at least once more just to be sure. |
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| Not a single mention of the bass? im dissapointed. |
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Written by Black_Handed on 13.11.2011 at 00:37
Not a single mention of the bass? im dissapointed.
well the mambo/salsa/jazz part might refer to it, but you're right The bassist deserves a paragraph of his own |
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This might be my album of the year.
I love how they have progressed since their last album. They had this chaotic musical concept correctly described on the review but they couldn't master it until now IMO.
And I like that the album is conceptual, very delirious lyrics all over.
Nice review but you could have covered some other aspects, like the bass as mentioned above or that you forgot there are also clean male vocals occasionally besides the growls. |
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| BTW, I'm in love with leilindel (L) |
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Written by Assassiyoun on 12.11.2011 at 22:06
In a Flesh Aquarium was good but this one sounds to me like total gibberish. I find In a Flesh Aquarium more concise, it is crazy but the crazy parts flow one after another, not everything is played at the same time like on this one. Still, I will try it at least once more just to be sure.
this is going to take more than one more listen my friend. I loved Flesh Aquarium. I would even say it was my favorite album at one point but this album took me a whole month of listening to really get what was going on. I finally broke down and just listened to one song a day and nothing else. I assure you this is the most demanding listen I've ever had but the payoff is more than worth it. Many of the different parts tend to be connected by an instrument or two and once you get the hang of the various structures you you realize that everything actually does fit together (even if it is intentionally meant to add some kind of disorientating atmosphere)
As for the review I agree with the comment on the first song. I remember listening to that song and realizing that only 3 minutes had gone bye with what felt like the equivalent of 10-minutes of musical ideas typically found in most music. I'm really impressed though with how surprisingly cohesive and cognitivly the songs are structured. |
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Written by Paradox0 on 13.11.2011 at 18:25
this is going to take more than one more listen my friend. I loved Flesh Aquarium. I would even say it was my favorite album at one point but this album took me a whole month of listening to really get what was going on. I finally broke down and just listened to one song a day and nothing else.
One song a day? I will try that. |
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| Man this is really good review, I couldn't find the words to describe this album myself. I think this sums it up nicely: "the organized chaos seems to become a shape shifter along the number of listens, creating an elaborate labyrinth of unmatched sonic landscapes." |
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Nice review but it pretty much rounds up what can be said about the last two albums. I would have liked to read what makes this album different from IAFA... More modern and proggy, right? That's all?
I personnally LOVE In A Flesh Aquarium, definitely one of the best metal albums ever and probably the most original of all times. But this one somehow failed to catch me, except for two or three tracks. I had hoped this review would have helped me understand why... |
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Written by MétalNoir on 14.11.2011 at 16:33
I would have liked to read what makes this album different from IAFA... More modern and proggy, right? That's all?
Also less gothic driven and more industrial/pop/electronic influences. Those 4 things together with the general knowledge of what this band sounds like it's enough info imo |
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Written by Mr. Doctor on 14.11.2011 at 16:51
Written by MétalNoir on 14.11.2011 at 16:33
I would have liked to read what makes this album different from IAFA... More modern and proggy, right? That's all?
Also less gothic driven and more industrial/pop/electronic influences. Those 4 things together with the general knowledge of what this band sounds like it's enough info imo
Maybe also less brutal and chaotic? |
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Written by MétalNoir on 15.11.2011 at 05:36
Maybe also less brutal and chaotic?
definitely not - the whole album sounds more mature and sometimes even more chaotic than their previous releases, but the production is sooo much better, which makes it sound much more brutal than their previous efforts... but also more accessible...
and leilindel's voice has improved sooo much, oh boy does she sound good on this album - e.g. orange vigilantes (starting approx. 2:00) or the intro to my all-time-favorite "unsolved ideas". |
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