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Oceans Of Slumber - Starlight And Ash



7.2 | 106 votes |
Release date: 22 July 2022
Style: Progressive metal

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39 have it
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01. The Waters Rising
02. Hearts Of Stone
03. The Lighthouse
04. Red Forest Roads
05. The Hanging Tree
06. Salvation
07. Star Altar
08. The Spring Of '21
09. Just A Day
10. House Of The Rising Sun [The Animals cover] [feat. Carla Kihlstedt & Philip Sheegog]
11. The Shipbuilder's Son

Additional info
Produced by Joel Hamilton.
Mastered by Maor Appelbaum.
Cover artwork created by Eliran Kantor.

Staff review by
musclassia
Rating:
7.2
With the album Oceans Of Slumber, the band Oceans Of Slumber followed the trajectory of their previous records into excess; with Starlight And Ash, they’ve changed direction entirely.

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published 27.07.2022 | Comments (4)

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Comments: 13   Visited by: 316 users
25.05.2022 - 16:20
TheBigRossowski
Super stoked for this one!
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That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
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23.06.2022 - 23:54
Jaro
Dammit, I need to finally check their back catalog out before this comes out.
I've only heard Winter, was deece.
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Album Release day (July 22, 2022)
22.07.2022 - 18:10
Rating: 7
musclassia
Staff
On first listen, definitely more taken with this one that the self-titled; they cut down a lot of the bloat. It's very much Cammie's vehicle now, but the rest of the band works well enough to work in harmony with her most of the time. The extreme elements are pretty much all gone now

Edit: Less impressed on subsequent listens - still good moments here, but a tad dull
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23.07.2022 - 04:35
Rating: 4
I thought this album was boring, it's a sound that you can hear a lot out there. They were differentiated precisely by the combination of extreme progressive + doom from the other albums, it's as if we had reconquered the old Opeth, but with something more, which is Cammie's dramatic voice. After being treated so badly by their Facebook page, I'm not willing to follow them anymore, but I listened to this album just out of curiosity. I wish them success, and it will surely come, because this more commercial appeal will always have more fans than any extreme metal strand.
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23.07.2022 - 06:08
Rating: 4
BCI
I don't like pop music.
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Black Crown Initiate have ruined a lot of bands for me...
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23.07.2022 - 06:26
Rating: 3
Eltote
Really weak effort by them, they were calling this New aproach as "New Southern gothic". And the music just sounds as a rock-blues album, they left behind all the good prog-doom stuff that made them an interesting band to become just an average soft rock band with very little to offer. It would be hard for them to step forward whit such a bad performance on this record.
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23.07.2022 - 08:21
Rating: 5
Aries Rising
It's not just the softer sound that is the problem, the songwriting is so weak and bland it just puts you to sleep.
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25.07.2022 - 19:10
skeksis25
Mmmm, this is boring. What a dissapointment
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25.07.2022 - 19:25
Rating: 5
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
This album sounds like they're trying to write a James Bond movie intro. It ends up being very very boring. It's also not progressive at all.
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14:22 - Marcel Hubregtse
I do your mum

DESTROY DRUM TRIGGERS
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02.08.2022 - 09:00
Rating: 4
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Contributor
I'm sorry to say this album doesn't work for me. I find the vocals a deep disappoint tbh, the soul style doesn't do much for me at all, they'll probably be better suited for some mainsteam chart act or something but don't sit right in a metal band. The songwriting isn't necessarily bad, just dreary, boring and unmemorable. The solo's are probably the only feature I admire tbh, but they don't happen nearly often enough.

I agree with BW's comment above, this sounds very much like a good crack at a James Bond intro, which really doesn't impress me at all
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31.08.2022 - 20:28
Rating: 7
CyberSymphony
Ollie
I actually liked this album, despite moments where I skipped and found too dull. The highlight is without doubt the female vocals but its the heavier more bombastic sound that's missing here.
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18.10.2022 - 05:52
Rating: 9
tintinb
I found this album to be a really good soul album. Cammie's voice is one of the best in the industry.
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Leeches everywhere.
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26.12.2023 - 15:10
Rating: 6
Tom Muller
Not bad but Quiet boring
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don't say that
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