Well this album is certainly not to be missed, especially if you're a big collector of Progressive Rock. The darkness of songs such as the title track and 'One more red nightmare' show that King Crimson are a band in touch with their negative side, as well as the positive. All in all, a fantastic album, and probably their second best.

These guys are like basics of progressive metal the father of the genre progressive metal in first albums they are more progressive rock but they have a progressive metal theme in this album for me these guys are just incredibly and amazing musicians and one the best musics that i ever heard in my life

This is one of the best albums of all time and "Starless" is probably my favorite song ever. No wonder they disbanded for a while after this, it could never be topped.

Good songs here

This album is mandatory for every prog fan. Listen this album to understand that today's bands have worked over solid foundations. Opeth could not be Opeth without these guys.

Starless is so fucking gooood

What a great album this is

Ooops, just slipped into the Top 200, directly at rank 23
I have to admit, I dont quite see why.
While it might have been influential and certainly is not a bad album, I dont find much here either.
Title track, Fallen angel, Starless are nice songs.
But a 9.02 overall, I dont know.
Maybe we will see the usual haircut following a top-200 entry soon (but maybe not).

I'm not as keen on the middle three tracks, but Red and Starless are excellent.

There are times I like Red better than ITCOTCK, but it goes back and forth.

Written by Netzach on 07.10.2015 at 19:57

This is one of the best albums of all time and "Starless" is probably my favorite song ever. No wonder they disbanded for a while after this, it could never be topped.

I agree!
When band reach the top and want to continue the journey there is only two ways: go back or go downhill.
This is my favourite King Crimson album and one of the best rock album ever recorded. It has strongly inspired many modern bands like Tool (for example).
A milestone.

Jazzy and emotional.

Imagine listening to this in 1974, nothing at that time sounded as dark and evil, not even black sabbath.

Took me a while and quite a few listens to fully appreciate this album, but I can see why people have high praise for it. 'Red' is mesmerising and 'Starless' is a fantastic mixture of vulnerability and tension.

The whole album is dark, experimental and somewhat menacing, which makes for an initially challenging listen, but a rewarding one over time.

9.0/10 for me

RIP John Wetton

This is one of the best albums ever. A real progressive

Very good album but did they miss a trick with that album cover or what?

Written by Ace Frawley on 22.10.2022 at 06:52

Very good album but did they miss a trick with that album cover or what?

First time I see someone complaining about the album cover, it's iconic for a lot of people. I see nothing wrong here.