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A double disc album could either mean something incredibly massive, or a lot of boring filler. Knowing these guys, it's (hopefully) the former

Written by [user id=142921] on 17.12.2014 at 17:15

What's with serpents eating their own tails on album covers these days?

If a serpent ate its whole self would it be twice as big or disappear completely?

Written by [user id=142921] on 17.12.2014 at 17:15
What's with serpents eating their own tails on album covers these days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

^ 2015 officially started now

Written by Karlabos on 26.01.2015 at 17:56

^ 2015 officially started now

Couldn't have said it better myself.

fucking Awesome!!

Nice to hear some more female vocals in BM. It's used plenty in gothic and power metal, but under-utilized in the more extreme genres. Adds to the already-present beauty, could have made more appearances. The proclamation-style vocals were definitely a grower, but are ultimately genius. There are moments where they progress into some really cool, evil sounding distorted growls like on "A Blaze of Hammers" and "An Automaton Adrift." Then there is "Proboscis:" the combination of the stage-worthy performance, indie-rock bass, and reverse track-sounding synth creates something totally hypnotic. I will say that the bass drum during the blastbeats sounds triggered and digital to me. Not sure if that is the case or not. The guitar work is fairly average for the genre. The strings and synths, on the other hand, are absolutely lovely. Also, good call on breaking up the last part of the album into multiple movements instead of forcing a 20-25 minute track on us. If the vocals were a bit more engaging, I could see myself listening to this more. Those who do like this vocal style may find this to be a 9 or 10. At $6.99 on bandcamp it's a steal. Full review here.
Enjoyability=9
Musicianship=9
Innovation=9
Overall=9

Amazing music.

Loving it more and more. Quite weird, even for AFOS, but goddamn great

Fucking loving this album, my favorite by them so far.
Disc II is a bonus disc for the deluxe version or something, right? Can't see those tracks on bandcamp.

Written by Unhealer on 05.03.2015 at 19:29

Fucking loving this album, my favorite by them so far.
Disc II is a bonus disc for the deluxe version or something, right? Can't see those tracks on bandcamp.

yep, for 500-copies special edition

Not as good as the 1st and 3rd albums, better than the 2nd though. Pawn On The Universal Chessboard is probably one of the best songs they've ever done.
They seem to be more progressive than atmospheric this time.

Stunning coverart, gotta listen to this only because of that!

Drawing Down The Rain and Proboscis Master Versus... are amazing songs. I hugely enjoyed listening to this, possibly more than their last album.

Very good album. I agree with the opinion above that this album tends to be the best in this band's discography so far. My opinion is the same.

It's really amazing how much this band has grown. One huge, mysterious puzzle of awesome is what this is

Had this on in the car tonight, and I had to convince my girlfriend that we weren't listening to Bal-Sagoth again. :/

I declare the riff at the end of "An Automation Adrift" the best riff of 2015, still nine months before the year's end.

I can hear some Ayreon and Ne Obliviscaris on this one.

For those who liked this album, you may be interested in Maladie's ...Still...
It also is a kind of avantgarde/prog black metal (but without the folky and psychedelic elements of A Forest Of Stars) and has the same spirit in terms of combination of very different atmospheres.

Hands down album of the year.

I only liked the first song, the rest of the album is a big meh.

Didn't do much for me, as I expected. I can see why people like it I suppose, but

GREAT!!! IS ONE THE MOST GREAT ALBUM THIS YEAR

Awesome album atmo BM, avant-garde, I like female vocals here, mix whit male, its just a beauty together, decent album, band knows how work whit music, boath sex vocals, lyrics what is poetry and sounds, all goes together well ---

A Forest Of Stars without boat sex is not A Forest Of Stars.

Written by [user id=142921] on 06.12.2015 at 03:20

Dem boat sex vocals

it was probably some staffer who edited it and made it look so weird