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Mgła - Exercises In Futility



8.9 | 637 votes |
Release date: 4 September 2015
Style: Black metal

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01. Exercises In Futility I
02. Exercises In Futility II
03. Exercises In Futility III
04. Exercises In Futility IV
05. Exercises In Futility V
06. Exercises In Futility VI

The Best Black Metal Album Of 2015
Top 20 albums of 2015: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 54

Additional info
Cover artwork made by the nineteenth century French illustrator Marcel Roux.

Guest review by
Alina Zia
Rating:
7.0
Exercises In Futility is purportedly Mgła's nonpareil album and has been dithyrambically eulogized. It has accresced the adulation of black metal's habitués over the years.

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published 05.05.2020 | Comments (21)

Guest review by
brimarsh
Rating:
9.7
After years of distancing myself from the black metal scene and community, my revisitations are brief and fleeting. I do not seek out new releases as fervently as I once did; old favorites have phased out of my habitual rotation, whether due to apathy or evolution of taste, I could not say. Yet, Mgła has remained a constant and daily indulgence. They're never further than the tip of my tongue in conversations of recommendations with the less initiated, yet open-minded pursuant of music?and I consider their entire discography to be of utmost importance in not only black metal, but in the entirety of metal's more extreme subsets.

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published 28.08.2020 | Comments (24)

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05.01.2016 - 20:06
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by [user id=157444] on 05.01.2016 at 20:05


"Generally, black metal strives to be inaccessible to the mainstream and those who are not committed."

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened"

Yeah, I can do random, out of context quotes too
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05.01.2016 - 20:07
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
You taking yourself seriously?
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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05.01.2016 - 20:25
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by [user id=157444] on 05.01.2016 at 20:21

I thought it was obvious that this isnt BM as it is mainstream. Read the qoute again.
What makes this BM for you?

It isn't mainstream. Mgla would not sell out a large venue like other mainstream bands do. Mgla have a large following in the circuit of black metal, but that doesn't make it mainstream.

That, though, is irrelevant, and one of the dumbest things I've seen written in a while. A band's genre is not defined by its popularity. By your definition, if Mgla had never gained as much popularity, but still made the same music, it would be classed as black metal. What the hell does being a slightly popular black metal band have to do with it suddenly becoming speed metal? A genre is a style of playing, not how many fans it has.
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05.01.2016 - 20:51
Zap
Does it have lyrics about Satan though? That's what really defines a band's music genre; lyrics.
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05.01.2016 - 20:54
Rating: 6
Karlabos
^ Of course! What would be of viking and pagan metal bands if it wasn't the case?
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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05.01.2016 - 20:58
Zap
Written by Karlabos on 05.01.2016 at 20:54

^ Of course! What would be of viking and pagan metal bands if it wasn't the case?

I don't really know much about those genres. They would... be singing about chicks, booze, and college?
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14.01.2016 - 15:46
LuciferOfGayness
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Written by Zap on 05.01.2016 at 20:51

Does it have lyrics about Satan though? That's what really defines a band's music genre; lyrics.

To me it seems like the lyrics are just plain and boring nihilism, with some touches of boredom.
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14.01.2016 - 20:26
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
Written by Zap on 05.01.2016 at 20:51

Does it have lyrics about Satan though? That's what really defines a band's music genre; lyrics.

Fuck me, so Bathory, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and Akercocke are all black metal now? I'll be damned.
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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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14.01.2016 - 20:57
Rating: 8
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
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Written by Auntie Sahar on 14.01.2016 at 20:26
Fuck me, so Bathory are all black metal now? I'll be damned.

Well... Bathory is black metal, but then it got too known.
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Like you could kiss my ass

Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.

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14.01.2016 - 23:03
no one
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?awesome
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14.01.2016 - 23:13
Rating: 6
Karlabos
Written by X-Ray Rod on 14.01.2016 at 20:57

Well... Bathory is black metal, but then it got too known.

So it's blackened speed then? Or is it already speed metal only?
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
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14.01.2016 - 23:22
Zap
It's post-death rock guys. Oh, wait, I have my entertaining idiots mixed up.
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17.01.2016 - 17:19
Rating: 10
Nor.eX-AN
Beast!
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22.01.2016 - 13:02
Rating: 10
K|ng
This album is full of mindblowing riffs and drums! First track is an extrem exercise of headbanging and pleasure.. This beauty is a pure masterpiece and the best album of the year for me. Thank you a lot Mgla.
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05.02.2016 - 11:20
Fallen Ghost
Craft Beer Geek
Into the second song, and until now: SHIT! This is some really good black metal! Very interesting, good riffs, melodic yet raw.. I hope the rest of the album will be as good!
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29.02.2016 - 13:36
Constantine
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I am not into black metal at all, but this is freaking amazing. 10/10 I dare say.
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01.03.2016 - 19:49
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
How this won BM in the MSA over A Forest Of Stars, Leviathan, Volahn, and Mispyrming just has me baffled as fuck
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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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01.03.2016 - 22:35
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
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Would I like this? Anyone? Anyone that knows me?
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01.03.2016 - 22:38
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by tea[m]ster on 01.03.2016 at 22:35

Would I like this? Anyone? Anyone that knows me?

Listen to one track and judge by that. They all sound the frickin' same with this band.
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01.03.2016 - 22:40
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
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Written by [user id=4365] on 01.03.2016 at 22:38

Listen to one track and judge by that. They all sound the frickin' same with this band.

Aww man, that's pretty generic - I need to know if I have to waste 2 minutes of my life and press play on a bandcamp page or something, lol.
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01.03.2016 - 22:42
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by tea[m]ster on 01.03.2016 at 22:40

Aww man, that's pretty generic - I need to know if I have to waste 2 minutes of my life and press play on a bandcamp page or something, lol.

Well the ridiculous popularity and praise this band / album has gotten this / last year probably means it worth you trying it out for a few minutes. Maybe you'll see something in it that I don't.
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01.03.2016 - 22:44
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
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Written by [user id=4365] on 01.03.2016 at 22:42

Well the ridiculous popularity and praise this band / album has gotten this / last year probably means it worth you trying it out for a few minutes. Maybe you'll see something in it that I don't.

That's more like it! Ok, Ima gonna check now...
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01.03.2016 - 22:46
Rating: 9
Paz
777
Elite
Haters gonna hate. Mgwah rulez!

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01.03.2016 - 22:53
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Contributor
What is with black metal and non-existent bass. This sound is way to "fluffy". I like the riffs and melodies but there just isn't enough "oomph".
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01.03.2016 - 22:58
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by tea[m]ster on 01.03.2016 at 22:53

What is with black metal and non-existent bass.

You might like Wormlust
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01.03.2016 - 22:59
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Contributor
Written by [user id=4365] on 01.03.2016 at 22:58

You might like Wormlust

On it.
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01.03.2016 - 23:01
Rating: 6
Karlabos
"fluffy" heh?
I'm gonna use that to describe sounds on my future reviews
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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01.03.2016 - 23:05
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
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Written by Karlabos on 01.03.2016 at 23:01

"fluffy" heh?
I'm gonna use that to describe sounds on my future reviews

It's lighter than one of my feathered pillows lol.
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01.03.2016 - 23:11
no one
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Not enough psychedallic blackened trendcore
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02.03.2016 - 14:13
Rating: 10
K|ng
Maybe this video helps you to feel the sick atmosphere that this album produce so nicely. The repeated riffs that you saying that makes you bored, are actually the most usefull tool to reach this atmosphere approach. On 06.00 minute of this video is the absolute perfection of how horrifying sickness can be produced so damn well. If you cannot feel it, you propably ain't gonna like this album. It's the personal taste that makes the difference after all.

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