A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
| Release date: | 28 September 2018 |
| Style: | Atmospheric black metal |
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Disc I
01. Persistence Is All
02. Precipice Pirouette
03. Tombward Bound
04. Premature Invocation
05. Children Of The Night Soil
06. Taken By The Sea
07. Scripturally Transmitted Disease
08. Decomposing Deity Dancehall
Disc II ["Folklore For The Flies" EP - Limited Boxset Only]
01. So Much Walking Dust (Parasite For Sore Eyes)
02. Plight Of The Uneven Heathen
01. Persistence Is All
02. Precipice Pirouette
03. Tombward Bound
04. Premature Invocation
05. Children Of The Night Soil
06. Taken By The Sea
07. Scripturally Transmitted Disease
08. Decomposing Deity Dancehall
Disc II ["Folklore For The Flies" EP - Limited Boxset Only]
01. So Much Walking Dust (Parasite For Sore Eyes)
02. Plight Of The Uneven Heathen
Review
Lyrics Dan Eyre - vocals
Richard "Rick" Blakelock - percussions, synthesizers, piano, drums
Jon B. Cumiskey - guitars, cello, backing vocals
Mr. William Wight-Barrow - guitars, 12 string guitar
Katie Stone - flutes, violin, vocals
John Bishop - drums,
Mr. Titus Lungbutter - bass, fretless bass
Additional info
Produced by A Forest Of Stars. Mixed and mastered by Robert Hobson. Engineered by The Gentleman and T. S. Kettleburner.
Rating:
9.0
9.0
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Rating: 9.0 |
Two things are unfair about Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes: how high the bar was set by previous records, and how unfair it is for other bands that they have to compete with A Forest Of Stars. Read more ›› |
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| 3rdWorld China was a neat Posts: 4367  |
Last one was a masterpiece and will be hard to live up to but this sounds promising.
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| Desha delicious dish Posts: 817  |
Making of cover:
---- You are the hammer, I am the nail building a house in the fire on the hill
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| Mercurial Posts: 1175  |
Nuvva song:
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| Darkside Momo Retired Elite Posts: 9089  |
Methinks I'll like this album 
---- My Author's Blog (in French)  "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" "I've lost too many years now I'm stealing back my soul I am awake"
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| Desha delicious dish Posts: 817 |
First listen: Doesn't compare to the last two records. But they actually did some interesting stuff and my fear of them just becoming like an Ashenspire were crushed. So no disappointment. Needs more listens.
---- You are the hammer, I am the nail building a house in the fire on the hill
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| Darkside Momo Retired Elite Posts: 9089 |
Written by Desha on 27.09.2018 at 22:08 Must say that I mostly agree with you. But I'm sure I'll get to like it more on future listens 
---- My Author's Blog (in French) "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" "I've lost too many years now I'm stealing back my soul I am awake"
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| Czerny Reiter Posts: 291  |
Absolutely loving this record. Is it just me - not that I'm any sort of authority to quote - or does the middle part of Premature Invocation veer into outright... rap country?
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| Desha delicious dish Posts: 817 |
Written by Czerny Reiter on 28.09.2018 at 18:25 yes
---- You are the hammer, I am the nail building a house in the fire on the hill
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| Zap Posts: 3577  |
Another worthy addition to quite a consistently high quality discography. Needs more listens to decide if it's better than its predecessor but for now I feel like it's at least on par.
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| Zap Posts: 3577 |
Written by Czerny Reiter on 28.09.2018 at 18:25 Ehm... I'm gonna need another listen because I did not notice something like that at all.
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| Lord Slothrop Posts: 411  |
The bits of narration still rub me the wrong way at times, but there's no denying the brilliance of this band.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62001  |
Maybe best ABM band over in a universe, much better as some Norwegian ones, even those what Che mentioned in his article like one month ago. Its nice, as I was expected from this one.
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| InnerSelf proofread free Posts: 2676  |
I like having my ridiculously high hopes for an album fulfilled, will never get tired of the way those guys do their Black Metal, one of the few bands that can claim that no other band sounds like them.
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3407  |
I don't think this is as good as the previous 2 albums, although to be fair the bar was set pretty high. Better than Thieves, about on par with Rebirth. Maybe better? Now I'm curious about the Scrofula trilogy.
---- "Another day, another Doug." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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| Fallen Ghost Craft Beer Geek Posts: 724  |
Wow... This was a nice surprise, I love how theatrical it sounds! Gonna listen even more to this
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| CyberSymphony Ollie Posts: 673  |
I think i prefer the previous album for being more memorable to me, but this album is still very good.
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| Desha delicious dish Posts: 817 |
Appreciating this more now, I really like it. Still think the last two before this were better, but it's got a unique charme to it.
---- You are the hammer, I am the nail building a house in the fire on the hill
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| Desha delicious dish Posts: 817 |
Written by Desha on 30.04.2020 at 21:09 Took 2 more years but now I think this might be my favourite of theirs. It flows so well and the theme of death throughout the whole album makes for some really fun lines and imagery.
---- You are the hammer, I am the nail building a house in the fire on the hill
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| Frasier Crane Posts: 29  |
My first time listening to A Forest Of Stars. I really dig the Current 93-esque vocals, almost sounding like what would happen if David Tibet formed his own black metal band.
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