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...And Oceans - Cosmic World Mother



7.8 | 144 votes |
Release date: 8 May 2020
Style: Symphonic black metal

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01. The Dissolution Of Mind And Matter
02. Vigilance And Atrophy
03. Five Of Swords
04. As The After Becomes The Before
05. Cosmic World Mother
06. Helminthiasis
07. Oscillator Epitaph
08. In Abhorrence Upon Meadows
09. Apokatastasis
10. One Of Light, One Of Soil
11. The Flickering Lights

Staff review by
Troy Killjoy
Rating:
7.0
Forget everything you knew about ...And Oceans. And if you didn't know anything about them, let Cosmic World Mother tutor you on their absolute rollercoaster of a career.

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published 20.08.2020 | Comments (9)

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09.05.2020 - 10:36
Maco
Pvt Funderground
On my first listen this sounds pretty amazing. Completely traditional sympho black that pleases.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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09.05.2020 - 14:36
Rating: 10
MetalHead9494

Amazing album! Perfect mixture between Symphonic Black and Industrial, creating an atmospheric near phsycedelic experience! For me album of the year so far!
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09.05.2020 - 21:04
Rating: 9
FYA
Destroyer
This is really solid album! I was afraid that after long time they came up with something medicore but surprisingly - it's very good! And that mix of symphonic and electronics is great!

Btw. just realised that there's new vocalist and he's from Finntroll.
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10.05.2020 - 14:18
SchrödingersCat

Have never listened to symphonic black much, but have to say I was blown away by this.

Sheer northern blizzard. The way symphonic is fused with the overall sound is brilliant.
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Avantgarde / Psychedelic / Prog / Jazz / Fusion / Electronica
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11.05.2020 - 22:06
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
It sounds good. Gave me Behemoth-ic vibes.
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13.05.2020 - 12:07
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 11.05.2020 at 22:06

It sounds good. Gave me Behemoth-ic vibes.

How what are you smoking did gunch catfish did bite you something?
Its not even close
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Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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13.05.2020 - 12:08
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Its amazing mix between melo,s ympho, atmo DM whit some industrial outfit in pictures. Its good we,it get hig votes, did not desapointed me.
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
apos;'
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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13.05.2020 - 21:13
Rating: 7
tintinb

Somehow I just didn't get the industrial vibes at all. The album sounds tedious after a few listens, plainly because how heavy it is, albeit having some killer black metal tunes.
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Leeches everywhere.
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28.05.2020 - 15:10
Krell

A taste of dimmu borgir
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31.05.2020 - 21:18
Rating: 7
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
This takes me back to when I first started exploring the various types of more accessible black metal, like Old Man's Child, Agathodaimon, and Graveworm. The mixing somewhat muffles the backing symphonic elements, which in my opinion is a benefit to the overall sound, but the riffs are a little too samey throughout for any strong replay value. Despite my aversion to some of the stylistic choices made, this is still surprisingly much better than anything I was expecting from them. This doesn't just come across like a release for the sake of it; there's an underlying sense of invigoration from the beginning.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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03.07.2020 - 01:50
Aries Rising

I get more of a symphonic melo-death vibe from this, not symphonic black.
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12.07.2020 - 20:40
Rating: 7
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Aries Rising on 03.07.2020 at 01:50

I get more of a symphonic melo-death vibe from this, not symphonic black.

Depending on the moment, they seem to switch between their black and death metal influences on the fly. Personally I think the overall sound lends itself slightly more to the black metal side of things, but the death metal undertones are worth noting.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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18.07.2020 - 21:36
Rating: 6
metalbrat

It's more like symphonic metal core with very few standout portions here and there. Traces of black metal can be found. It's as if they are trying to find out their style between deathcore, death metal, black metal or melodic dm but surely they induced symphony into it.
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In the beginning I was made of clay. Then I bit the apple and they changed me to metal 🤘
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07.08.2020 - 21:12
Rating: 7
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Metalcore??
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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20.01.2021 - 13:56
Rating: 8
Liafev

Somehow I don't feel the symphonic aspects are that strong in this one, I would rather label it melodic black I think.
Great album anyway, my favourite black release for 2020.
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20.01.2021 - 14:45
Rating: 6
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
It's funny how the expectations are based on what you felt back then rather than on the sound itself.
Sounds just like And Oceans except that I didn't like it very much. Tbh this genre has been done several times for me to be interested now

I wouldn't mind another Havoc Unit album tho
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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20.01.2021 - 23:07
nikarg

Written by Liafev on 20.01.2021 at 13:56

Somehow I don't feel the symphonic aspects are that strong in this one, I would rather label it melodic black I think.

Exactly.
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