Slumber - Fallout

Such a great album. I didn't used to enjoy doom metal very much until this band introduced me to the melodic doom subgenre.

9.3/10 for me - Conflict is the best track, Rapture and A Wanderer's Star are also fantastic, and all other tracks are great IMO.

It's a good album, but I don't find it great, it has some nice atmospheric parts, and with a touch of melody. It reminds me of a more melodic version of Katatonia, the way the mid tempo riffs develop into a slightly depressive atmosphere.

Very enjoyable album, even catchy I dare say. Atmospheric, nice flow all throughout the album.

As a doom metal listener for almost 20 years, I must say that It's such a great unique album, it is the first album I couldn't find in the country so I bought from abroad and waited for a month to obtain a few years ago. It is a priceless, dark death doom product.

Written by Slayer666 on 30.10.2011 at 14:57

Written by [user id=4365] on 29.10.2011 at 15:35

That means nothing really. The recent Insomnium had a similar score, as did the last Septic Flesh, they weren't worth more than 7ish. Any kind of melodic doom or melodeath gets absurdly high scores these days.

You sure know how to crush a little boy's big dreams, doncha?
Sadly, you're completely right. The first two listens revealed nothing spectacular, but I'll give it a bit more time before I rate it (and yeah, I feel a 7 coming).

EDIT: Ya, definitely a pretty good release, but not worthy of a 9.1 by any stretch of imagination.
Imma give it a strong 8.

10/10 for me, it is still one of my all time favourite albums 20 years later.