Thank you, Cynic.

Also, Luci and Danny, edit your nested quotes. It's completely unnecessary for that much of the previous conversation to be re-posted. Edit your quotes down so that only the last part comes through.

I'm not sure what to make of this album, I bought it on google play when i saw the score of 9.5. I'm not sold, I'm not even sure its metal.

It is not perfect (the production!) and few songs sound like fillers to me, but overall, I needed something like this, since i´ve first heard Remmirath... Yeah it is refreshing and interesting, but more than a little bit hipsterish too. For instance tak a last Mgła album - it is great and very solid BM, but nothing new to the genre. So I would say that we need those kind of hipsters, just to feel refreshed for a while...

I really thought this album sounded cool in concept, but I thought the execution of the genre-blending, especially with the hip-hop, just felt lifeless and stale.

Thank you for the review, and introducing this band. This is really good music!

Thank you for introducing this wonderful band. Sounds incredible

Really good album. Very impressive and creative.

Let us get one thing straight here...look at this guys history....he wasnt into black metal.....he does POP music.....he ripped off other REAL black metal blues artist like Dreadlords...and people think he is this great thing.....typical sheep trend shit. Sad.........

Written by ANCIENT SKIN on 30.08.2016 at 00:14

Let us get one thing straight here...look at this guys history....he wasnt into black metal.....he does POP music.....he ripped off other REAL black metal blues artist like Dreadlords...and people think he is this great thing.....typical sheep trend shit. Sad.........

If in the past he play this or that kind of music doesn't really prevent anyone from trying another genre. I suppose he is still allowed to play BM if he wants to.

Problem is that this isn't even BM. I gave quite a few more spins as it is short and easy to digest but I fail to see any reason to join the hype train.

As I said, there is hardly any BM in it, hell, metal is hardly even predominant. This isn't necessarily bad but the metal parts aren't interesting (bland riffs and standard drum-programming. Meh!), feels very disjoint and sort of a mashup of rushed or unfinished ideas, and even manages to add some filler in such short time.

I do think this guy has some potential for electro music (Sacrilegium I is a great tune!) or blues (title track and Blood in the river). Overall just leaves a big "MEH" feeling on me but I can understand that some people get impressed because it's "avant-garde & shit" and ends up totally overrated.

Written by Vombatus on 30.08.2016 at 01:08
If in the past he play this or that kind of music doesn't really prevent anyone from trying another genre. I suppose he is still allowed to play BM if he wants to.

Problem is that this isn't even BM. I gave quite a few more spins as it is short and easy to digest but I fail to see any reason to join the hype train.

As I said, there is hardly any BM in it, hell, metal is hardly even predominant. This isn't necessarily bad but the metal parts aren't interesting (bland riffs and standard drum-programming. Meh!), feels very disjoint and sort of a mashup of rushed or unfinished ideas, and even manages to add some filler in such short time.

I do think this guy has some potential for electro music (Sacrilegium I is a great tune!) or blues (title track and Blood in the river). Overall just leaves a big "MEH" feeling on me but I can understand that some people get impressed because it's "avant-garde & shit" and ends up totally overrated.

Agreed...way overated, and also agree its good to try something new. That Dreadlords band, is members of T.O.M.B. and they are Black Metal/noise. But they were the first band I saw and heard doing this black metal blues thing. I saw them several years ago at CMJ in NYC, and when I read Z+A interviews, its like he took words right out of their mouths when talking about his music. Z+A also mentioned how he was into blackmetal for years, but again past projects/released he did never mentioned that influence and not even close to getting the same attention as this. It also funny that SACRILEGIUM is also a T.O.M.B. release done years ago. Just funny.... what I would real like to see is Dreadlords and Zeal and Ardor do a show together......but doubt that would happen... Z+A seems not to be able to do his material live. That would be a real bill to see!!!

Written by ANCIENT SKIN on 30.08.2016 at 22:24

Agreed...way overated, and also agree its good to try something new. That Dreadlords band, is members of T.O.M.B. and they are Black Metal/noise. But they were the first band I saw and heard doing this black metal blues thing. I saw them several years ago at CMJ in NYC, and when I read Z+A interviews, its like he took words right out of their mouths when talking about his music. Z+A also mentioned how he was into blackmetal for years, but again past projects/released he did never mentioned that influence and not even close to getting the same attention as this. It also funny that SACRILEGIUM is also a T.O.M.B. release done years ago. Just funny.... what I would real like to see is Dreadlords and Zeal and Ardor do a show together......but doubt that would happen... Z+A seems not to be able to do his material live. That would be a real bill to see!!!

I'm only a bit familiar with both Dreadlords and T.O.M.B. (looking forward to the new album with Hellhammer!) but didn't really think of a link with Z&A. Could see a common bluesy idea, but they do sound quite different. Z&A is way too electro but also disjoint and inconsistent album wise compared to Dreadlords.
Also read an interview about the Z&A guy saying he was contemplating a live show if he could find proper logistics to do it (not surprised as most of the music is computer generated anyway, except for the guitar... laaaame hehe). Don't really care about him, Z&A is a bit too overrated in my opinion. It's hardly interesting and thought-out. More a sloppy novelty than quality.