Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Tracklist
01. Venator02. From Scythe To Sceptre
03. Outlive The Hand
04. Sun's Delusion
05. Held In Hollows
06. Husks
07. Aspect
08. Countless Skies
Additional info
Produced by Warren Hammond and Be'lakor.Recorded with Warren Hammond and Phil Forbes at Pennydrop Audio, Melbourne in the early months of 2009.
Piano recorded at Sing Sing Recording Studios, Melbourne.
Mastered at Crystal Mastering, Melbourne, 2009.
Cover artwork - 'Head of Medusa' by Gianfrancesco A. (geanfrancois.deviantart.com/[email protected]).
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After hearing and reviewing the first offering of Melodic Death Metal from Australia's Be'lakor I found it to be a rather promising debut. The promise wasn't misplaced either as the band have backed themselves up rather nicely with this new album entitled Stone's Reach. While their previous release The Frail Tide was good, the new album is cleaner production-wise and I think a deeper piece of work as well. Read more ›› |
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When I listened to this album for the first time my first thought was "this is clearly melodic death, but there's something about it", something that marks the line between another copy and a new way of design from the same prototype. Despite the guitars following Gothenburg death metal, one innovation of this band is the demarcation of that style because there's no chorus/verse imposed law, there's no fear of falling into doom or entering solos at low speed. It's very important to be creative inside the musical genres and this Australian group achieve it in a brilliant way. Read more ›› |
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Is it bad that I didn't enjoy this album as much as the 2 after it? It just sounds a bit bland compared with the likes of Vessels or Of Breath and Bone (my favourite of theirs). Still a great album, but not worthy of a 9 or 10 IMO.
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The album that got me into the band. Nothing but quality prog-death.
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I started listening to it due to the high ratings. Can't say that this is my fav Melodeath record, it's quality music with your typical vocals for that genre.
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I thought that this album was nothing really special and a bit overrated, although I liked the closer track very much.
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Absolutely unbelievably magical melodic death metal!  The guitar melodies are beautiful, captivating, intense, and simply awe-inspiring! The growling vocals are mesmerizing; the lyrics are mysterious - everything is fantastic! This might be the epitome of melodic death metal, (in my opinion) surpassing The Jester Race and The Gallery!  My favorite songs are "From the Scythe to Sceptre", "Countless Skies", "Held in Hollows", "Outlive the Hand", and "The Venator" (the melodies, riffs, and solos are divine in these songs!)
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Posts: 2790 Written by F3ynman on 17.12.2021 at 22:16 Cancel out BWP (which is not MDM) and add Damage Done to this list and you indeed have the epidome of MDM by taking all these albums together (if you ask me). 
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"From Scythe to Sceptre" is one of the most incredible songs of all time  Sooo many different badass riffs, solos, and great lyrics as the cherry on top... I was just listening to it again and it shot straight up to my top 30 in my favorite songs list!
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Repetetive and far too long. I got bored halfway through. I really don't see what's so great about this album 
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It's very nicely crafted together, it's clear that alot of depth has gone into this, and it certainly has quality musicianship. I really like the bass work, and some of the melodies are ok, some of it sounds a wee bit bland though at times, "Countless Skies" is probably overall my favourite song on the album, unfortunately there's nothing else I find that memorable tbh. Some melodies remind me alot of Insomnium, but I also get alot of Opeth vibes too, from the progressive side of it, Omnium Gatherum is another band with similar qualities, all of which are bands I've never really been fully into. After the first few listens it left me feeling unimpressed, but since revisiting I find it has grown on me slightly, but not enough to really win me over.
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Pretty unbelievable that an album this recent has such a high rating. Not sure if I've ever listened to this in full.
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Well crafted indeed but for somehow I don't like the vocals so much as I like in similar bands like Dark Tranquility or Insomnium. It has lot of good riffs but in today's standards I needed even more
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The peak of melodeath. Venator is one of the greatest opening tracks I have ever heard.
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My personal Top 3 songs from the album: From Scythe To Sceptre Countless Skies Venator
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Posts: 20 Written by Plattner on 20.04.2025 at 17:59 Man. How many albums did you put your top three best songs on? Haha
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The vocals are not a highlight and in general the structure is simple But the effectiveness in the melodies and riffs is undeniable. Even who doesn’t listen to this subgenre too much could appreciate it
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Posts: 1270 Written by DenOr on 21.04.2025 at 00:09 Thank you for your interest. So far, I am at album 79 with the "Top 3 Songs" series. Since I am going through the albums of my collection in alphabetical order, you can track the previous entries if you are interested. This also means that (currently) there are 824 more to come. However, this is not a "real-time" project for the most part. For many albums, I already have the Top 3 entries for the organization of my collection. I will add them to MS step by step.
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Countless tops above me Albums rose and fell Ageless charts eroding out Across the endless swell
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Stoked to see these guys live very soon! They could just play this album from front to back and I wouldn't complain.
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If things got better with live shows, ı think they will be willing to please worldwide fans.(Which I hope eagerly)
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Gave this album a listen after rather long tome, forgot how good it is.
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