Naglfar - Téras review
| Band: | Naglfar |
| Album: | Téras |
| Style: | Melodic black metal |
| Release date: | March 26, 2012 |
| A review by: | wormdrink414 |
01. Téras
02. Pale Horse
03. III: Death Dimension Phantasma
04. The Monolith
05. An Extension Of His Arm And Will
06. Bring Out Your Dead
07. Come Perdition
08. Invoc(H)ate
09. The Dying Flame Of Existence
10. Tired Bones [digipak bonus]
This is one of those albums that just won't give the person listening to it a strong opinion. Like the Herman Cain of black metal albums. It sounds sorta cool?everyone loves Godfather's?but nothing it says (about BM) is interesting. At all.
It's almost got a cynical feel to it. Like they know what they're playing is anodyne, but they know that anodyne sells pretty well. People buy the facade of extremity just as much (if not a lot more) than actual extremity when it comes to music. Or at least that's the way it seems.
None of that is to say that this doesn't sound decent, though. There are, like with Vittra and Pariah, a lot of great riffs and evil-sounding melodies here. Occasionally you'll be able to really feel the malice of the vocals and the angry buzz of the hate-filled riffs, which, if taking a track at face value, is sometimes all that's needed to be enjoyable.
It's just that it's heard it before kind of stuff in the end. It doesn't push any boundaries--seems like they didn't even try. Just like with their previous albums. Not that that's a bad thing; a lot of times it isn't for me. This is full of fairly simple, zone-out, malevolent-sounding, slickly produced tunes. If that's all you want, you'll get enough from this release. But if that kind of black metal is boring to you, you probably won't.
 | Written on 26.04.2012 by Wormdrink's real name is George and he's an American. |
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
And now wait for all the pissed off fanboys to come out of the woodwork and whine about the rating.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Account deleted Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 26.04.2012 at 19:10 But Solemn23 already tucked his tail between his legs and ran 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by [user id=4365] on 26.04.2012 at 19:15 Unfortunately there are more fanboys of this band around. Jut look at how apeshite they went over their previous releases. And how this band still qualifies as orthodox bm to Solemn23 is still beyond me.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15288  |
Naglfar was the band that made me disregard MS user ratings as a whole, and probably the root cause of my jihad against rating abusers (moreso the 9.85 avg vote types than tankers)... got Sheol because everything they had released was rated over a 9 at the time. loved it first couple listens through, then by four, was just meh. uninteresting and uninspiring. after checking out a few clips from others, more of the same... and i imagine this would be just MORE more of the same. but hey, people go apeshit over it, so no need to change anything up.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
This band hasn't been relevant since their debut in my opinion. One good release in an otherwise sea of mediocrity. I have no idea why they have fanboys in the first place... Well, to be honest, it's actually because of Vittra. :/ Perfectly accurate rating and description in spite of the fact I haven't listened to it myself. I just know it's going to be more of the same though...
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Grody2themax Posts: 240  |
Quote: Ridiculously subjective. You're saying the band is playing black metal because they know it will sell well? Kinda putting words into their mouth lol.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9162  |
6.6 I see what you did there. Anyway, Based on this, I'm going to pass on this.
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| BaneConall Fart Enthusiast Posts: 251 |
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| Dani5050 Posts: 76  |
I kind of agree with the rating although I will give it a 7, for some reason I didn't like your review don't know maybe the way its written its a boring album that's for sure.
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| Daniell _爱情_ Elite Posts: 6106  |
Written by Grody2themax on 27.04.2012 at 00:22 Every review is subjective. Get it through your head, or stop reading reviews 
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| Grody2themax Posts: 240 |
Written by Daniell on 30.04.2012 at 13:31 Subjectivity is fine if it has substance other than assumption to it. No hate on reviews, but I'd rather hear a bit more musical dissection/analysis to some of them.
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| Daniell _爱情_ Elite Posts: 6106 |
Written by Grody2themax on 03.05.2012 at 05:45 when a band releases yet another album that's completely identical to the previous 4, there is no need for the dissertation of music in my opinion. It won't increase the rating either, so what's the point.
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| Alex F Posts: 3519  |
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| Deadmeat Necrobutcher Posts: 2437  |
Really average album i agree with the review. too bad for them. the more of their works i listen to the harder i find to understand why i found "Pariah" astonishing when i first listened to it..
---- Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62060  |
Written by Alex F on 17.08.2012 at 20:36 what?
---- 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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| Alex F Posts: 3519 |
Written by Bad English on 31.12.2018 at 00:37 Because all of his other projects are great but Naglfar is fuckin boring.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62060 |
Written by Alex F on 14.01.2019 at 03:10 Bulshit
---- 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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