Are you really even remotely serious with your description of Agape?

Written by [user id=109200] on 01.09.2012 at 01:38

Are you really even remotely serious with your description of Agape?

Well yes, what's wrong with it? I really found it lacking.

Personally, I don't think the "shortness" of the album has any say on its quality whatsoever. I've heard too many "magnum opuses" which are proclaimed to be such just because they have "epic" album length (but totally fail to justify their billing). Going nowhere? Well, tastes differ so won't contest that. To me it was ABM album of the year, hands down.
Also; just a personal opinion. Not attacking you or anything.

Written by [user id=109200] on 01.09.2012 at 01:43

Personally, I don't think the "shortness" of the album has any say on its quality whatsoever. I've heard too many "magnum opuses" which are proclaimed to be such just because they have "epic" album length. Going nowhere? Well, tastes differ so won't contest that. To me it was ABM album of the year, hands down.
Also; just a personal opinion. Not attacking you or anything.

It's an album that always gives me mixed feelings after listening to it. I'm going to give it a listen now (it's been very long since I've initially heard it) to see if I like it more. As for the length, I think this album's flow is a little underwhelming and without a climax. With the short length it ends without climaxing IMO, but as I said, I'll listen to it now.

Written by Oaken on 01.09.2012 at 01:48

Written by [user id=109200] on 01.09.2012 at 01:43

Personally, I don't think the "shortness" of the album has any say on its quality whatsoever. I've heard too many "magnum opuses" which are proclaimed to be such just because they have "epic" album length. Going nowhere? Well, tastes differ so won't contest that. To me it was ABM album of the year, hands down.
Also; just a personal opinion. Not attacking you or anything.

It's an album that always gives me mixed feelings after listening to it. I'm going to give it a listen now (it's been very long since I've initially heard it) to see if I like it more. As for the length, I think this album's flow is a little underwhelming and without a climax. With the short length it ends without climaxing IMO, but as I said, I'll listen to it now.

Eribo - I Collect the Stars takes all that built up atmosphere and ends the album in a superb fashion, fulfilling the role of a "climax". Again, my opinion. Sorry if I act bitchy because I really have a personal affinity to that particular album, and that's saying a lot since I don't recall having this kind of connection with any kind of black metal. It just grabbed me from the word "go".

Written by [user id=109200] on 01.09.2012 at 01:53

Eribo - I Collect the Stars takes all that built up atmosphere and ends the album in a superb fashion, fulfilling the role of a "climax". Again, my opinion. Sorry if I act bitchy because I really have a personal affinity to that particular album, and that's saying a lot since I don't recall having this kind of connection with any kind of black metal. It just grabbed me from the word "go".

Yes, I recall Eribo was a great track. I'm going to listen now and report to you.

I don't understand how Watercolor... was pretentious?

Just a good, genre mixing album.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 01.09.2012 at 02:10

I don't understand how Watercolor... was pretentious?

Just a good, genre mixing album.

It's a boring album, nuff said. That guy tries to act like he's the one who can make deep, atmospheric stuff, but ends up with a noisy wall of sound. Watercolor was decent at max, but the new one is totally pretension.
My opinion only.

Well you know theres that fact that he does make some good atmospheric stuff, that's also noisy and full of awesome

Written by Boxcar Willy on 01.09.2012 at 02:27

Well you know theres that fact that he does make some good atmospheric stuff, that's also noisy and full of awesome

It seems I have an aversion to this type of stuff... It's my opinion, and you can ignore it

Just my opinion, but Verwüstung is a shitfest.

Written by [user id=109376] on 01.09.2012 at 03:04

Just my opinion, but Verwüstung is a shitfest.

I think borefest would be more fitting.

Man so many things I disagree here. Esoteric definitely isn't weakened by its length. Someone saying that simply doesn't like the style of the music at all since no one who was really into funeral doom would say such a thing and this is not a fanboy comment. Just a fact on how the songwriting of the genre is supposed to be.

Also, the Alrakis comment is so off. Doesn't take much to see that besides the space themethere's close to nothing in common with Alrakis and Darkspace Same thing but clearly not the same approach to black metal AT ALL.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 01.09.2012 at 12:35

Man so many things I disagree here. Esoteric definitely isn't weakened by its length. Someone saying that simply doesn't like the style of the music at all since no one who was really into funeral doom would say such a thing and this is not a fanboy comment. Just a fact on how the songwriting of the genre is supposed to be.

Also, the Alrakis comment is so off. Doesn't take much to see that besides the space themethere's close to nothing in common with Alrakis and Darkspace Same thing but clearly not the same approach to black metal AT ALL.

Concerning Esoteric, well you know, I just couldn't stand the sheer length. Like "when is this going to end?". It really gets tedious, and I don't actually appreciate the music very much, yet I acknowledge the band as being geniuses.
Concerning Alrakis, what I meant is that they embrace the 'cosmic' theme like Darkspace, but instead of doing it in the harsh tremolo-picking style of Darkspace, they create ambient soundscapes. Description clarified.