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[J.]

 

[J.]

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This EP is a fucking masterpiece. The days of glorious death doom really are gone.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I will never understand why this album is widely dismissed as mediocre, it is so blatantly fantastic to me. It flags a bit in the middle with Fast to Madness/Hall of the King and the Barbara Ann cover is an abomination, but other than that it's a 10/10. Banish From Sanctuary is basically the best song ever, Damned for All Time/title track/Beyond the Ice/Valhalla are all amazing.

 

[Phylactery]

That SDG album is so good. I'm just a bit annoyed that the Obtained Enslavement cover and the final track drag it down a bit. The cover isn't bad, but totally unnecessary and the final track is just a bit bland.

 

[Sirjack]

Bludhbuugh indeed

love some Slayer clones

 

[Talos of Atmora]

I will never understand why this album is widely dismissed as mediocre, it is so blatantly fantastic to me. It flags a bit in the middle with Fast to Madness/Hall of the King and the Barbara Ann cover is an abomination, but other than that it's a 10/10. Banish From Sanctuary is basically the best song ever, Damned for All Time/title track/Beyond the Ice/Valhalla are all amazing.

While I believe that Somewhere Far Beyond is the triumphant pinnacle of their power/speed era, that album is impeccably written and easily second best.

 

[CiG]

More people need to hear this album. Top-tier Manilla Road.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

 

[Doomguy]

 

[Vilden]

More people need to hear this album. Top-tier Manilla Road.

Yeah, was going to point this out. While I love Follow the Blind, I think Spiral Castle is just as overlooked (by fans of each band, obv BG is generally more liked).

 

[Vegard Pompey]

A lot of people seem to think this album is just a tired facsimile of Voivod's old style, an insincere "return to the roots" à la Death Magnetic. I strongly disagree. I feel like they've integrated the more straightforward, upbeat, almost hard-rocky style of their 00s output with the weirdness of their 80s material and the end result really clicks with me. It's not as vital as their classic work nor as tight as the Post Society EP but god damn it's still fucking good. It's amazing to me how strong this band is still going three fucking decades into their career even after losing their most indispensable member.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

A lot of people seem to think this album is just a tired facsimile of Voivod's old style, an insincere "return to the roots" à la Death Magnetic. I strongly disagree. I feel like they've integrated the more straightforward, upbeat, almost hard-rocky style of their 00s output with the weirdness of their 80s material

Very well said. I think its just as good, if not better than Post Society though.

 

[zerostatic]

 

[Talos of Atmora]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

TIME HAS COME

 

[CiG]

I love that record, much better than the album immediately after it and the debut.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Nah, Down Among the Deadmen is on a totally different level. Still great though.

 

[CiG]

I agree, a different level beneath Twilight of the Idols.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Nothing on this album has the emotional impact of Cauldron of Blood or Psionic Illuminations.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

WE ARE FOREVER CAPTURED
BY THE EMBRACE OF DEATH