Yep.Album of the Fucking Year
The more I listen to this album, the more I love it.
The strained vocal part in A Chore for the Lost fucking rules
Agreed. In a year or so, I expect to love it the way I now love Kenose, an album that needed a lot of time to really ripen. Besides, so far I haven't even looked at the lyrics of Fas and only shot a glance at the booklet
Of the extremly few albums from this year which I've heard, this one and Belenos' are fighting for the first spot.
I like how bands release 1 or 2 great albums and then as if by magic they're above criticism while still a fad
DsO are getting a LOT of bandwidth here just because the excitement of "Si Monumentum..." hasn't really died down yet
BTW I heard Infernal Battles and Inquisitors Of Satan before I heard SMRC (though this was after SMRC was already being praised).
I actually only heard those first because that was before I was buying things online and the local store didn't have SMRC for a long time.