lord hypnos > artifacts of the black rain

[noahfor]

So, find me in these grandiose halls
where long ago summers eternally fall
and tune the strings of truthful longing
to the frozen music of gods

 

[Overlord Purple Rainbow]

Damn...

I have to agree with you. But it doesn't beat it by much.

Those guitars at the beginning of "Artifacts" are just...majestic...

 

[brownden]

Hypnos edges out Artifacts by a small margin

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

False. Artifacts is superior.

 

[Erik Erna]

I'd have to say I like Artifacts better...

 

[stizzleomnibus]

The breakdown in Lord Hynos is fucking fantastic. Right after the topic-starters lyrics, that next section is amazing. Everything after that is boss as well. When the chorus melody reappears at 3:36, but with the added layer of harmony, I go places. That song is very important in the course of my life, and represents an important moment in which I fell into melodeath and realized that I would never go back to who I was.

Artifacts is pretty generic death metal, except for the chorus and breakdown. The chorus is the kind of awesome "guitar singing" we expect from old Stromblad. Back when he was a second voice in every song, saying what words couldn't. Fuck.

The breakdown gets pretty awesome itself, but it comes across, to me, as a do-over of the breakdown of Stand Ablaze. The use a pretty similar structure, and the same riffing style.

Now prepare. I am going to fuck your mind.

Stand Ablaze: 3 minutes and 14 seconds.



Franz Liszt, Grandes études de Paganini, Étude No. 6 (Theme and Variations) (A minor): 2 minutes and 48 seconds.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYF3zEDCc84&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Stand Ablaze is also superior to Lord H.

 

[krofius]

The breakdown in Lord Hynos is fucking fantastic. Right after the topic-starters lyrics, that next section is amazing. Everything after that is boss as well. When the chorus melody reappears at 3:36, but with the added layer of harmony, I go places. That song is very important in the course of my life, and represents an important moment in which I fell into melodeath and realized that I would never go back to who I was.

Artifacts is pretty generic death metal, except for the chorus and breakdown. The chorus is the kind of awesome "guitar singing" we expect from old Stromblad. Back when he was a second voice in every song, saying what words couldn't. Fuck.

The breakdown gets pretty awesome itself, but it comes across, to me, as a do-over of the breakdown of Stand Ablaze. The use a pretty similar structure, and the same riffing style.

Now prepare. I am going to fuck your mind.

Stand Ablaze: 3 minutes and 14 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ2pT6mBrTM

Franz Liszt, Grandes études de Paganini, Étude No. 6 (Theme and Variations) (A minor): 2 minutes and 48 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYF3zEDCc84&feature=related

Haha nice, it's almost like a metal version of that part,
Lord Hypnos > Artifacts for sure. but Stand Ablaze is so retardedly good aswell.

 

[noahfor]

see, i think if anything is going to give lord hypnos a run for its money, it's going to be goliaths disarm their davids, although i still favor LH

 

[galvanized]

Lord Hypnos is awesome but cannot beat the emotion and unique feeling in Artifacts. Artifacts perfectly straddles sorrow and joy. Nostalgia and present moment. Also love how it alternates between a chill, relaxed feeling and aggression. Solo in Artifacts is better too.

Really tough comparison but Artifacts wins.

 

[DE4life]

Nice bump of an ancient thread

I prefer Artifacts (it also works much better live), but Lord Hypnos is great too.

 

[krofius]

I'm glad I hold the same opinion 9 years later. Lord Hypnos is definitely better. I usually skip to next when Artifacts comes on nowadays, I find it kind of boring.

 

[galvanized]

Lord Hypnos gets really progressive and interesting in the middle. Also has a lot of good riffs. Definitely a good listen and one my favorites. I rank it 9.5/10. If I were to randomly listen to TJR songs, I do agree Lord Hypnos is more novel and I would probably spin it more. As it is I usually listen to the whole album so I listen to all of them about the same amount — a few times a year at this point. But Artifacts’ melody is so classic and basically a part of me, I don’t really need to listen to it since I can just listen to it in my head. 10/10

 

[ThePhobiac]

Fact.