[quality thread] woods of belial "deimos xiii" elation & appreciation station

[einride]

so i almost forgot i had this album for a while. it is AMAZING though. i love finns and their nihilistic grey albums. you know how narrative songwriting works at its very best? when you're listening to a song and you're thinking "oh man. this part is great, this must be the absolute climax of the song" and then it just keeps going and segues into another, even better part, that builds upon the other completely effortlessly -- this album is like that all the time.

i know some of you guys already own this and good on you! i was thinking maybe april 17th could be the official "listen to this album again! honestly!" day from now on? for the rest of y'all unlucky fellows, linkytime usa:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/587724041bd67c31/

 

[Ellestin]

saving this from oblivion. reviewed this 5 years ago and gave it a 7/20. But I don't remember anything about it and my taste back then was, let's say underdeveloped. Now it's worse. So I'll try again now, and next year, etc.

 

[M.Lehto]

Now, leave this alone, relax and pick some Nick Drake album...

 

[Reign in Acai]

I wiped the dust off this album this morning. More times than not, when you attempt to create an urban atmosphere, while drowning out all the prominent features that gives black metal that naturally feral vibe, you fail about as miserably as Moose trying to get to second base. However friends, with Woods of Belial this is not the case. Aside from Pervertum II which simply trods along without taking you anywhere, this album is a crowning achievement in industrial bm. Hell it's the only album in my collection that can remotely carry this description.

Interestingly, I had no idea that two of the blokes from Moonsorrow were behind this. Heh. I'm curious to hear their best of, though I reckon that that's an impossibility.

 

[einride]

I wiped the dust off this album this morning. More times than not, when you attempt to create an urban atmosphere, while drowning out all the prominent features that gives black metal that naturally feral vibe, you fail about as miserably as Moose trying to get to second base. However friends, with Woods of Belial this is not the case. Aside from Pervertum II which simply trods along without taking you anywhere, this album is a crowning achievement in industrial bm. Hell it's the only album in my collection that can remotely carry this description.

Interestingly, I had no idea that two of the blokes from Moonsorrow were behind this. Heh. I'm curious to hear their best of, though I reckon that that's an impossibility.

re: "industrial black metal" (i tend to think of woods of belial as more of a doom thing, but really it's neither): have you heard: mysticum: in the streams of inferno? A+++ WOULD LISTEN AGAIN. get it.