Rated
Unorthodox
Now this is more like it! Very good songs and better production. This
album
can still be boring if you listen to all at once (it's almost 60 min.)
Personally I think that this is one of the best death metal albums ever
together with Entombed's Clandestine, Carcass's Heartwork and their own
newest called Crimson(not counting
Death/Doom nor Black/Death like Hypocrisy and Dissection). Several song
like Enigma and Nocturnal are just classic tracks but the absolute best
one, and one of the best songs ever in any category in my opinion, is the
last track "When All is Said". It differs much from the others by it being
slower and doomier with piano and double-bass. The worst song here is
better then the best on their debut. Overall a killer album and one of my
favorites.
Rated
The Spectral Sorrows
Here's a twist for you. E. Of S. thought they'd brought death metal to
it's limit so they changed their style so they wouldn't get stuck in the
same place as many other bands do. It's still got some death metal
elements, but much it's much more heavy metal or trash now. It's very
intense and enjoyable in the same vain as Carcass Heartwork (the same type
of Wow feeling). It's Very well performed and produced and has very good
songs. It's difficult to describe the style but it's original and nice.
The only thing bad is the drums, just about the same drum beat through all
the album. The 6th song is a cover of Manowar's "Blood of my Enemies"
with the use of normal vocals and the 10th track is a song called
sacrificed which sounds much like Sisters of Mercy's "The Temple of Love"
in the same black rockish style. The last real son is the worst with
horrible vocals in a demo kind of way. The absolute last track is a great
outro with nice keyboards and a trumpet (probably keyboards that too)
It's very hard to pick out a favorite son because they sounds so much
alike that they easily drown in each other (just like Carcass Heartwork)
and that's the biggest problem about his album.
Rated 
Purgatory Afterglow
Much the same style as the Spectral Sorrows but a bit more in the vain of
the new Tiamat sound. More normal vocals and heavier but simpler songs.
A very good and original album. This one is however more uneven when it
comes to the material which actually makes it easier to listen to. There’s
a
couple of great songs like Twilight and Blood Colored, and a couple of not
as good songs that draws down the overall rating. Last on the album is 11
tracks, each 4 seconds of silence and that sucks when you play a CD
shuffle
on a multiple CD player.
Rated
Crimson
Every year has E. of S. released a new album and this year is no
exception.
This time they’ve done it deathier then on the last two albums and I
believe
that it’s their best sound yet. This album is among the best in about all
areas, material ,production, performance and so on, is great. The only
negative thing I can think of is the playing time... One song only but
it’s
40 min long!!! Now I like long songs but this is ridiculous. When Mortiis
or Wongraven makes long songs it’s no big deal because their music is
smooth and nice to relax to, so long songs only makes it better, but fast
and brutal death metal? No, it just gets hard to listen to since you have
to
be on your alert all through the album to actually notice all cool riffs.
when
I listened to it to review it I had to pause several times during the song
to
hear all riffs and parts well so I could give it a fair rating. Since the
album
has both faster deathier parts and slower more ambient ones and the riffs
seldomly is used more then one or two times so could they easily made it
into five or six songs that would have been better. This is still one of
the
best death metal releases ever and deserves this high grade.
Rated
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Infernal
The annual Edge of Sanity album was a bit of a disappointment I would say.
It's a broad album with several styles involved, so it's difficult to
categorise it. The first sone is a slower Death metal track in the
typical EofS vain. The second track has grim vocals and a much faster
riff, all with a black metal touch to it, but I would still like to call
it death metal. The songs with this style is the weakest on this album,
and I don't like them very much. The third song is slow, almost doomy with
normal vocals that we had a taste of on "Purgatory Afterglow". This is one
of my favourite tracks I might add, but I don't know what the title 15:36
means. Is it a reference to a chapter in the bible or what? Then the next
song is made of faster stuff with grim vocals and then deathier and then
doomier. And it goes on and on like this through the whole album. It's
like the guy's don't know what to play. I like the slower and doomier
stuff with normal vocals best (In the vain of Nightingale, it's said), but
much of the "classical" deathy material is great. All in all I rank
this as one of their weaker albums, far from the splendidcy of
"Unorthodox" and "Crimson"
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Unorthodox
Now this is more like it! Very good songs and better production. This
album
can still be boring if you listen to all at once (it's almost 60 min.)
Personally I think that this is one of the best death metal albums ever
together with Entombed's Clandestine, Carcass's Heartwork and their own
newest called Crimson(not counting
Death/Doom nor Black/Death like Hypocrisy and Dissection). Several song
like Enigma and Nocturnal are just classic tracks but the absolute best
one, and one of the best songs ever in any category in my opinion, is the
last track "When All is Said". It differs much from the others by it being
slower and doomier with piano and double-bass. The worst song here is
better then the best on their debut. Overall a killer album and one of my
favorites.
Rated
The Spectral Sorrows
Here's a twist for you. E. Of S. thought they'd brought death metal to
it's limit so they changed their style so they wouldn't get stuck in the
same place as many other bands do. It's still got some death metal
elements, but much it's much more heavy metal or trash now. It's very
intense and enjoyable in the same vain as Carcass Heartwork (the same type
of Wow feeling). It's Very well performed and produced and has very good
songs. It's difficult to describe the style but it's original and nice.
The only thing bad is the drums, just about the same drum beat through all
the album. The 6th song is a cover of Manowar's "Blood of my Enemies"
with the use of normal vocals and the 10th track is a song called
sacrificed which sounds much like Sisters of Mercy's "The Temple of Love"
in the same black rockish style. The last real son is the worst with
horrible vocals in a demo kind of way. The absolute last track is a great
outro with nice keyboards and a trumpet (probably keyboards that too)
It's very hard to pick out a favorite son because they sounds so much
alike that they easily drown in each other (just like Carcass Heartwork)
and that's the biggest problem about his album.
Rated
Purgatory Afterglow
Much the same style as the Spectral Sorrows but a bit more in the vain of
the new Tiamat sound. More normal vocals and heavier but simpler songs.
A very good and original album. This one is however more uneven when it
comes to the material which actually makes it easier to listen to. There’s
a
couple of great songs like Twilight and Blood Colored, and a couple of not
as good songs that draws down the overall rating. Last on the album is 11
tracks, each 4 seconds of silence and that sucks when you play a CD
shuffle
on a multiple CD player.
Rated
Crimson
Every year has E. of S. released a new album and this year is no
exception.
This time they’ve done it deathier then on the last two albums and I
believe
that it’s their best sound yet. This album is among the best in about all
areas, material ,production, performance and so on, is great. The only
negative thing I can think of is the playing time... One song only but
it’s
40 min long!!! Now I like long songs but this is ridiculous. When Mortiis
or Wongraven makes long songs it’s no big deal because their music is
smooth and nice to relax to, so long songs only makes it better, but fast
and brutal death metal? No, it just gets hard to listen to since you have
to
be on your alert all through the album to actually notice all cool riffs.
when
I listened to it to review it I had to pause several times during the song
to
hear all riffs and parts well so I could give it a fair rating. Since the
album
has both faster deathier parts and slower more ambient ones and the riffs
seldomly is used more then one or two times so could they easily made it
into five or six songs that would have been better. This is still one of
the
best death metal releases ever and deserves this high grade.
Rated
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Infernal
The annual Edge of Sanity album was a bit of a disappointment I would say.
It's a broad album with several styles involved, so it's difficult to
categorise it. The first sone is a slower Death metal track in the
typical EofS vain. The second track has grim vocals and a much faster
riff, all with a black metal touch to it, but I would still like to call
it death metal. The songs with this style is the weakest on this album,
and I don't like them very much. The third song is slow, almost doomy with
normal vocals that we had a taste of on "Purgatory Afterglow". This is one
of my favourite tracks I might add, but I don't know what the title 15:36
means. Is it a reference to a chapter in the bible or what? Then the next
song is made of faster stuff with grim vocals and then deathier and then
doomier. And it goes on and on like this through the whole album. It's
like the guy's don't know what to play. I like the slower and doomier
stuff with normal vocals best (In the vain of Nightingale, it's said), but
much of the "classical" deathy material is great. All in all I rank
this as one of their weaker albums, far from the splendidcy of
"Unorthodox" and "Crimson"
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The Spectral Sorrows
Here's a twist for you. E. Of S. thought they'd brought death metal to
it's limit so they changed their style so they wouldn't get stuck in the
same place as many other bands do. It's still got some death metal
elements, but much it's much more heavy metal or trash now. It's very
intense and enjoyable in the same vain as Carcass Heartwork (the same type
of Wow feeling). It's Very well performed and produced and has very good
songs. It's difficult to describe the style but it's original and nice.
The only thing bad is the drums, just about the same drum beat through all
the album. The 6th song is a cover of Manowar's "Blood of my Enemies"
with the use of normal vocals and the 10th track is a song called
sacrificed which sounds much like Sisters of Mercy's "The Temple of Love"
in the same black rockish style. The last real son is the worst with
horrible vocals in a demo kind of way. The absolute last track is a great
outro with nice keyboards and a trumpet (probably keyboards that too)
It's very hard to pick out a favorite son because they sounds so much
alike that they easily drown in each other (just like Carcass Heartwork)
and that's the biggest problem about his album.
Rated
Purgatory Afterglow
Much the same style as the Spectral Sorrows but a bit more in the vain of
the new Tiamat sound. More normal vocals and heavier but simpler songs.
A very good and original album. This one is however more uneven when it
comes to the material which actually makes it easier to listen to. There’s
a
couple of great songs like Twilight and Blood Colored, and a couple of not
as good songs that draws down the overall rating. Last on the album is 11
tracks, each 4 seconds of silence and that sucks when you play a CD
shuffle
on a multiple CD player.
Rated
Crimson
Every year has E. of S. released a new album and this year is no
exception.
This time they’ve done it deathier then on the last two albums and I
believe
that it’s their best sound yet. This album is among the best in about all
areas, material ,production, performance and so on, is great. The only
negative thing I can think of is the playing time... One song only but
it’s
40 min long!!! Now I like long songs but this is ridiculous. When Mortiis
or Wongraven makes long songs it’s no big deal because their music is
smooth and nice to relax to, so long songs only makes it better, but fast
and brutal death metal? No, it just gets hard to listen to since you have
to
be on your alert all through the album to actually notice all cool riffs.
when
I listened to it to review it I had to pause several times during the song
to
hear all riffs and parts well so I could give it a fair rating. Since the
album
has both faster deathier parts and slower more ambient ones and the riffs
seldomly is used more then one or two times so could they easily made it
into five or six songs that would have been better. This is still one of
the
best death metal releases ever and deserves this high grade.
Rated
Sample
Crimson.ra
Infernal
The annual Edge of Sanity album was a bit of a disappointment I would say.
It's a broad album with several styles involved, so it's difficult to
categorise it. The first sone is a slower Death metal track in the
typical EofS vain. The second track has grim vocals and a much faster
riff, all with a black metal touch to it, but I would still like to call
it death metal. The songs with this style is the weakest on this album,
and I don't like them very much. The third song is slow, almost doomy with
normal vocals that we had a taste of on "Purgatory Afterglow". This is one
of my favourite tracks I might add, but I don't know what the title 15:36
means. Is it a reference to a chapter in the bible or what? Then the next
song is made of faster stuff with grim vocals and then deathier and then
doomier. And it goes on and on like this through the whole album. It's
like the guy's don't know what to play. I like the slower and doomier
stuff with normal vocals best (In the vain of Nightingale, it's said), but
much of the "classical" deathy material is great. All in all I rank
this as one of their weaker albums, far from the splendidcy of
"Unorthodox" and "Crimson"
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Purgatory Afterglow
Much the same style as the Spectral Sorrows but a bit more in the vain of
the new Tiamat sound. More normal vocals and heavier but simpler songs.
A very good and original album. This one is however more uneven when it
comes to the material which actually makes it easier to listen to. There’s
a
couple of great songs like Twilight and Blood Colored, and a couple of not
as good songs that draws down the overall rating. Last on the album is 11
tracks, each 4 seconds of silence and that sucks when you play a CD
shuffle
on a multiple CD player.
Rated
Crimson
Every year has E. of S. released a new album and this year is no
exception.
This time they’ve done it deathier then on the last two albums and I
believe
that it’s their best sound yet. This album is among the best in about all
areas, material ,production, performance and so on, is great. The only
negative thing I can think of is the playing time... One song only but
it’s
40 min long!!! Now I like long songs but this is ridiculous. When Mortiis
or Wongraven makes long songs it’s no big deal because their music is
smooth and nice to relax to, so long songs only makes it better, but fast
and brutal death metal? No, it just gets hard to listen to since you have
to
be on your alert all through the album to actually notice all cool riffs.
when
I listened to it to review it I had to pause several times during the song
to
hear all riffs and parts well so I could give it a fair rating. Since the
album
has both faster deathier parts and slower more ambient ones and the riffs
seldomly is used more then one or two times so could they easily made it
into five or six songs that would have been better. This is still one of
the
best death metal releases ever and deserves this high grade.
Rated
Sample
Crimson.ra
Infernal
The annual Edge of Sanity album was a bit of a disappointment I would say.
It's a broad album with several styles involved, so it's difficult to
categorise it. The first sone is a slower Death metal track in the
typical EofS vain. The second track has grim vocals and a much faster
riff, all with a black metal touch to it, but I would still like to call
it death metal. The songs with this style is the weakest on this album,
and I don't like them very much. The third song is slow, almost doomy with
normal vocals that we had a taste of on "Purgatory Afterglow". This is one
of my favourite tracks I might add, but I don't know what the title 15:36
means. Is it a reference to a chapter in the bible or what? Then the next
song is made of faster stuff with grim vocals and then deathier and then
doomier. And it goes on and on like this through the whole album. It's
like the guy's don't know what to play. I like the slower and doomier
stuff with normal vocals best (In the vain of Nightingale, it's said), but
much of the "classical" deathy material is great. All in all I rank
this as one of their weaker albums, far from the splendidcy of
"Unorthodox" and "Crimson"
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Much the same style as the Spectral Sorrows but a bit more in the vain of
the new Tiamat sound. More normal vocals and heavier but simpler songs.
A very good and original album. This one is however more uneven when it
comes to the material which actually makes it easier to listen to. There’s
a
couple of great songs like Twilight and Blood Colored, and a couple of not
as good songs that draws down the overall rating. Last on the album is 11
tracks, each 4 seconds of silence and that sucks when you play a CD
shuffle
on a multiple CD player.
Rated
Crimson
Every year has E. of S. released a new album and this year is no
exception.
This time they’ve done it deathier then on the last two albums and I
believe
that it’s their best sound yet. This album is among the best in about all
areas, material ,production, performance and so on, is great. The only
negative thing I can think of is the playing time... One song only but
it’s
40 min long!!! Now I like long songs but this is ridiculous. When Mortiis
or Wongraven makes long songs it’s no big deal because their music is
smooth and nice to relax to, so long songs only makes it better, but fast
and brutal death metal? No, it just gets hard to listen to since you have
to
be on your alert all through the album to actually notice all cool riffs.
when
I listened to it to review it I had to pause several times during the song
to
hear all riffs and parts well so I could give it a fair rating. Since the
album
has both faster deathier parts and slower more ambient ones and the riffs
seldomly is used more then one or two times so could they easily made it
into five or six songs that would have been better. This is still one of
the
best death metal releases ever and deserves this high grade.
Rated
Sample
Crimson.ra
Infernal
The annual Edge of Sanity album was a bit of a disappointment I would say.
It's a broad album with several styles involved, so it's difficult to
categorise it. The first sone is a slower Death metal track in the
typical EofS vain. The second track has grim vocals and a much faster
riff, all with a black metal touch to it, but I would still like to call
it death metal. The songs with this style is the weakest on this album,
and I don't like them very much. The third song is slow, almost doomy with
normal vocals that we had a taste of on "Purgatory Afterglow". This is one
of my favourite tracks I might add, but I don't know what the title 15:36
means. Is it a reference to a chapter in the bible or what? Then the next
song is made of faster stuff with grim vocals and then deathier and then
doomier. And it goes on and on like this through the whole album. It's
like the guy's don't know what to play. I like the slower and doomier
stuff with normal vocals best (In the vain of Nightingale, it's said), but
much of the "classical" deathy material is great. All in all I rank
this as one of their weaker albums, far from the splendidcy of
"Unorthodox" and "Crimson"
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Crimson
Every year has E. of S. released a new album and this year is no
exception.
This time they’ve done it deathier then on the last two albums and I
believe
that it’s their best sound yet. This album is among the best in about all
areas, material ,production, performance and so on, is great. The only
negative thing I can think of is the playing time... One song only but
it’s
40 min long!!! Now I like long songs but this is ridiculous. When Mortiis
or Wongraven makes long songs it’s no big deal because their music is
smooth and nice to relax to, so long songs only makes it better, but fast
and brutal death metal? No, it just gets hard to listen to since you have
to
be on your alert all through the album to actually notice all cool riffs.
when
I listened to it to review it I had to pause several times during the song
to
hear all riffs and parts well so I could give it a fair rating. Since the
album
has both faster deathier parts and slower more ambient ones and the riffs
seldomly is used more then one or two times so could they easily made it
into five or six songs that would have been better. This is still one of
the
best death metal releases ever and deserves this high grade.
Rated
Sample
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Infernal
The annual Edge of Sanity album was a bit of a disappointment I would say.
It's a broad album with several styles involved, so it's difficult to
categorise it. The first sone is a slower Death metal track in the
typical EofS vain. The second track has grim vocals and a much faster
riff, all with a black metal touch to it, but I would still like to call
it death metal. The songs with this style is the weakest on this album,
and I don't like them very much. The third song is slow, almost doomy with
normal vocals that we had a taste of on "Purgatory Afterglow". This is one
of my favourite tracks I might add, but I don't know what the title 15:36
means. Is it a reference to a chapter in the bible or what? Then the next
song is made of faster stuff with grim vocals and then deathier and then
doomier. And it goes on and on like this through the whole album. It's
like the guy's don't know what to play. I like the slower and doomier
stuff with normal vocals best (In the vain of Nightingale, it's said), but
much of the "classical" deathy material is great. All in all I rank
this as one of their weaker albums, far from the splendidcy of
"Unorthodox" and "Crimson"
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Infernal
The annual Edge of Sanity album was a bit of a disappointment I would say.
It's a broad album with several styles involved, so it's difficult to
categorise it. The first sone is a slower Death metal track in the
typical EofS vain. The second track has grim vocals and a much faster
riff, all with a black metal touch to it, but I would still like to call
it death metal. The songs with this style is the weakest on this album,
and I don't like them very much. The third song is slow, almost doomy with
normal vocals that we had a taste of on "Purgatory Afterglow". This is one
of my favourite tracks I might add, but I don't know what the title 15:36
means. Is it a reference to a chapter in the bible or what? Then the next
song is made of faster stuff with grim vocals and then deathier and then
doomier. And it goes on and on like this through the whole album. It's
like the guy's don't know what to play. I like the slower and doomier
stuff with normal vocals best (In the vain of Nightingale, it's said), but
much of the "classical" deathy material is great. All in all I rank
this as one of their weaker albums, far from the splendidcy of
"Unorthodox" and "Crimson"
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Infernal
The annual Edge of Sanity album was a bit of a disappointment I would say.
It's a broad album with several styles involved, so it's difficult to
categorise it. The first sone is a slower Death metal track in the
typical EofS vain. The second track has grim vocals and a much faster
riff, all with a black metal touch to it, but I would still like to call
it death metal. The songs with this style is the weakest on this album,
and I don't like them very much. The third song is slow, almost doomy with
normal vocals that we had a taste of on "Purgatory Afterglow". This is one
of my favourite tracks I might add, but I don't know what the title 15:36
means. Is it a reference to a chapter in the bible or what? Then the next
song is made of faster stuff with grim vocals and then deathier and then
doomier. And it goes on and on like this through the whole album. It's
like the guy's don't know what to play. I like the slower and doomier
stuff with normal vocals best (In the vain of Nightingale, it's said), but
much of the "classical" deathy material is great. All in all I rank
this as one of their weaker albums, far from the splendidcy of
"Unorthodox" and "Crimson"
Rated
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