Faust

While indisputably unnerving, I don't think this is an effort that's necessarily creative within it's approach; a distant ringing bell, drastically panned whispers, dissonant choirs, slow growling noises, etc. Although the execution is pretty great, it does feel like the first idea someone would come up with when trying to depict this sort of evil through music. Especially for an album that is entirely reliant on this soundscape for its 36-minute runtime, I think it could've been further ... read more