Air Not Meant for Us

Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
2023 Ratings: #7 / 757
User Score
Based on 352 ratings
2023 Rank: #344
Liked by 60 people
April 28, 2023 / Release Date
LP / Format
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Distorted Sound
This is an album that will capture your heart and take you on a journey where a multitude of emotions are experienced. And upon its closure, you’ll be striving to hear it all again.
95
Metal Injection

Air Not Meant For Us is a masterpiece of modern melodic death metal, plain and simple.

85
Blabbermouth.net
"Air Not Meant For Us" is a bold leap forward, and a more vivid and detailed elucidation of the Connecticut crew's musical vision.
80
Angry Metal Guy

Air Not Meant for Us is one of the most beautiful things I’ve heard this year, and it deepens and strengthens Fires’ yearning, invigorating foundation.

aotyscure
30

The critics reviews in this album are so misleading. No way you give 100s and 90s to this garbage.

ChazzaMaate
72

Definitely a bit of a gimmicky combination of genres, especially when the mixing and instrumentals are decent at best.

I don't know really, it felt like it lacked any punch due to the mixing. It might've been that or the extremely distorted bass tones. It's creative and tries to mix two quite different sounds which I can commend, but beyond that, it feels very hollow. Especially compared to projects from similar genres.

pinio985
70

Some reallyyyy good melo-death, the air may not be meant for us, but i'm grateful this album is!

semiperson
79

AAAAHHH this is great!
A beautiful lush death metal album, with these gorgeous rippling keys on top of everything. Love it. My favorite track has to be the instrumental Adrift, Beneath the Listless Waves, which is also the shortest song here at only six minutes, followed by the very melodic and dynamic Psalm of the Merciless. I will say the closer is a bit much for me, including some "very deep" words by Christopher Hitchens that nonetheless somewhat tie into the themes of death from ... read more

uranium54321
72

(Originally this was a comment in the replies of aotyscure’s review but i think this deserves to be fleshed out into its own thing.)
There are a number of things I really like about this album. They did a good job of evenly balancing the melodeath/doom genre combination, incorporating the piano, and especially creating an atmosphere. However, I have 2 major problems here that hold me back from enjoying it as much as a lot of other people here.
Firstly, I think the vocals are easily the ... read more

barrykeys4
81

Amazing production, great songwriting. Unfortunately a majority of the songs struggled to land and finish and left some endings feeling abrupt and inorganic.

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