jliby

This sounds exactly like something that would be playing in my crypt as I rise from a slumber of a short millennium. For that, I think it lives up to its symphonic black metal mantle. Though it did get a little old to me after a while, making a quick nap of a few centuries enticing.

Overall though, I did enjoy the opening to the album. Flesh Throne and Eternally Within Us have a delightful blend of symphonic elements and the trademark black metal shrieks that build such an oppressive, and at ... read more

Just sheer, delicious instrumental acrobatics. It's only an EP and yet it still felt short and had me wanting more. The production felt a bit mushed to me, but still so many great elements popped out to me from the whiplash of groove changes in Binocularize which hooked me immediately, to the mix of heavy riffs and sick synth solo in Ernie Ball Worship, to the ambient-esque atmospherics of Foglier and the straight forward riffage of Pushing Rope. This EP feels like the beginning of a world ... read more

The first thing that stood out to me about this record, and that persisted throughout my listen, was the guitar work. The guitar solo on The Ghostship Diaries is a fantastic blend of shredding and soulful, melodic riffs. The soulful, emotional elements are just further exemplified through Our Place Among The Stars which, if I'm being honest, I found to be a bit of a drag of a song until the guitar showed up, then I was hooked again.

Still, the guitars I don't think were enough to ... read more

Something about this reminds me, fondly, of times long past that I can only revisit in memories, can only enjoy soaked in nostalgia. Cool summer nights riding around town with friends, no destination in mind, music like this playing and drifting out the hand-cranked windows of our car. I don't know what it is - perhaps it's how effortlessly the group moves between the peaks of the album, their massive blankets of sounds, and their softer more somber moments, all overlaid by vocals ... read more