Heavy messages for heavy times! Fjørt return with a more diverse album. Some of the songs take new paths but the core mix of aggression and textural guitarwork the band mastered on the last albums remains.
Edit: After listening to this for several weeks I came to appreciate the deviations from the core sound even more! 85 --> 95

Rest in Peace, Brad Arnold.

Came for the intensity but stayed for the beautiful atmospheric parts! Surprising.

Over an hour of blissful insanity!

In my opinion this is their magnum opus. Of all their albums it's the most playful and fun one.

I love Home Alone and Come To Mexico and I love this, too.

To me this is a very front-heavy album. I enjoyed the first songs much more than the last ones.
Top-Sellers Banquet epitomizes this: The first two minutes are so damn amazing and then disappointment set in when I realized I would not get that riff back in its end.
Good album but clearly not in the same ballpark as Rooms of the House!

To me this belongs in the pantheon of perfect albums.

Ok, this is interesting. After three amazing albums I notice quite the shift. Less post rock and instead more prog? I need to listen to this a couple of times before I can even decide if I like that shift. Right now I it feels good but not amazing but it could be a grower.

Edit: 80 --> 95
Ok was partly wrong. The core feelings this evokes are still the same. Yes it is more dynamic, yes it is more diverse and has less wall-of-sound-moments but the atmosphere I so much love about this band is ... read more

A highly underrated album. Very frantic, sometimes even harsh but for sure with a lot of great songs. In my opinion much better and more interesting than the second album which was a disapointment for me. Matt Tong's drumwork is so great here.

I love the whole thing but I especially adore how I am reminded of Slint in different parts.

Another great album by one of Germany's finest!

For me this is a weird album.
The first three songs are a bit - how should I phrase it? Uninspired? Uneventful?
I don't really know.
But then suddenly from paragraph 4 onwards it becomes glorious. Opeth-worthy material for sure! And it stays strong until the end. Don't know what happened there but that's how I feel about it.

Steam Gardens is one of the best video game tracks ever recorded!
And with the new Nintendo Music App I can loop it forever. My life ist complete now.

Wonderful track.
(fyi this is based on a novel and in fact not a piece of racism. Robert Smith said he would have named the song 'Standing on the beach' had he anticipated the reactions.)

While High ist for sure a good song this hast one of the greatest b-sides ever recorded.
This Twilight Garden is a masterpiece!

To me the most impressive aspect of this wonderful project is how consistently high quality all of the tracks are while being so different in style and sound. It's the same as with the 'predecessor' Hellfire. Here are more ideas on one album than others have in their whole discografy!

This is just devastating. I really have to be in the right mood to be able to listen to this. But when you are ready for it not much comes close to that experience.

It is not as consistent as I wish it was and I still prefer the amazing Nearer My God but this is still very enjoyable. Hell 99 is a song of the year-contender and the rest mostly high quality. I like it a lot.

Found this back in the day when Mind Flood was on a cd INSIDE eclipsed-magazine.
Been a fan since.