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**Frownland** · 03-08-2016, 02:02 PM

Daydream Society - Fervor

1. Mysteries from a Newly Repaired Heart

What a gay song title. Some minimal guitar and ambience gets interrupted by a throbbing synthesizer. I guess that's a metaphor for your penis or something. Some dreamy synths come in and they really improve the track, which was kind of flat up until this point where it got a little more dense. After a while it gets to be a bit tired and wanders around for a while. This could have easily been a three minute track. 3/10

2. Daring to Deceive You

Drony distorted guitars (? could be synths) open up and there's a little lead that comes over it. I'd like the lead a bit more if you added more layers to it, it seems a little one dimensional with the single wahhing synth over it. The transition of the themes work really well and saves the track imo. The oscillating outro is really cool. 7/10

3. Fate or Fiction Pt. 1: Light Pillars

The midi instruments on this track are really plastic and sterile, and not in a good way. Once you get past the build up, it's not so bad once the sounds are all layered and dense, but that build up just takes too long. Take a chance and drop the listener into the full product that transitions into something else instead of relying on the buildup to make up your whole song. That'd make it a lot better imo. 4/10

4. Fervor

Great textures in the beginning that lead to a big crescendo like all the other songs. Since I like these metallic, crystally sounds quite a bit, I don't mind the long buildup on this one. The guitar melody outro is really nice, too. Best track on the record as far as I'm concerned. 8/10

5. Waiting Game

Some rougher, crushed synthesizers to kick things off. Finally, something a little more exciting (well, so far), which is what this album needs at this point. You'll never guess, guys, this song is a big crescendo that includes filtered synths and a distorted guitar melody. And a drony synth outro that's quite beautiful. I'll go with 6/10 for this one. It would be higher if you didn't milk that structure for the other part of the album.

6. Fate or Fiction Pt. 2: Snow Drifts

This one starts off with some nice layers. A little heavier and bends into some post rock oriented guitar that's pretty great. The song carries on like this, running through some variations occasionally. There was a really cool rumbling bass that I was going to comment on, but it turned out to be me hearing a plane outside. 7/10

7. Level-Headed

Hilarious song title. Warbly synth intro and some a pulsing rhymth kicks off the song. That higher pitch lead is pretty cheesy, the darker synth at the end carries it nicely though. What a surprise, another drony outro. 5/10

8. Agony and Atrophy

Nice intro, and the lead that runs over it for the bulk of the song is exciting and full of changeups. This song has a lot of cool and diverse layers, makes it one of the standouts on the album. 8/10

9. Fate or Fiction Pt. 3: The Archeologist

Yup. Another song. Pleasant sounds, but not much to take note of. 4/10

10. The Best Dream of Your Life

The drone and the overtones on this intros are really nice. The lead melody is, just there I guess, but the song opens up to textures that are just as nice as the synths that opened the song. Solid and gorgeous ending, and really the only track that made me think of love. 7/10

Final Verdict: ffs dude, try out some different structures, because this album comes off as really cookie cutter cutter and lazy in that aspect. I think that a lot of these tracks work well on their own, but in the context of the album it's very repetitive. There are definitely some really good moments like on Agony and Atrophy, the title track, and the closer, and there are a lot of awesome textures. On the other hand, there are just as many moments where I'm waiting for the song to end and uninspired textures. The bulk of the album is simply down the middle for me, nothing awful, but nothing too great either. I'll give it a 2/10 or as the system puts it, shit.

YorkeDaddy · 03-08-2016, 02:41 PM

Only really shocked by your thoughts on The Archeologist since its vibe is so unique to me

Machine · 03-08-2016, 08:27 PM

Mount Gaash

Track 1 Starting things off with backwards guitar riffs galore. There's some spooky dark ambiance in the back lots of whispered vocals, the occasional cymbal, and other various noises. Not gonna lie the vocals are pretty unnerving. The guitar riff going throughout is pretty magnificent. Everything is so muffled , I feel like I'm listening to a summoning behind a door or something and there a bunch of people whispering in masks around me. I'm picking up some flute coming in now? The guitars seem to keep getting more and more lost in a haze of reverb while the chattering and other **** takes over, totally weird vibes. This is honestly a lot more strange than I thought it would be, that track was genuinely upsetting at certain moments, good ****.

Track 2 Love how ambient a lot of this is so far. It also feels insanely deconstructed, like taking individual parts and make them more important during certain parts. The lo-fi drums put over these drowning guitars just feels ****ing immense, almost industrial sounding. Loving the ominous feel this one is producing so far, very nightmarish. Thought the transition from the droning guitars to this muffled sparse guitar was very well done. Everything about this one has felt downright lonely so far, everything feels away from everything else, like each different variable of this song was told specifically to not play until it was alone, it's dark and claustrophobic. The whole time there's just this sluggishly moving drum part. This sort of feels like an even further removed from the norm Todesstoss, and I love it, it's freakish. Not sure if those are backwards cymbals in the back or what is making all the screeching, but it ain't bad so I won't complain. My only real complaint is how muddy the mix can get sometimes, not in how lo-fi and isolated it can feel, but in how pushed together some of the parts feel when they're all going at the same time. The little glistening keyboard that came in for a few seconds was pretty nice I must say. Is it just me or does the drum feel like it's getting buried deeper into the mix as the song goes on? Over all this was a damn good track, it could have probably benefited from some slight editing as it is quite long and can get a little boring at certain more drawn out points, but overall don't have too many complaints; the feel of the track was consistently unnerving, I appreciate some music that can get me to feel like that.

Track 3 Now onto the two shortest tracks to give me a bit of a break from the onslaught of long ass tracks on the this album. This one starts with some ambient synths that I can for sure get behind. Got some jazzy drumming and the ominous guitar chords backing this one up. Really liked that one, sparse, ambient, nice tone to it.

Track 4 Just wind samples in the intro of this, and some electronic buzzing near the beginning. Alright could've used some more variety for those first two minutes, but now we're into the meat of the song. Tribal drumming over a lo-fi black metal riff complete with some dirty screaming. The tribal drumming isn't exactly meshing as well I want to it to, it just never feels quite right and a little bit off. The mix feels a little bit muddy, but that might be on purpose, and I'm glad the drumming faded out and I'm left with just the guitar and vocals as I found them a little bit unnecessary and/or distracting.

Track 5 This one ought to be a doozy, 36 minutes of avant lo-fi black metal. Weirdly dark ambient, sorta reminiscent of some dronier parts of that new Roly Porter album. Very spacey, yeah I'd definitely call this outer space music, so desolate and lonely, sad even. The synths have this sharp tone that has a decay that really give off this other-worldly or even other-dimensional vibe, like time is warping around each note bending to slow down, speed up or even disintegrate at a moments notice, it's really trippy. The bassline just came in and it has a slithering quality to it that is unique to this song and a few select others I've heard in my lifetime. The song is in full force now, I honestly don't even know how to describe this well beyond hellish, the wind like noise over the free form drums and tremolo guitar; just ****ing hellish. Those vocals are TERRIFYING and there is something apocalyptic about the way that synth keeps moving up and down in microtones, really creeps me out. Loving the string synths on this, keep the feeling of this grand procession of the apocalypse alive through all of the noisy chaos. Liking the switch to the motorik beat, although I will say that it feels messy over some of the other drums that come in here and there, however that may be intentional idk. The vocals are way up in the front of the mix while everything else sort of hangs in the back disintegrating and mutating into different forms entirely every five seconds. THAT'S A MOTHER****ING PIANO WOAH YES PLEASE MORE OF THIS YES! Loren are you tuning that in post-production? This is an amazing little excursion and is exactly what the song needed honestly, just when it was becoming a little mind-numbing it provides a perfect little 30 second shift there to keep you actively listening, genius placement honestly. Loving the crashing staccato percussion, reminds me of some early Swans. Alright veering into some blackened noisekraut territory? One thing I gotta give to this song and this album in general is I've never heard anything quite like it, I've heard certain elements of it in other bands, but never a product like this. Another one of these incredibly sparse, slow moving guitar solos that Mondo can't seem to get enough of; not really complaining either like I said earlier they have a loneliness about them that I really love. My biggest problems with this album occur when everything happens at once because of the reverb laden production it can feel almost too washed out and muffled at times when it should be more hard-hitting it ends up feeling compressed, not really a critique on the music or composition but just the way some of the production is layed out. Liking the backwards strings(?) right here, gives a nice bookend to the intra-dimensional synths at the beginning of the track. Oh I see everything is backwards, I probably should have noticed that before. Love the synths being used, they're bright but sharpened. Superb track, probably the best I've heard yet.

Track 6 Wind samples straight into a killer atmo bm riff, very Paysage of you Mondo, I like it. Some sort of ambient airplane sounding synth in the background that adds to the atmosphere nicely, I like that it's slowly but surely overtaking the main riff and meshing it all together into this noisy hell set. I know that isn't very consistent with my critique earlier, but here I really like it and I think it benefits in tone instead of hindering it. The vocals keep getting more and more cavernous along with the beat into this one big droning noise piece with barely discernible drumming, it's slow moving, but completely effective. I think people forget how easily a black metal guitar tone can manipulated into pure noise that can really spice up a track and add some flames to the hellscape, which by the way is the best way to describe this song an absolute hellscape. This is more or less turning into an ambient noise piece, a very interesting ambient noise piece might I add; it has these glistening synths that sound like wind chimes and breathy wind like screams and guitars that take up a majority of the mix. That was a wonderful change in pace from the rest of the album, more subdued, more willing to rest on one idea and not being quite as schizophrenic, not that I minded that quality at all, in fact it's one of my favorite things about the album, just good to hear some variation so the form never gets stale.

Track 7 Starts right away with what might be the saddest black metal riff I've ever heard, oh wait a train is coming in and there are some synths. Aw I was hoping it'd rest a little more on just the riff itself, but that's okay. Lots of rumbling noise in the background and that train once again. Absolutely love the little electronic hisses here and there they're quite pretty and add this sort of bruised charm to the whole thing. It all disintegrated into this dark ambient piece pretty quickly, but it has this motorik beat somewhere in the left channel which provides some forward motion to the sci-fi synths and the wind noise. Yeah loving the synths in the section they have that other-worldly feel again. Never heard ambient wind noise with black metal drumming and screaming, it's quite different. There's this little riff, not sure weather it's on a synth or guitar, that is quite pretty somewhere towards the end of this one. This one was good, had a few times here and there where I though something more should happen, but overall I'm pleased.

Track 8 Ambient noise, oh ambient noise how calming you are to what I'm anticipating is the final wave of a long storm. There's another one of those detuning synths that's really freaking me out and making me very uncomfortable. The title really fits "Mount Gaash: Descent" it feels like whatever spawned in earlier and brought about the apocalypse has done it's damage and is now dragging itself and it's army back into the the fiery depths below. Alright so this song is more of a Flood IV type deal where the storm has passed and this is what we're left with. It's stupefying in its quiet cadence of destruction, but also terrifying in that it is the end, not only of this album, but as well as the world that it created and destroyed. The drums really adds well to the whole atmosphere I've been imagining in my head, one final hurrah as they descend into the abyss and all the meanwhile the sun rises in the background. Great ****ing ending to a great album.

Final Verdict: **** man that was really good, I had some minor complaints, but wow that was a great album, kudos.

8/10

Mondo Bungle · 03-08-2016, 10:17 PM

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Machine+ - Sketch My Apocalypse

Machine joined the forum some time ago and brought along a real nice musical project. It is completely unique in it's contrast of dynamics and overall sound, some lo-fi-in-a-good-way Indie drone folk centered around him and his guitar.

This was his first full length album and no doubt it establishes that unique sound I described very quickly. I'm sure machine can tell you more than I, but this is surely a project very special to it's Creator. It is personal, soul crushing, and all around a great showcase of emotions and music.

The opener is quick to get the drones going. Machine has since released another full length which is seen as an improvement in all aspects, but this album here shows the roots. The quality is nowhere near poor but does leave a lot to be desired. Twangs from the guitar and moments of incredibly high pitched piercing feedback are around, it doesn't detract from the music but gives it a "smaller" feeling then I might like. That's saying something though, even after it is still quite huge. The opener displays these very thick drones from the guitar and sparse vocals. Some really nice and subtle melodies can be found to, it's not just electric guitar nonsense, no way. Improv looks to play a large role but you can yell he had an idea for structure here.

The second track is the "heart" of the album and maybe the project entirely. Part drone colossus part Indie folk ballad, one hundred percent catharsis. There is more squealing feedback, but when they subside, something beautiful is left. There are certain sounds, textures and feelings I specifically enjoy in drone music, and this has it in abundance. It is a warm and inviting, thick, fuzzy blanket in the wintertime, rather than mechanical and sterile harshness. In all honesty this bleeding me away on my first listen. The guitar is still on display and Machine really has some drone chops. But we're treated with some more amazing melodies and riffs amidst the reverberations. This track dissolves into a catchy folk tune with ease, and back to the drone. The style here is really unique as I said before, and does a good job laying any sort of ground work.

The last two tracks feature a more diverse array of sounds to close things off. I can't make it all out but it's a psychedelic mish mash of clanky percussion and other nice stuff. The final track here is another guitar showcase, but rather than the massive drone from before, this is a soft yet very bizarre (and proficient) little outro. I don't know if this was written or improvised but I think its incredible either way.

It would've surely benefited from better production in terms of the sound and delivery, but the music here is something special, something made with a machine's love. Great things are definitely to come and I really believe he could be an amazingly renowned Singer songwriter with the niche he's developing.

7.5/10

Machine · 03-09-2016, 08:50 AM

Thanks for the review Mondo I thought it was really amazing it basically points out everything I like about the album and everything I dislike. One thing just to add is the third track is just a guitar and a delay pedal, I just used it as a loop station and used different objects lying around my room to get the percussion sounds.

Mondo Bungle · 03-11-2016, 06:30 PM

Would anyone be down to review this Titan https://mathscience.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelicious

It's amazing tbh

Tristan_Geoff · 03-11-2016, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

Would anyone be down to review this Titan https://mathscience.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelicious

It's amazing tbh

I'm still planning on it. I won't let ya down.

Just expect it to take a couple weeks fpr me to get around to it. I've gpt a lot of stuff I need to listen to first.

Plainview · 03-12-2016, 04:45 PM

Anyone want to hear an early preview of a project and give me some thoughts/feedback? Lemme know if so, cheeeeeeeers.

Mondo Bungle · 04-06-2016, 06:31 PM

where the **** are my reviews

YorkeDaddy · 04-07-2016, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

where the **** are my reviews

I'll hit you up sooner or later

I have an album dropping May 6th so that'll be time for us to get some swapping goin on

03-08-2016, 02:02 PM	#221 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Daydream Society - Fervor 1. Mysteries from a Newly Repaired Heart What a gay song title. Some minimal guitar and ambience gets interrupted by a throbbing synthesizer. I guess that's a metaphor for your penis or something. Some dreamy synths come in and they really improve the track, which was kind of flat up until this point where it got a little more dense. After a while it gets to be a bit tired and wanders around for a while. This could have easily been a three minute track. 3/10 2. Daring to Deceive You Drony distorted guitars (? could be synths) open up and there's a little lead that comes over it. I'd like the lead a bit more if you added more layers to it, it seems a little one dimensional with the single wahhing synth over it. The transition of the themes work really well and saves the track imo. The oscillating outro is really cool. 7/10 3. Fate or Fiction Pt. 1: Light Pillars The midi instruments on this track are really plastic and sterile, and not in a good way. Once you get past the build up, it's not so bad once the sounds are all layered and dense, but that build up just takes too long. Take a chance and drop the listener into the full product that transitions into something else instead of relying on the buildup to make up your whole song. That'd make it a lot better imo. 4/10 4. Fervor Great textures in the beginning that lead to a big crescendo like all the other songs. Since I like these metallic, crystally sounds quite a bit, I don't mind the long buildup on this one. The guitar melody outro is really nice, too. Best track on the record as far as I'm concerned. 8/10 5. Waiting Game Some rougher, crushed synthesizers to kick things off. Finally, something a little more exciting (well, so far), which is what this album needs at this point. You'll never guess, guys, this song is a big crescendo that includes filtered synths and a distorted guitar melody. And a drony synth outro that's quite beautiful. I'll go with 6/10 for this one. It would be higher if you didn't milk that structure for the other part of the album. 6. Fate or Fiction Pt. 2: Snow Drifts This one starts off with some nice layers. A little heavier and bends into some post rock oriented guitar that's pretty great. The song carries on like this, running through some variations occasionally. There was a really cool rumbling bass that I was going to comment on, but it turned out to be me hearing a plane outside. 7/10 7. Level-Headed Hilarious song title. Warbly synth intro and some a pulsing rhymth kicks off the song. That higher pitch lead is pretty cheesy, the darker synth at the end carries it nicely though. What a surprise, another drony outro. 5/10 8. Agony and Atrophy Nice intro, and the lead that runs over it for the bulk of the song is exciting and full of changeups. This song has a lot of cool and diverse layers, makes it one of the standouts on the album. 8/10 9. Fate or Fiction Pt. 3: The Archeologist Yup. Another song. Pleasant sounds, but not much to take note of. 4/10 10. The Best Dream of Your Life The drone and the overtones on this intros are really nice. The lead melody is, just there I guess, but the song opens up to textures that are just as nice as the synths that opened the song. Solid and gorgeous ending, and really the only track that made me think of love. 7/10 Final Verdict: ffs dude, try out some different structures, because this album comes off as really cookie cutter cutter and lazy in that aspect. I think that a lot of these tracks work well on their own, but in the context of the album it's very repetitive. There are definitely some really good moments like on Agony and Atrophy, the title track, and the closer, and there are a lot of awesome textures. On the other hand, there are just as many moments where I'm waiting for the song to end and uninspired textures. The bulk of the album is simply down the middle for me, nothing awful, but nothing too great either. I'll give it a 2/10 or as the system puts it, shit. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

03-08-2016, 08:27 PM	#223 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	Mount Gaash Track 1 Starting things off with backwards guitar riffs galore. There's some spooky dark ambiance in the back lots of whispered vocals, the occasional cymbal, and other various noises. Not gonna lie the vocals are pretty unnerving. The guitar riff going throughout is pretty magnificent. Everything is so muffled , I feel like I'm listening to a summoning behind a door or something and there a bunch of people whispering in masks around me. I'm picking up some flute coming in now? The guitars seem to keep getting more and more lost in a haze of reverb while the chattering and other ** takes over, totally weird vibes. This is honestly a lot more strange than I thought it would be, that track was genuinely upsetting at certain moments, good . Track 2 Love how ambient a lot of this is so far. It also feels insanely deconstructed, like taking individual parts and make them more important during certain parts. The lo-fi drums put over these drowning guitars just feels ing immense, almost industrial sounding. Loving the ominous feel this one is producing so far, very nightmarish. Thought the transition from the droning guitars to this muffled sparse guitar was very well done. Everything about this one has felt downright lonely so far, everything feels away from everything else, like each different variable of this song was told specifically to not play until it was alone, it's dark and claustrophobic. The whole time there's just this sluggishly moving drum part. This sort of feels like an even further removed from the norm Todesstoss, and I love it, it's freakish. Not sure if those are backwards cymbals in the back or what is making all the screeching, but it ain't bad so I won't complain. My only real complaint is how muddy the mix can get sometimes, not in how lo-fi and isolated it can feel, but in how pushed together some of the parts feel when they're all going at the same time. The little glistening keyboard that came in for a few seconds was pretty nice I must say. Is it just me or does the drum feel like it's getting buried deeper into the mix as the song goes on? Over all this was a damn good track, it could have probably benefited from some slight editing as it is quite long and can get a little boring at certain more drawn out points, but overall don't have too many complaints; the feel of the track was consistently unnerving, I appreciate some music that can get me to feel like that. Track 3 Now onto the two shortest tracks to give me a bit of a break from the onslaught of long ass tracks on the this album. This one starts with some ambient synths that I can for sure get behind. Got some jazzy drumming and the ominous guitar chords backing this one up. Really liked that one, sparse, ambient, nice tone to it. Track 4 Just wind samples in the intro of this, and some electronic buzzing near the beginning. Alright could've used some more variety for those first two minutes, but now we're into the meat of the song. Tribal drumming over a lo-fi black metal riff complete with some dirty screaming. The tribal drumming isn't exactly meshing as well I want to it to, it just never feels quite right and a little bit off. The mix feels a little bit muddy, but that might be on purpose, and I'm glad the drumming faded out and I'm left with just the guitar and vocals as I found them a little bit unnecessary and/or distracting. Track 5 This one ought to be a doozy, 36 minutes of avant lo-fi black metal. Weirdly dark ambient, sorta reminiscent of some dronier parts of that new Roly Porter album. Very spacey, yeah I'd definitely call this outer space music, so desolate and lonely, sad even. The synths have this sharp tone that has a decay that really give off this other-worldly or even other-dimensional vibe, like time is warping around each note bending to slow down, speed up or even disintegrate at a moments notice, it's really trippy. The bassline just came in and it has a slithering quality to it that is unique to this song and a few select others I've heard in my lifetime. The song is in full force now, I honestly don't even know how to describe this well beyond hellish, the wind like noise over the free form drums and tremolo guitar; just ing hellish. Those vocals are TERRIFYING and there is something apocalyptic about the way that synth keeps moving up and down in microtones, really creeps me out. Loving the string synths on this, keep the feeling of this grand procession of the apocalypse alive through all of the noisy chaos. Liking the switch to the motorik beat, although I will say that it feels messy over some of the other drums that come in here and there, however that may be intentional idk. The vocals are way up in the front of the mix while everything else sort of hangs in the back disintegrating and mutating into different forms entirely every five seconds. THAT'S A MOTHERING PIANO WOAH YES PLEASE MORE OF THIS YES! Loren are you tuning that in post-production? This is an amazing little excursion and is exactly what the song needed honestly, just when it was becoming a little mind-numbing it provides a perfect little 30 second shift there to keep you actively listening, genius placement honestly. Loving the crashing staccato percussion, reminds me of some early Swans. Alright veering into some blackened noisekraut territory? One thing I gotta give to this song and this album in general is I've never heard anything quite like it, I've heard certain elements of it in other bands, but never a product like this. Another one of these incredibly sparse, slow moving guitar solos that Mondo can't seem to get enough of; not really complaining either like I said earlier they have a loneliness about them that I really love. My biggest problems with this album occur when everything happens at once because of the reverb laden production it can feel almost too washed out and muffled at times when it should be more hard-hitting it ends up feeling compressed, not really a critique on the music or composition but just the way some of the production is layed out. Liking the backwards strings(?) right here, gives a nice bookend to the intra-dimensional synths at the beginning of the track. Oh I see everything is backwards, I probably should have noticed that before. Love the synths being used, they're bright but sharpened. Superb track, probably the best I've heard yet. Track 6 Wind samples straight into a killer atmo bm riff, very Paysage of you Mondo, I like it. Some sort of ambient airplane sounding synth in the background that adds to the atmosphere nicely, I like that it's slowly but surely overtaking the main riff and meshing it all together into this noisy hell set. I know that isn't very consistent with my critique earlier, but here I really like it and I think it benefits in tone instead of hindering it. The vocals keep getting more and more cavernous along with the beat into this one big droning noise piece with barely discernible drumming, it's slow moving, but completely effective. I think people forget how easily a black metal guitar tone can manipulated into pure noise that can really spice up a track and add some flames to the hellscape, which by the way is the best way to describe this song an absolute hellscape. This is more or less turning into an ambient noise piece, a very interesting ambient noise piece might I add; it has these glistening synths that sound like wind chimes and breathy wind like screams and guitars that take up a majority of the mix. That was a wonderful change in pace from the rest of the album, more subdued, more willing to rest on one idea and not being quite as schizophrenic, not that I minded that quality at all, in fact it's one of my favorite things about the album, just good to hear some variation so the form never gets stale. Track 7 Starts right away with what might be the saddest black metal riff I've ever heard, oh wait a train is coming in and there are some synths. Aw I was hoping it'd rest a little more on just the riff itself, but that's okay. Lots of rumbling noise in the background and that train once again. Absolutely love the little electronic hisses here and there they're quite pretty and add this sort of bruised charm to the whole thing. It all disintegrated into this dark ambient piece pretty quickly, but it has this motorik beat somewhere in the left channel which provides some forward motion to the sci-fi synths and the wind noise. Yeah loving the synths in the section they have that other-worldly feel again. Never heard ambient wind noise with black metal drumming and screaming, it's quite different. There's this little riff, not sure weather it's on a synth or guitar, that is quite pretty somewhere towards the end of this one. This one was good, had a few times here and there where I though something more should happen, but overall I'm pleased. Track 8 Ambient noise, oh ambient noise how calming you are to what I'm anticipating is the final wave of a long storm. There's another one of those detuning synths that's really freaking me out and making me very uncomfortable. The title really fits "Mount Gaash: Descent" it feels like whatever spawned in earlier and brought about the apocalypse has done it's damage and is now dragging itself and it's army back into the the fiery depths below. Alright so this song is more of a Flood IV type deal where the storm has passed and this is what we're left with. It's stupefying in its quiet cadence of destruction, but also terrifying in that it is the end, not only of this album, but as well as the world that it created and destroyed. The drums really adds well to the whole atmosphere I've been imagining in my head, one final hurrah as they descend into the abyss and all the meanwhile the sun rises in the background. Great ing ending to a great album. Final Verdict: ** man that was really good, I had some minor complaints, but wow that was a great album, kudos. 8/10 __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

03-09-2016, 08:50 AM	#225 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	Thanks for the review Mondo I thought it was really amazing it basically points out everything I like about the album and everything I dislike. One thing just to add is the third track is just a guitar and a delay pedal, I just used it as a loop station and used different objects lying around my room to get the percussion sounds. __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.