Trollheart

This question has been expected all day.
No. I ****ed up the order slightly. It'll be up tomorrow.

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Machine

Alright man I just think you'll really love it, so I don't want you to skip it.

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ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

Trollheart

I wouldn't skip anything, not without a good reason and not without informing whoever recced it.

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Trollheart

Title: Melting Sun
Artiste: Lantlôs
Genre: Experimental Black Metal
Familiarity: Zero
Recommended by: Machine

Expectations: The experimental tag worries me. Some black metal I've listened to has been great, some good, some awful. Hard to really know what to expect. Gonna take a chance and say I hope to like it.

1. Melting Sun I: Azure chimes: Well the titles are certainly not your standard black metal ones! All bright colours, hardly any darkness, unless you count aquamarine. Nice gentle acoustic guitar opening, though I'm waiting for a mad scream and hammering riffs; well there the latter is, though not as harsh as I had expected. Ooh! The vocal is a normal one, no scream, no rasp, no growl. Nice surprise. Actually I couldn't call this any shade of black metal I've ever heard, not even atmospheric. Maybe they were black metal and changed later? Anyway this is really nice.
2. Melting Sun II: Cherry quartz: Yeah, this is much more like post-rock or post-metal. Great work on the guitar, fine melody. Sort of a touch of progressive metal in here too.
3. Melting Sun III: Aquamarine towers: Nice long feedback start, kind of Sabbath riff driving it for the first part
4. Melting Sun IV: Jade fields: another great little mostly instrumental, very powerful.
5. Melting Sun V: Oneironaut: A short one, atmospheric, think it may be all instrumental this time.
6. Melting Sun VI: Golden mind: Lovely reflective, almost warped guitar, slow and laidback with a nice soft vocal. Really quite beautiful. Gives me a kind of Floyd vibe.

End result: An excellent album, but nowhere near anything approaching black metal. Not sure where that came from.

So, Love or Hate? Has to be a Love.

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MicShazam

That Melting Sun album.. I should give that one a try. Seems interesting and I need something a bit different to lure me into black metal territory.

Trollheart

Yeah... it's great but I can't see how it could be classed as any kind of black metal. You should maybe try this


or this


or even this

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Frownland

Maybe use your own brain for the genre tags? Just an idea.

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MicShazam

Right now I'm noly able to read; not listen, so I kind of trusted Trollheart on the genre indicated in the review info. Big mistake, apparently

MicShazam

[QUOTE=Trollheart;1665106]Yeah... it's great but I can't see how it could be classed as any kind of black metal. You should maybe try this

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or this

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or even this

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Thanks I will listen when I get the chance. Never too late to see the light in thhis genre, perhaps (black metal is dark but you know what I mean).
I've heard a lot of talk about Blut Aus Nord but never actually pressed play on any video/stream. I will rectify that.

Frownland

I was talking to Mr. Heart. You're fine. **** him though.

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