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Release date: 5 May 2009
Style: Progressive metal, Avantgarde metal

Rating:

8.8 | 115 votes

Owners:

93 have it
19 want it


01. Passing
02. Phantom Pain
03. Dare You
04. Fate
05. He Will Kill Again
06. Not Even A Name
07. Tall Poppy Syndrome
08. White

Top 20 albums of 2009: 5

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Guest review by
embracing

Rating:
9.0
If you're looking for some prog/avantgarde goodness without all the pointless technicality, just awesome songs, but still with a great original edge to which you can even headbang (Headbanging to prog? Who am I kidding?), these Norwegian gentlemen provide your cure.

I am writing this review one year after Leprous' next album, Bilateral was released. Yes, said album turned many heads, yes, it got promoted like crazy by Ihsahn, yes, most people who know the band now know it because of that album (me among them) and for many of us, it remains one of the great surprises of 2011 (which is a big deal, considering how progtastic 2011 proved to be). But let's take a look at what their previous release had to offer. Is it as groundbreaking as the follow-up, only less promoted and fallen through the cracks?

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published 09.12.2012 | Comments (5)

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MetalDoomMaster - 14.10.2011 at 06:56  
Rating: 9 I think this is a lot better than Bilateral. A lot more memorable stuff on this album. Very good prog album
kubuzetto - 17.10.2011 at 19:42  
Rating: 10 Great album... Especially White is...
So. FUCKING. Perfect.
qlacs - 29.10.2011 at 16:54  
Rating: 10 Definitely better than Bilateral.
Demonic Tutor - 24.08.2012 at 04:29  
Rating: 9 Now I can die... Holy hell, what an album.
Behradeth - 14.10.2012 at 10:10  
Rating: 10 I was listening to it this morning. An epic album filled with memorable stuff.
undi - 22.04.2013 at 14:07  
Rating: 10 At first, you don't have the furthest idea what you're getting into.
Then, you don't know how you lived without this album until now.
When you finish... you just can't finish. You come back again, and again. And again.

I'm glad I somehow found this little known gem, and I hope they finally get the attention they deserve.

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