Nice atmosphere, well worked album, but I believe it is overrated by the aspect of not representing as first or unique the genres used.

Overrated?

The fact that it's a solo project makes it even more impressive.

Written by Paw!! on 27.10.2016 at 16:18

Overrated?

Yep. Including by myself, initially. I still think it's a pretty darn good album, but listening to it all the way through becomes a chore due to its length (a flaw that so many one-man atmoblack projects' albums seem to have) and like Troy said some time ago, the classical elements are something of a nuisance, because the heavier parts are so much better.

Just stumbled upon an interview where Horace claims the album took "2300 litres of black tea and 1200 litres of vino" to record and produce - no wonder it's such a masterpiece .

Bloody wicked music

Ne Obliviscaris, Be'lakor, Aquilus - what is going on the Ozzie island?

keep em coming!

A bit overrated imo. but not a fan of pure black or symphonic black.

Ok so, another one of those albums where I go like:
Come on now, there must be something really good about this, I mean look, so many people praising the shit out of it.
So I give it another try after a couple of years.
(And I like Symphonic Black in general quite a lot, am a huge fan of Summoning e.g.)
Yet again, here I come to the same conclusion:
Griseus basically has all the elements I want it to have, and they are for themselves all well performed (that is why I have at least a 7 here).
But other than that I can really not find anything that particularly attracts my attention here.
Have tried several times now -- well not a 100 times but I now really dont feel like I want to give it yet another try, that would surely be different with albums that grow on me, where from each listen to the next I keep the urge to give it yet another spin because I somehow have this feeling that I havent discovered everyhing yet in every detail it should be considered, or that I just want to listen to some particular detail again. That is definitely not the case with this album, I will bury it now I guess.

Written by Redel on 26.12.2018 at 00:18

Ok so, another one of those albums where I go like:
Come on now, there must be something really good about this, I mean look, so many people praising the shit out of it.
So I give it another try after a couple of years.
(And I like Symphonic Black in general quite a lot, am a huge fan of Summoning e.g.)
Yet again, here I come to the same conclusion:
Griseus basically has all the elements I want it to have, and they are for themselves all well performed (that is why I have at least a 7 here).
But other than that I can really not find anything that particularly attracts my attention here.
Have tried several times now -- well not a 100 times but I now really dont feel like I want to give it yet another try, that would surely be different with albums that grow on me, where from each listen to the next I keep the urge to give it yet another spin because I somehow have this feeling that I havent discovered everyhing yet in every detail it should be considered, or that I just want to listen to some particular detail again. That is definitely not the case with this album, I will bury it now I guess.

Well that's ok, not every album is gonna connect with you, even if it is your style. It's great that you've given it several chances instead of rating it 2 or 3 and saying "overrated" in the comments, which is neither constructive nor interesting to anyone.
I am of the opinion that this is a masterpiece, one of the best albums in the last 10 years. Attention to detail is amazing, its complexity and atmosphere as well as beautiful acoustic and piano passages are growing on me with every listen.
Edit: Forgot to mention the cover art which is absolutely amazing. Looks like a late baroque picture.

Very overrated

01. Nihil - 10/10
02. Loss - 10/10
03. Smokefall - 9/10
04. In Lands of Ashes - 8.5/10
05. Latent Thistle - 8/10
06. Arboreal Sleep - 8/10
07. The Fawn - 8.5/10
08. Night Bell - 8/10

Overall: 8.8/10

If all of the tracks were the same quality as the first two, this would be a masterpiece.

This album is really a master of works. This is how we should go about creating art in this forsaken world! I just come back to this album a lot, it's great.

Really good album.

although it is far from perfect since I think the heavy parts sound a bit rough, and some of them go where they should not. classical parts sometimes sound like the sum of many parts but not a whole.

even so, I have listened to it several times and it is simply relaxing and inspiring at the same time. and that it's a one-man project makes it really motivating for any songwriter.