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| A Dream of Poe? Uh oh, don't let ponderer see this review or Troy will get it in the neck. |
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The band name's a bit...geeky...to be honest, but their music looks appealing, like its right up my alley. Most likely to check them out.
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| A bit disappointing actually. Apart from Lady of Shalott and Neophyte the rest of the songs sound like MDB dejá-vù. |
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Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 10.03.2011 at 23:05
A Dream of Poe? Uh oh, don't let ponderer see this review or Troy will get it in the neck.
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My own personal review for this album:
A Dream Of Poe - The Mirror Of Deliverance (2011) - A Dream Of Poe is a doom/death band that sounds pretty run of the mill if you ask me. The songs go on for quite a bit, like in a normal doom/death album, (Nox Aurea for example) and the music is generally slow and depressive. There is some My Dying Bride influence here, and some ideas in the album that make a few songs more listenable than others, but as far as I'm concerned - there's not a whole hell of a lot here to make an impression except for the great guitar solos, and overall tremendous riffs.
Death/Doom fans, especially of My Dying Bride will more than likely enjoy this album, but I've heard far better in previous review sets. This one's up to you. The vocal style is much deeper than the vocalist for My Dying Bride, but the riffing is very similar, sans those great guitar solos. Not saying that MDB never had good solos, because they did - just these are really great. I'm not saying it's a bad album, because it has it's merits.
OVERALL: DOOM/DEATH INSPIRED BY MY DYING BRIDE. THE SOLOS ARE REALLY GREAT, DESPITE THE LONG LENGTH OF THE SONGS. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS TO DEPRESSIVE DOOM FANS, BUT IT'S NOT PERFECT. THERE ARE HOWEVER SOME GOOD TRACKS, SO IT'S UP TO YOU. STILL WORTH A SPIN FOR THE GOTHIC DOOMY FOLKS OUT THERE.
Score: 4/5
I normally review 15-20 albums a week. This is just one of em I decided to check out. |
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Love this album
Fav Songs: ALL |
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| Crap name, good band, good album! |
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| Decent stuff....and who cares about the goddamn band name. |
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Written by Abattoir on 12.03.2011 at 13:10
Decent stuff....and who cares about the goddamn band name.
I do and I was nearly e-raped for it. |
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| The name does not matter, what matters is the content which is excellent |
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Written by joaonvno2009 on 12.03.2011 at 21:21
The name does not matter, what matters is the content which is excellent
It's not that the name matters, it's that the name is stupid. I listened to one of their earlier EPs and the music was definitely good. |
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Written by FallenAlchemist on 11.03.2011 at 06:38
I normally review 15-20 albums a week.
Yeah, right... |
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Not lying. But I'll admit that it has been slow since I've been working. I have however reviewed at least 30 albums this month.
Here is a link to my reviews on Page's (Vore's frontman) forum, NWA Metal.com:
http://www.nwametal.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=41&sid=3911a3140d2ee2ac033b71eaaf224d15
(obviously one must copy and paste into browser) Let me know what you think. |
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| I eagerly want to hear this one... I must hear them |
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Written by FallenAlchemist on 24.04.2012 at 21:12
Let me know what you think.
I really dislike song-by-song reviews, and I'm not surprised you're able to write 15-20 a week as a result.
Not trying to sound like a douche or anything, that's just my two cents. |
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Well, not all of them are song by song reviews. I did a poll, but people seem to prefer the song by song reviews to the other ones, which I'll do if most of the songs sound along the same lines. Personally, it's quicker and easier to do the reviews if they aren't song by song. I could probably do twice the amount if I just ran a few paragraphs. But to each their own. Of course, I think it's rather tough to do a review on an album where every song sounds drastically different from the next.
Of course, my whole motive is this: Most of these people haven't heard X album yet, so my job is to explain just what they're spending their money on, and if it's worth spending their money on. Some people only like certain tracks, so I feel that I need to outline and explain each and every one of them in the most legible content that I can. I've even said, go ahead and buy this track from ITunes, but not this one.
It's the future of buying music after all. |
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| For some time song-by-song reviews were not accepted and I used to give advice to those whose reviews tilted too much towards that direction. Maybe things are different now. I have no idea, tho... |
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