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MultidexSE
there is no other album that make me as pensive and contemplative as this one. few things compares.
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Dragon_eats_sky
One of my first brushes with black metal. Along with Immortal, this band (and particularly this album) have showed me a world of bleak beauty that I could never fathom.
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Dragon_eats_sky
I think a good part of their discography past “Imrara” can be seen as having black metal characterics (mainly tremelo style riffing and general mood) Regardless it really doesn’t matter at all what an approprote label for this band could be, but their BM traits was a gateway into a whole new scene for me (And I still think they’re a killer band)
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bradmatic
Fair enough. Admittedly I haven't really kept very up to date with this band so that may very well be the case. And ya, I don't really get hung up on the many labels that get slapped on bands for whatever reason, but I was genuinely confused by seeing this album in particular described as black metal.
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julius_ebola
'I built my tower of song of words of bitter splintered bone' ... Tower of Song is a Cohen song title too.
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ArrTheMesia
Such a masterpiece, this album... Together with "To The Nameless Dead" Primordial's best!
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julius_ebola
It just hit me - is the title track a deliberate reference to/inspired by the Leonard Cohen song 'Last Year's Man' from the album 'Songs of Love and Hate'? There's a line in that that goes ' ... but the wilderness is gathering all its children back again". Anyone? While I'm asking, there's also the opening line of Empire Falls (A cold wind is blowing, through the graves it's blowing) which seems to be a reference to an old French song Cohen famously covered, 'The Partisan' (The wind the wind is blowing/through the graves the wind is blowing'? Is Alan a big Cohen fan by any chance?
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Casio_Panzer
Its a shame some people do not like this record. I think it shows Primordial's song writing and style maturing, without this album there wouldn't be Empire Falls or Puritan's Hand. I greatly appreciate the dark, brooding and rather intense atmosphere, exceptionally uncompressed organic production and the fact the songs don't provide and instant fix. They actually need to be paid attention too!
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Spatenstecher
Primordial's weakest...if they hadn't released Redemption at the Puritan's Hand :/ still far from the old masterpieces.
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Knoter
I was sooo dissapointed with this album when it came out, after 'storm before calm', which was really intence, dark and angry, 'the gathering wilderness' sounded uninspired, watered down and even boring. today, 4 years later, I'm still trying to find something in it for me... but it's just boring....(
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HippySpeedball
The Coffin Ships is great, but the rest is just as boring as the rest of their preceding discography.
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