Yeah that’s vocals alright. I absolutely love the guitar-work here and that blackened section in the back shreds,

I 100% fell for the cover thinking it would be an OSDM or tech-death album. Surprised, but pleasantly, totally badass. Never, and I mean NEVER would have guessed they were German, I could have sworn they were West Coast.

At what point are they finally going to realize he’s been entirely serious the whole time?

Their last album was incredible and they continued it here, absolutely badass group. Perfect amount of tech and dissonant “messiness” to make a compelling as hell LP.

I spend a lot of hours trying not to think about all the snakes I have not seen while hiking.

I won’t fall for it. I won’t fall for it. I won’t fall for it…

1000% Agree on the bass comment here, it really gives the whole album this awesome character.

Goddamn this shreds, honestly surprised you didn’t post War Outside the Wall, the drumming there is just insane.

Eh, I can not say that I agree that people’s attachment to privacy is purely a matter of the current status quo. I think a human desire for privacy, at least in some contexts, is innate. Sure, I’ll grant that it’s extremity in the modern era is due to the oppressive and abusive state, but I think people have an certain in-born aversion to being overly judged and observed.

Well, I simply cannot agree that anything that would notably increase human misery could be considered optimal in the first place. So I suppose on first facts we simply disagree.

Well let’s consider that logical validity, while useful for objective facts and conditions, might not be a good a benchmark for things that humans are emotionally attached to? Is it an unreasonable thing to point out that most humans simply do not (and will not) use the formal system of logic, even if trained in it, as the basis on which they emotionally relate to their experience? What I am trying to say is just that, while it might be logically valid it is not emotionally valid, and that really does matter. Would you enforce a world that is reasonable and logical, but makes the people who live in it uncomfortable and miserable?

most argumentation from your side is just common trolling or logical fallacies, which makes me think that I’m correct.

This, itself, is a logical fallacy. A fallacious argument is not “incorrect” or “wrong” it’s just invalid, meaning it does not meet the formal requirements of logical validity, not much else. Things can be both fallacious and correct.

I don’t know what holds these dudes back, it can’t just be the dorky name, people have overlooked stupider.

Gross, reds? Seriously?

How the hell have I never heard of this? This is excellent, this is perfect, this is what I want from thrash and no that’s not the half a fifth of Knob Creek talking.

One of my fave doom metal songs of all times is easily the instrumental of Empress Rising. Not to dog on the vocals of the original, but it’s pretty undeniably far more powerful without them. So, I see what you mean. That said, vocals/lyrics really are just the “sauce and seasoning” of a good metal track to me, it’s just not quite right most of the time without it.

Absolutely sick, normally instrumentals are very polarizing for me, I’m very into lyrics (even when it’s cornball bullshit I’m not gonna lie) so usually they either become all time favorites(Redneck Stomp hello!), or I just entirely forget about them after the fact.

Horny brain can override a lot of better judgement.

The magic of being a Veblen good.

Yeah, i also get depressed thinking about how long it took for Rome to fall.