Regie Sathanas - Enthroned

Advantages: Great musicianship, classic songs, clear production
Disadvantages: Some weak tracks

..."Enthrone Darkness Triumphant" is yet another fantastic album from Symphonic Metal masters, Dimmu Borgir. I found this album to be highly enjoyable and bursting with talent and originality. The band clearly demonstrate that they are masters of their craft, with the majority of the songs here being laced with catchy guitar hooks, beautiful keyboard passages and empowered blast beat drumming, all tightly and flawlessly executed. This album supplies some of the band's greatest and most memorable material in the form of the tracks 'Mourning Palace" "In Death's Embrace" and "Master Of Disharmony" There are, of course, a few duds to be found here, in particular "Relinquishment of Spirit and Flesh" The production on this album is excellent, providing some of the raw energy necessary for the execution of this style whilst maintaining... Read review

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Advantages: typical Nightwish, style; altogether, the CD is an ear feast & surely one the lovely song of Tarja in connection with the Drums, guitars and co. ., the best of the band;
Disadvantages: two titles meet my approval in comparison with the others of some

...a dramatic coursing by the title kept in the quick Uptempo to this for the most part, which awkward Synthie breaks are angegrowlte Vocals, spherical scale Geklimper, small Leads, just as at home as nervous Gestreiche in the background, easy -- Tarja Turunen sits enthroned over everything with its pure voice. Shortly before the beginning of the dirtten minute the Track then reaches its dramatic highlight, this one in a desperate cry Tarjas culminates. It follows almost more as brilliant one give a rocket with bombastic keyboard intermezzo and sawing E guitars, which lets force me into storms of enthusiasm again and again. Sacrament of Wilderness One quite keyboard emphatically goes here from the beginning to work by playing with chord spherically one played discreetly, played nicely. On the other hand, the verses belong this one... Read review

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Advantages: no bad songs
Disadvantages: nnnn0

...exhausting tracks this listener simply longs for something less epic and more intimate. As a result, for all its yearning and concern with the big themes, X&Y never really makes an emotional connection in the same way as, say, The Arcade Fire's Funeral or Sufjan Stevens' Michigan. Shane, Dublin Amazing. In one word. Fix you is easily the best track. DAMN CRAZY FROG BEATING SPEED OF SOUND TO NUMBER 1!! THE FROG SHOULD BE SHOT! Joe, bere regis This review is hugely OTT. Sure it's good. It doesn't break new ground, it sounds like coldplay. I don't think you can fault that, what did you want from a coldplay album? I certainly didn't want Kid A! But the fact remains that this album sound uniformly the same. Each track is beautiful and well produced. Yet I do want to see progression from a band, otherwise we'll just have another Oasis forever... Read review

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