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What are your thoughts on it?

Now listening:

Kataklysm - Of Ghosts and Gods

Just more of the same......

I really like "London". Much better than the first, IMO. It's put together oddly (all those narrated sections) and it has some stuff that would probably seem like filler on its own, but in the context of the album, it makes sense. And, I feel like they've finally developed their own voice, post-Akercocke.

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I really like "London". Much better than the first, IMO. It's put together oddly (all those narrated sections) and it has some stuff that would probably seem like filler on its own, but in the context of the album, it makes sense. And, I feel like they've finally developed their own voice, post-Akercocke.

I must say, I kinda hated this album at the first listen, mostly because of the production didn't seem to fit the music imo, but also because it's a kinda weird album. Though the more I listened to it, the more I liked it. It is indeed a pretty good album.

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Ulver - Not Saved

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I must say, I kinda hated this album at the first listen, mostly because of the production didn't seem to fit the music imo, but also because it's a kinda weird album. Though the more I listened to it, the more I liked it. It is indeed a pretty good album.

It is certainly one of the best 'scare the hell out of your friends/enemies/family/coworkers' metal albums.

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I must say, I kinda hated this album at the first listen, mostly because of the production didn't seem to fit the music imo, but also because it's a kinda weird album. Though the more I listened to it, the more I liked it. It is indeed a pretty good album.

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Ulver - Not Saved

 I'm not a huge fan of the production, but I think it suits what they're doing. I've heard quite a few British bands going for that super-modern sound recently, makes me even happier about Grave Miasma's murky tones...

Speaking of scaring the piss out of people - NP: Bethlehem - Dictius Te Necare

Though it might just make them laugh, with these vocals... 

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 I'm not a huge fan of the production, but I think it suits what they're doing. I've heard quite a few British bands going for that super-modern sound recently, makes me even happier about Grave Miasma's murky tones...

In a sort of way, yes it fits the music. But still I think the production is to clean and as you said too modern.

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^I don't know, is there any situation where anyone likes clean sound production better?

...I mean I  frequently do, but then I'm a weirdo who doesn't do alcohol, full albums or small breasts.

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^I don't know, is there any situation where anyone likes clean sound production better?

...I mean I  frequently do, but then I'm a weirdo who doesn't do alcohol, full albums or small breasts.

I like 90s clean. I'm developing a taste for all kinds of production, though; I used to hate 60s and 70s drum sounds, but lately I love them. I'm getting more and more annoyed with artificial sounds that lack dynamics and don't give a sense of real space (my own stuff suffers from this), but even more than that, I get pissed off when I hear a "standard" production job - a record where it's obvious that they were going for some homogenized ideal rather than finding a unique sound. Mid 2000s death metal usually offends my ears these days. 

Neither of those are hard and fast rules for me, though, the bottom line is that the production should be a choice that fits what the music is trying to accomplish.

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I like 90s clean. I'm developing a taste for all kinds of production, though; I used to hate 60s and 70s drum sounds, but lately I love them. I'm getting more and more annoyed with artificial sounds that lack dynamics and don't give a sense of real space (my own stuff suffers from this), but even more than that, I get pissed off when I hear a "standard" production job - a record where it's obvious that they were going for some homogenized ideal rather than finding a unique sound. Mid 2000s death metal usually offends my ears these days. 

Neither of those are hard and fast rules for me, though, the bottom line is that the production should be a choice that fits what the music is trying to accomplish.

I like clean production, I just don't like sterile, poorly mixed and bricked in masters with no dynamic range. Clean is good because you can hear everything better, which is not the same as the overly digitized stuff that makes it sound like it wasn't even made by humans. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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