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Hellhammer playing in an "unblack" band? Are we talking about the same Hellhammer? The one from Mayhem, Arcturus, The Kovenant, and Dimmu Borgir? It really sounds like if it's him, he would even play in the Zecchino d'oro band just to make some money, for fuck's sake!

So. Right now I'm listening to the single. Five stars are too few to describe its beauty. If anyone trusts me (those few), they should do nothing but find a way to buy it. I saw on the band's website that the album will be out on August 31, and I've already pre-ordered it, because I have a feeling it's going to be my album of the year. And I say this without too many euphemisms. No kidding. Class is not water, and in one fell swoop Amorphis will show that when the masters of a genre set out to compose something exceptional, they achieve it without much difficulty. A big shout-out once again to the reviewer. Damn, for the first time I'm envious of someone because I wish I could have been the one to describe this single!

Jesus Christ! How could I not notice that Amorphis released something new? How could I after "Eclipse," which I liked so much? I'm rushing to make up for it, and then I'll also return to vote for the single. Great job to the reviewer.

I liked this album. Despite everything, including the fact that I have always preferred the Lost of "Draconian Times." But I must say that the songs from "Host," taken individually, are not bad at all when considered in their intrinsic context, free from a "before" and an "after." And these works also demonstrate the great originality of bands like the Lost: the ability to change over time. Then, it’s unclear why bands like Katatonia are praised and idolized for taking a different path from their beginnings, while when the Lost do it, it’s called garbage... Oh well...

But look, curious about the boy who commented on my reviews, I started rummaging through his, and what a joy it was to find certain content! Do you think these guys have learned the lesson from Therion? Are you sure? Hell, if I could, I'd put Therion as a decorative piece in my house, no doubt about it! Anyway, you convinced me. For a moment I’ll step away from the Black metal I’m listening to and from Viking, and I'm going to look for this band. Well done in the review.

For Psychopompe, on the other hand. Whether you wrote clichés or not, you can compare them to mine if you wish. This myth also transcends reality, doesn’t it? Similarly, discussing onions when one is actually invited to reflect on potatoes also fits, don’t you think?

Dear Vortex (the "dear" is because you remind me of ICS, whom I enjoy listening to), if you were to decide to cast your Orwellian and social-democratic gaze upon my response to you, and perhaps even in the previous review, you would discover (and it's the third time I'm saying this) that I spoke of "barbarians" and not of lofty and peaceful intellectual scribblers. By the devil, it seemed to me that I had written everything correctly in Italian, not in Chinese, for goodness' sake! I am not talking about education, or superior and inferior civilizations, or anything else. I wrote about a fascination, mine, which you may share or not. The same goes for the concepts of tolerance and freedom, which may fit well somewhere else, but not here, because honestly I did not talk about them and I am not interested in them in this context. If I like something and I try to describe it to the best of my ability, it doesn’t mean it has to be shared by others. This is also tolerance and freedom, don’t you think? Focusing instead on the commas to go through the mirrors is something else entirely.

@psychopompe: It may be true that I have written a bunch of clichés. It is undeniable that you have written just as many, allow me to say that. No offense intended, of course. Apparently, there is a misunderstanding here regarding the fact that I wrote about "Barbarians" (and maybe the font is too small for you to read it, you are right), and not about enlightened philosophers and wise statesmen. Furthermore, to contest the fact that I wrote "dozens" instead of "hundreds" of years before Columbus seems to me rather a frivolous argument because in my country the two terms are almost interchangeable, or is Math some sort of opinion somewhere else?

I wonder if we are in a Norse History lesson or in a review aggregator, and therefore, what sense does it make to contest the contents of something that one does not know? It would be better to listen first, and then dispute; otherwise, isn’t it a bit like the dog that “bites its own tail?”

I really liked the atmosphere of the album because I believe I am sensitive to certain topics, and whether these are trivial and demagogic to others is not my concern, just as it is not for all the things that do not interest me, from which I refrain from commenting. Always and in any case.

@Vortex: That the Vikings were considered a "barbaric" people by the civilized world of their time (we're talking about roughly 700-1000 AD, in terms of the Varangians) is beyond debate, and so I don't understand what the comparisons with the toilets and baths built by some Roman Emperor have to do with it. But if that's the case, I could also tell you that already around five hundred years before the founding of the City, when poor ignorant shepherds roamed around the Roman hills, a civilization was rising in Greece that perhaps had few toilets at home, but was already flourishing in culture and civilization. Just to say that, nothing more. As for the strictly musical aspect, it always surprises me to think that there are people who, unlike me, who, mind you, don’t consider the Poetic Edda (which has nothing to do with the album and with Turisas, at least in this context) a simple and pure nonsense, judge a band only because, at the mere sound of the word "Power," they break out in hives. Especially on a Monday morning! Without even knowing it! What on earth! Have some patience! I should have rather gone in circles with some Death Rock reviews, right?

This album, just by listening to Pete Sandoval's drumming, is worth the money you have to spend to buy it. Forget Hellhammer, forget it!
I agree with what the reviewer wrote: it's not Morbid Angel playing Death Metal, it's the Morbids themselves reinventing the genre every time, without too many concerns about labels or things like that. What’s certain, though, is that every time I put a Morbid record in my stereo, the earbuds tremble with joy.
Well done!