Hell

Alright then, I'm off à la recherche du Pelican perdu.

"City" was really bad, I'm a bit worried about this new album... Should I skip it or give it a listen?

Beautiful. It alternates between extremely high peaks of expressiveness ("Chrome", "The Future of Speech", "Tonight's Music", etc.) and passable tracks that don't leave much impression ("Passing Bird", "Clean Today", "Sweet Nurse"), but overall, it's quite enjoyable to listen to.

This album is a failure...

There's also the cherry on top, which is the video for "Day And Then The Shade". Truly awful, but above all, it has nothing to do with the song or with Katatonia in general: gothic little ladies in a Cradle Of Filth style eating worms, rubbing against each other, and writhing in the throes of improbable orgasms... Shameful! Anyway, with each listen, this album increasingly strikes me as mediocre and bland. I almost envy the metal audience that has praised and lauded it in every corner of the web. Sigh!

Dear Rosaspina, you define Black Metal as "a hodgepodge with neither head nor tail, aimed only at grinding the listener's ears," and so on and so forth—many other things I've read and reread hundreds of times until exhaustion... I can't stand the poses of fake satanists either (because satanism is certainly not about putting impaled goat heads on stage to scare the audience or taking a shower of blood during a live performance, and I hope you know that) from certain bands, some of which are mentioned by the reviewer, like the ridiculous Dark Funeral. But if you really want to pass a total judgment (even from an "ideological" perspective) on an entire genre (Black is truly vast, trust me), I recommend you take a good tour among the countless bands that populate it and that still uphold its majestic ruins today; of course, it’s better if you don’t just fish out the usual four cats you can read here and there (Dark Funeral, Gorgoroth, and the like). You will understand that Black is not just the overused stereotype that the masses prejudge. Whether or not it makes you feel like shit about mammoth fangs in a 1:1 scale (cit.) is a whole other story that doesn't interest me, but if your metric for judgment is based on some half-assed track you listened to just for the sake of it and (especially) on the appearance that the aforementioned bands want to flaunt, then you can also refrain from the burdensome task of demolishing all of Black Metal in four lines. Cheers.

Staying in bed barricaded in my room with the lights off, burning incense in industrial quantities and this album at a gut-shaking volume, halfway between dream-nightmare and lucid reality, is an absurd experience that I've had more than enough of, but that I had to go through.

For those who are into the genre, this album is divine nectar. "Lefthanded Sign" is my favorite.

Damn it! Remove spaces in the link..!