Fraxinus

Modal jazz, critics would say, praising its harmonic structures and improvisational skill. Class and Feeling, I say, without taking anything away from any critical analysis. An immeasurable record!

After Bitches Brew, definitely one of the albums by Davis that I prefer. A succulent 5!

The album is interesting, and within it you can find good ideas as well as intriguing experiments. Alas, what undermines it is, in my opinion, the production... really barren and cold. Nevertheless, it's a good work for Mameli and his bandmates, and it certainly deserves several listens.

Predictable, sterile, calculated to a fault.
Sifting through the frenzied and fanatical comments, I can’t help but say that this Swedish band gave their best between the second LP and the subsequent EP.
De gustibus...

I remember when "With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness" was released, there was a little corner all dedicated to this album in a Milanese megastore. Attracted inexplicably by the wonderful cover, highlighted by the vinyl packaging, I approached and put on the headphones to listen on the spot. I think I stayed there for a good half hour, and finally grabbed one of the copies piled up and bought it. On the same day, I also got that immense masterpiece "Grin" by Coroner, but that's... another story.
To be honest, this is one of the archetypal albums of a certain Swedish death metal: undoubtedly NOT a masterpiece, but a clear and genuine example of that subgenre characterized by oblique and cold melodic scores, complete with sharp ice-cold riffs. At times, there might be too much "commotion" in the songs of this work, but after all these years, it is still quite enjoyable to listen to. I found "The Red in the Sky is Ours" much less "on point", but definitely promising. For those, like me, who remained indifferent to Slaughter of the Soul, it is in this album that the true sound of At The Gates resides, or at most in the following "Terminal Spirit Disease." From then on, they seemed really too predictable and aseptic.

I caught it on the fly when it came out, and I dove into it completely for months.
What an album, guys!

The creative, musical, emotional, and compositional peak of Queen. Light years away from their questionable eighties... this album is a warm shell to take refuge in ad infinitum, a concentrate of diaphanous and astonishing sacredness. Incommensurable.

Funkone mountain breaker, that’s what this brilliant little disc here is!

Exciting to the core, and forgive me the quirky expression.

Perfect review, clear and fitting like never before. You captured exactly what this succulent album conveys, which in my opinion is the creative peak of Dorrian&Co. The color comparisons you used are spectacularly spot-on, as well as that "vam va vam va vam" that still makes me burst out laughing.
Stunning album, and a review worthy of applause!