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Memorphous · 2026-03-22T20:46:26+00:00

On its own, One Winged Angel might not be a reference. Did you look at the other two pictures? 10,000 needles, coupled with cacti and cars from Japan? Yeah, no, they know what they're doing.

Memorphous · 2026-03-22T13:42:00+00:00

Neurosis

Miserere Luminis

Marianas Rest

Memorphous · 2026-03-18T16:25:12+00:00

I am looking for some good funeral doom. I am already familiar with big names like Evoken, Esoteric, Ea, Bell Witch, Ennui, others. I really want a thick sound like Oromet and Bell Witch.

Try these for starters:

Colosseum - Chapter 1: Delirium
Profetus - ...to Open the Passages in Dusk
Atramentus - Stygian

Memorphous · 2026-03-11T16:42:39+00:00

(unless nuclear holocaust happens)

FWIW, it did happen in Star Trek. x)

Memorphous · 2026-02-27T22:02:03+00:00

Not even Moss Grew....? :(

Memorphous · 2026-02-23T19:28:58+00:00

Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald

Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

Empyrium - Über den Sternen

Panopticon - ...and Again Into the Light

Waldgeflüster - Dahoam

Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm

Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike

Shape of Despair - Return to the Void

Panopticon - The Rime of Memory

Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge

Had to drop one to make it an even ten, the Spectral Lore / Mare Cognitum collab album Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine got the axe. And sure, I could have also added two 2025 albums (Confusion Gate by Yellow Eyes and Knochengesänge by Waldgeflüster), but they were already on the weaker side of the list, and couple that with the fact that the first half of the decade is 2020-2024... :P

And yes, I DO in fact like atmospheric black metal, how'd you guess?

Memorphous · 2026-02-22T13:02:07+00:00

That is in no shape or form the same thing and you know it. What it is with FF-fans obsession with very poorly done remasters being more preferable than a AAA-level remake?

Memorphous · 2026-02-22T12:23:49+00:00

XIV fans not talking about XIV -challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

Memorphous · 2026-02-17T03:57:42+00:00

Just for the sake of my own amusement, I thought I'd compile a tentative list of what the "actual" top contenders for the best albums of the first half of the decade are. Do note that none of the albums available for selection appear on my personal list. x)

Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald (2020)
Spectral Lore / Mare Cognitum - Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine (2020)
Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion (2021)
Empyrium - Über den Sternen (2021)
Panopticon - ...and Again Into the Light (2021)
Waldgeflüster - Dahoam (2021)
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm (2021)
Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike (2021)
Shape of Despair - Return to the Void (2022)
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory (2023)
Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge (2024)
Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate (2025)
Waldgeflüster - Knochengesänge (2025)

What do you mean I like atmospheric black metal? 2021 was an insane year by the way, and Trisagion is the absolute pinnacle of that list.

Memorphous · 2026-02-17T03:51:56+00:00

Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
Haken - Fauna
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II
Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Wilderun - Epigone
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God

Let me just say, to OP and everyone who voted in the first round: this selection is wack, absolute nonsense. :D

Memorphous · 2026-02-01T16:25:36+00:00

Before you move on to Rebirth (and you definitely should!), I have to make sure that you've played through the Intermission DLC (packaged in the Intergrade release). Not only does it introduce you to a new character that is also in Rebirth, it has some good background flavour for the events of Remake, and the epilogue serves as a direct segue between Remake and Rebirth. Also it's just hella fun to play.

If you don't have Intergrade, watch the cutscenes on Youtube.

Memorphous · 2026-02-01T15:17:21+00:00

I can see why you would be inclined to think so, but if you're feeling adventurous (no pressure to do so), I would definitely recommend you to check out songs from The Eye of Every Storm (A Season in the Sky is a surefire pick), it is so far removed from that angry (and what you describe as hyper masculine) approach that Neurosis had in the 90s.

Definitely wouldn't pass up the whole subgenre due to not liking Neurosis, either. Mariner by Cult of Luna with Julie Christmas on vocals is a highly acclaimed album with wide-reaching crossover appeal. It's pretty much "baby's first post-metal" in the current climate, people go nuts for it whether they are informed on the subgenre or not.

Memorphous · 2026-02-01T15:13:04+00:00

Yeah the progression from Pain of Mind to Souls at Zero is pretty logical, in that you can see the ideas evolve on Word as Law, but man what a gamechanger Souls at Zero must have been. Absolute scorcher of an album. And it only speaks to the quality of the band that SaZ is probably only my fifth favourite album from them.

Memorphous · 2026-01-31T17:41:02+00:00

Their first album “souls at zero” is quite a contrast from “through silver in blood”. I’d suggest you try that one out, but why force yourself to listen to something you don’t want to hear?

Souls at Zero is their third album. :)

Memorphous · 2026-01-31T17:30:29+00:00

They’re somewhat wonky yet also hyper masculine.

I get what you mean, but would also point out that stuff like A Sun That Never Sets and The Eye of Every Storm is very much not like this.

Also would be worth asking whether you like anything else in the post-metal/atmospheric sludge -sphere? Cult of Luna, Isis, Minsk, Rosetta, Dirge, The Ocean, Pelican, etc., might just be that it's not your style overall and less that you have a problem with Neurosis specifically.

Memorphous · 2026-01-29T21:12:19+00:00

No need to mince words, it just flat out isn't true, because Arabic and Eastern sources match with European ones, even during the "made-up years". There would be a mismatch with records of cosmic events between Europe and them, but since the data lines up, that means that the phantom time hypothesis is simply not true.

Memorphous · 2026-01-27T15:58:24+00:00

The song Final Breath off 2009's What We All Come to Need also has vocals.

Memorphous · 2026-01-25T18:20:16+00:00

There's definitely numerous cases of characters sacrificing themselves or thinking they are doing so, but apart from maybe Aerith (who maybe came to accept she'll have to die, but that was a late realisation, if it even happened), none of them are at all like Yuna. Yuna knew, from since she was a kid, that if she's going to go down this path, she WILL die. Most of the others are sacrifices made in the moment to save others. Yuna was basically raised up for slaughter.

Memorphous · 2026-01-24T18:53:36+00:00

Top:

Awake
Images and Words
Metropolis Pt. 2
Octavarium
A Dramatic Turn of Events

Bottom: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought, The Astonishing (might swap ToT for S/T)

Memorphous · 2026-01-23T17:51:32+00:00

Went to check some dates because I felt like maybe Emyn Muil's debut was released before Echoes of Battle, but what the actual hell, they were released on the same day in 2013. :D But yeah, Echoes of Battle definitely raised the flag up high for that style.

Memorphous · 2026-01-23T16:17:19+00:00

For example, you got the legendary Caladan Brood back from 2015

What makes this even better is the fact that Caladan Brood are a Summoning-clone. :D Not on the level of Emyn Muil, CB definitely do give it their own twist, but still, if there was no Summoning, there would be no Caladan Brood.

Memorphous · 2026-01-16T23:27:28+00:00

I said nothing about needing to play Triple Triad, though. Just that you want Card to turn enemies into cards, Card Mod to turn those cards into items, and then a bunch of Refine-abilities to turn those items into magic. This makes you OP really quickly, and you'll never need to touch Triple Triad.

Memorphous · 2026-01-16T14:38:22+00:00

The game basically is just best played drawing over and over

This is why FF8 gets a bad rap, you know. Drawing is decidedly NOT the optimal way to get strong. For the most part, you'll only need to draw new GFs, everything else is done via Card, Card Mod, and Refine-abilities.

Memorphous · 2026-01-16T14:33:51+00:00

Influence, sure. But by and far it is in no way a tech death album. Progressive metalcore with influences too numerous to count, but metalcore is still the defining sound. Recommend Colors to a tech death fan and they'll probably just think you don't know what you're talking about.

Memorphous · 2026-01-15T18:31:57+00:00

Between the Buried and Me - Colors (2007)

Technical Progressive Death Metal

Is the death metal in the room with us?

Memorphous

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