Hell yes! Olympiakos made it to the Conference League final against Fiorentina. Football got interesting for the first time in forever. Let's bring the title home to Greece!
It's crazy how much nonsense I've heard for people who don't truly understand the offside rule (but then again, it's a pretty complex set of rules on paper).
@ Cynic, if you're talking about the 2nd goal, then you're very, very wrong. They were robbed only on that late offside which actually wasn't, and that's that.
01. Winds That Pierce The Silence 02. Ego Sum Omega 03. A Bridge Ablaze 04. Qadmon's Heir 05. Rays Like Razors 06. I Burn Within You 07. A Paradigm Of Beauty 08. Katabasis 09. Innermost, Lowermost Abyss
Hearts Of No Light isn't the full-length exploration of the approach employed on The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite that I was expecting/hoping, but it's yet another excellent album from Schammasch, and still has a surprise or two up its sleeve.
Kinda wish they'd further pursued the tribal/dark ambient/black metal fusion from Triangle disc 3 and Hermaphrodite further, but this is still hugely enjoyable
After a couple of listens, this feels like it may well be the best of their releases. Yes, they are rehashing some riffs and drum patterns, but the overall result needs absolutely no trimming unlike their two previous albums (which were great nonetheless). "A Paradigm Of Beauty" is bloody excellent and different for Schammasch's style (not that they ever had one style). I'll be spinning this a lot and it will end up very high on my black metal album of the year list.
Oh man this is their most adventurous and daring record. They manage to make something truely distinctive without being overtly experimental. There is a lot of variation in the style of the song, and yet, the whole thing is very coherent. Amazingly, they have managed to pull out all the different sounds they have aimed perfectly.
One listen and this is the album of the year already. Top notch stuff from these guys once more.
In love with this album from the first listen. I feel as if they asked me what I wanted to hear and made the album accordingly. I was caught by surprise with A Paradigm of Beauty, it's an occult-goth-rock-black-metal song I didn't know I needed, but I love it.
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Some suffer to the point when they grow numb.
Others are so numb they deserve to suffer.
This sounds pretty good. The vocals are a bit meh, both clean and harsh, but not bad enough to annoy me. As with most of their work, I lose interest after a handful of songs. This band works best for me in small portions, which is ironic considering the length of their releases.
I see myself revisiting the first three and last two tracks, they're probably the most "classic Schammasch" at this point, whatever that means. I appreciate them trying new things in the middle but with "A Paradigm Of Beauty" they kind of failed spectacularly.
Overall, they're definitely doing some things very right; which other bands should take note of.
I really like the album, tho perhaps not as much as Triangle or Sic Luceat Lux (but those are masterpieces that are incredibly difficult to top for me). However, while I appreciate how Schammasch want to create different sounds, I really don't like Paradigm of Beauty. Just doesn't fit with the rest of the album or the sound.
It's official. If "Innermost, Lowermost Abyss" was a single track ep, I would have 10ed it. One of the best closers ever. I hope they expand on this sounds.
Liked Triangle (esp 3rd disc), hated hermaphrodite and absolutely loving this one. Hearts of no light has equal bits of black metal and drone elements. The black metal bits are better sounding to me to say the truth. Some of the riffs are extremely memorable.
Now I remember who this style resembles to me, but in a new version: Satyricon with the great albumites Nemesis Divina, Extravaganza. Listen and you will see the similarity.
This is a great release, a ton of variety, and some great atmospheric moments. I agree the vocals are a weak point, but they're not a major issue for me, and "A Paradigm Of Beauty" may not fit in to the albums overall structure of things, but it's still an excellent track in it's own right and the track I find repeating the most on this album.