Purchases and acquisitions

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I have owned that record for quite some time now (stumbled upon it when the first pressing was up fpr pre-order) and love it. I can see how you feel about it, but personally I think that this is a record that one has to allow himself to get into. Like with Igorrr's records. Event though it wants to be taken serious, actually taking it TO serious might hurt more than doing good. Not sure if you see what I'm aiming at, tho . ;-) Personally, I recommend that you give it another chance. They had the whole album up as an exclusive stream a couple of days ago, but unfortunately it's already down again. Anyway, here's "Come on down", which I think is awesome - and hope that's not the "other one" you were talking about ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggE3OwlPIYc

Yes, I actually believe it was just that one :D Don't really see any point in that whole song, it's just two parts which don't fit together at all. I'm repeating myself, but the title track really had an engaging atmosphere and a great video, too! I'd found this much more interesting, if it would be atmospheric slave music with a satanist vibe. And those post-rock guitars actually work well as a spice in that song, I think.

I honestly too don't get the hype Zeal and Ardor are causing. Even more i don't like the fact that people are tagging it as black metal. It sure got my attention to it (as intended) but to me his view of black metal is something more towards melodeath and such (honestly i think the metal parts in those songs are closer to what bands like Children of Bodom are doing). While i usually don't like to blame anyone for falsely branding their music into certain category to create hype, to me Zeal and Ardor seems to be doing just that.

Agreed. I have a hard time finding anything black metal about it, that's why I put it in quotations in the previous post.