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Originally Posted by Laeth MacLaurie
Four songs are stretched across 44 minutes
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stretched being the key.
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The album opens with the dreamspace echoes of the intro to "Det som engang var," perhaps the greatest single masterpiece of metal ever produced, a song built of the controlled but explosive energy of longing and the almost unbearable weight of eternity condensed into its many contemplative pauses.
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Killer song, although "greatest single masterpiece of metal ever produced" really doesn't need to be pointed out as being a total exaggeration of its quality.
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Originally Posted by Laeth MacLaurie
It closes with the fading heartbeat and forlorn keyboard melody of "Tomhet," a prayer offered up to the darkness within, the very essence of its sound hinting at the crushing silence of the void without.
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And this is 1 of the 3 reasons the album achieves nothing but mediocrity. 14 minutes of uninteresting "ambience" which really goes no where and sounds like the end (or start) of the soundtrack to a b-grade 80's movie about a journey through fucking space. There is a rumour "Tohmet" translates to English as "dull", but perhaps I'm just reading what I want to read.