I have accumulated many personal reviews while listening to albums. My reviewing style is non-conventional and was only intended for myself. Sometimes I will only use one sentence to describe an album if I feel that is all that's required. Other times I will review an album while I'm still listening to it, leading to a song-by-song review of the album (bringing the size of the review to nearly dissertation-level). There are times when I will even come back to a review to add information that I didn't know when originally writing the review. The point is that I won't edit my reviews to make them more readable or conventional. My reviews are always a direct result of what I was feeling when I wrote them and I want to let that feeling come through.



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Monday, August 16, 2010

Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn [2007]

Another production change-up. The guitars feel less scooped than before and the bass drum has less low-end punch to it. The drums are a little lower in the mix as well. There's even more Doom Metal influence on this album than on "Perdition Insanabilis" and the transition between the two is very sensible and flows very well. "Magnificant Satanas" is fucking brutally awesome. The song structures are more refined. I just wish that they spent less time in the Doom style during the first half of many songs.

Rating: 8.5

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Arkhon Infaustus - Perdition Insanabilis [2004]

Continues on from FC but with better production quality. This album has less grinding than previous ones. It also pushes the music further into the Black Metal realm.

Rating: 8

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Arkhon Infaustus - Filth Catalyst [2003]

WHOA. Awesome grind in the first track. It's a little over-compressed, but that really adds to the power of the production. Awesome mix of blasphemous/evil riffs with the Death Metal riffs. This is great, I love it. My only nit-picking complaint is that there isn't much variation throughout the album. It also doesn't have much lasting appeal. Even so, this is a massive step up from HI.

Rating: 7.5

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Arkhon Infaustus - Hell Injection [2001]

NICE. Chaotic beginning! I really, honestly, didn't see it coming. Cool combination of Death Metal vox with Black Metal. Well, in the end it's not all that insanely written. Not very catchy at all. Definitely kind of bland production. However, the blasphemy definitely shines through like a lighthouse beacon. It's a good album to put on in the background.

Rating: 6.5

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