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Upon first listen this will strike you as just another run of the mill Borknagar album, and in fact the first track on this Cd reminded me very much of a song that would be on their Quintessence album. However listening further into this album gives a very interesting look at Borknagar’s music and to be bluntly honest at first I absolutely and irrevocably despised this album. Being that Simen Haestnaes is my favorite Borknagar vocalist and that this album is the precursor to the absolutely masterful Quintessence I was to say the least disappointed. However I gave the album a couple more tries and found that the problem was not with the album, it was with me. Everyone in the band shows that they are indeed competent with their own respective instruments, but the interesting part about this album (and most probably the part that I despised initially) is that there are a few songs with just Simen’s clean vocals. The reasons that I disliked this are twofold, 1. Simen had yet to fully develop his singing and while I initially thought it decent it was not anything special 2. I think I was just expecting the album to be heavier. At any rate the long and short of this review is that this album is good, I may go so far as to say that it is very good. However it is not as good as Quintessence and if you listen to this album with the preconceived notion that it will be you are going to be gravely disappointed. Some great songs off of the album are thus: Oceans Rise, Universal, and Ad Noctum.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Oceans Rise |
| 2. Universal |
| 3. Witching Hour |
| 4. The Black Token |
| 5. Nocturnal Vision |
| 6. Ad Noctum |
| 7. Winter Millenium |
| 8. Fields Of Long Gone Presence |
: 37.44
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