The Mantle

Awesome post-metal album. Somehow the massive wall of sound brings callness in my mind

It’s not every day you listen to an album featuring a deer skull as an instrument. I dreaded the “extreme metal” moniker. Never fear, this was a moody, interesting album - great recommendation!

Great post metal album. It has a lot of variation with also impressive acoustic bits. You can hear the influence of Godspeed You! Black Emperor in the atmospheric guitar layers. Not similar to Godspeed, but a inspiring reuse of a layering method in another music genre.

I love this album and band! I was thinking about submitting it. Not enough of a variety of metal represented on the list.

Black metal, folk metal, post-metal, doom metal. Casi todo instrumental. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

I can see the link to 'Godspeed You!' and I do like that aspect of this album- the longer tracks are able to weave a tale rather than conform to the traditional 'song' structure. Not too sure of the Metal influences but I can ignore those. I also like the traditional pagan imagery and song titles. A fine album.

Expansive post-rock LP that reminded me (in a great way) of Deafheaven mixed in with some acoustic and folk elements, clear to see the influence from this in the aughts to the spacey blackgaze and post-metal of today. The LP did feel a bit diffuse throughout its considerable runtime, and I can't believe I'm saying this but I wish there were /more/ vocals to ground the tracks a little bit. Solid listen and an interesting band I'd like to hear more from.

This is a message on behalf of 1001 album users - the thing missing from the original 1001 list was not 1001 of your friend Gary’s post metal band’s albums

Not as hardcore as I had expected/hoped. More orchestral than I expected/wanted. Still fun and way better than my previous album on here: Dream Theater

Musically I thought this was a well done album. Moody, but not overly dark or heavy. Not a fan of the grittier vocal style, but it was just restrained enough to not really get irritating. Fave Songs: The Hawthorne Passage, The Lodge, ...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth, Odal, I Am the Wooden Doors

I've tried to listen to this a number of times over the years. It was first sold to me as "if you like Opeth, you'll love this". This was just after Blackwater Park came out and I was FROTHING on Opeth at the time. But it just didn't click for me. Too much Post-Rock influence maybe. It's not bad, it just isn't the masterpiece their die-hard fans think it is. Needs bigger HOOKS. 3/5.

I slept through most of this sorry

Not typically my thing but I can appreciate 3.3

Pretty good

Musically it's pretty cool, but overall just not my thing. 3 stars.

Interesting musically, lyrically didn't really get me there. The monster vocals were as usual not my cuppa and rendered the lyrics largely incomprehensible. What I could parse seemed like a typical pastiche of high fantasy, pseudo-mythology and old time religion of some under-specific sort. For all this I didn't dislike it at all, especially the more conventionally sung parts which fit the music well.

This was a pretty ominous and strong instrumental metal album. The lyrics are pretty slim and when they do come in, ai don’t love them. The instrumentals are pretty good though and the dark flow of it has a unique mood. But what’s up with metal bands and Elk or Deer? 4.7/10

I was okay with this until the 5min mark when Gollum started singing. I don’t mind the cinematic music but I found the vocals a bit silly.